Someone stole those games.
If there's one rare enough, they can watch eBay or other online sites for it. Criminals are stupid, maybe they'll get lucky.
Someone stole those games.
Why didn't the collector dump the carts?
USPS seems borderline criminal with how they handle lost postage. At the very least, it's incredibly unprofessional and should be subject of some type of BBB review.
I think USPS was the ONE time I started yelling at an employee, ever.
They did, but not for the full value.
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Unfortunately, USPS loses shit all the time. Even if it's less than 1/1000 that's still thousands of parcels a day. If something is worth lots of money, you insure it for the full amount that it would take to replace. I just shipped about $2,000 worth of Magic: the Gathering cards yesterday. I over insured them by $50 just to be safe (and more so to have a round number). It cost me about $30 in total to ship the package 2-day. Was it a lot of money to ship a package? Absolutely, but it's nice to know that I'm not stuck holding the bag if the package is lost.
that says more about nintendo that they're okay with spotty roms to sell back to people tbhSecond hand ROM rips are good enough for Nintendo
this is all kinds stopid
As someone who has sent a bunch of games only for the package to arrive with a few games missing, I don't find anything shady about this.Seems shady. Seen enough shit in my life to doubt the credibility of this story.
USPS had absolutely bashed my last few big packages, they brought to me, to death. I don't know what is wrong with them now days.
Very likely.
Better courrier? I have had more damaged parcels, late parcels, and drivers sitting in front of my house writing up sorry we missed you slips instead ok knocking because my car was in the garage from UPS and FedEx.I would never risk 10k worth of rare games over regular postal services.
That happened to me once. From USA, to Philippines, back to USA, and then finally to Peru. The worst part was that they didn't bother updating the tracking information all the time the package was lost on Philippines until it was back on the USA so I didn't know where the fuck it was for months.Considering what I've heard of Yodel I wouldn't even trust the tracking one bit and so the whole "it has to be in New Jersey, it arrived there" might be a red herring though sometimes it's better not to know as I've also seen when these international shipments go horribly wrong and end up on some massive detours.
Delivery couriers the world over are a law unto themselves
Did they not insure that package? If you're shipping almost $10k of games, it seems beyond foolish to not have crazy insurance.
Well that sucks. Why are so many people saying it's an inside job though?
For a bunch of old Snes/Super Famicom games? I mean, that's several generations back at this point. So unless some Neogaffer who's way into collecting them happened to work for USPS and managed to conspire and steal them, i'm going to go with it simply got misplaced.
I love a good conspiracy, but this is kinda pushing it.
Wow... I work for USPS at one of the call centers
Delivery couriers the world over are a law unto themselves
With USPS, you get what you pay for. They're cheap for a reason. If something is of high importance, I never ever go with them. Pay the extra money and use UPS or FedEx. They still have their downs, but they are far more reliable than USPS.
Fox the Sly, eh?/s
Probably going to end up in a local shop or on ebay. Shit doesn't get "lost".