One of these days I would LOVE to take pictures of all sorts of original vs.
re-shrinked wrap, but unfortunately I don't have the time. :-( Suffice it to
say that the ones where the box was put on upside down is MOST DEFINITELY a
re-wrap. I worked in Babbage's and Egghead in the late 1980s and early 1990s
and my co-workers did that routinely (pissed me off to the point where I would
crack the wrap on them and re-wrap them properly).
Something that has been re-wrapped should have rough or uneven
seams/lines/edges where the wrap halves were burnt together.
Stefan Lindblom wrote:
Howdy strangers!
Alright, I think I need a serious lesson about this whole reshrinking
business. I just came home from the post office, with 5 shrinked SSI
games. 4 goldbox games, of which Pools of Darkness was of real
importance since I didnt have it shrinked before. I stand here confused
though, cause I smell a rat.
I carefully go over the wraps on the goldbox games, compare them to each
other, and come to some conclusions. One of the games was Gateway, and
that one looks genuinely wrapped. It has the orange HD disk drive req
sticker, a round blue ibm sticker, a Get-a-way sticker, and some kind of
.um.. anti-theft thing? Anyway, that looks ok, as it should be. I check
the sides of the box. And there are no.. hmm.. line? I need to improve
my English :(
On some of my SSI games, there appears to be 2 halves glued together
on each of the long sides of the box. Yet on this one, it appears to be
more or less a whole wrapping pulled over the box. It has that little
folding thing on the two short sides(ie up and down on the box).
Am I making any sense here?
Anyway, the Pools box have those splits on the long sides, as does
several of the other goldbox games I have since before. Pools have
another issue as well though... and this drives me crazy. I guess most
of you know what a goldbox looks like. It consists of two pieces, a
bottom and a top(lid) piece. Well, in this case one of the pieces has
been placed upside down! Imagine how that looks :(
One of the other sealed games, also with the splits at the long sides,
was in a really worn shape, impossibly worn for a sealed game. Sigh..
Anyway, I am sure most of you have at least a few goldbox games. But
could someone who is as dedicated to them as I am give me some feedback
here? I would like to hear something about this before I bring out my
axe and contact the seller of these.
Yours truly :)
/Stefan
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