can you clarify what the ’empty carts’ were? im wondering why its worth $800 less if the rom was available.
and like bill cosby would say, ‘the proof is in the pudding’. look at the prices of the rare games, water world and jack bros. the rares dropped without the roms being released, water world slowly sank (no pun intended) but i doubt it was due to the rom, and jack bros keeps going up in value regardless of the rom being out.
we have to acknowledge the fact that there arent a ton of hardcore VB collectors out there and although the supply gets thinner, it often happens that people lose interest and prices drop.
i agree that the roms dont affect the price. what about jack bros? the price of that has been rising over the last couple of years even though the rom has been out for ages. and the prices of the rare games have been dropping for years before the roms were released. values change. the rom has little to do with that.
looking at the image further, those stickers look a little aged. also, the fact that the pin is bent cant really be seen as it being fake. he probably got these from somewhere else, but that doesn’t mean they are fakes. even still, thats way too much money for me to spend.