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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