A sealed and near-flawless boxed transcript of Pokemon Yellow was precocious reported to person been wholly obliterated by US customs, and the collector who paid respective 1000 dollars for the crippled is understandably upset by the "senseless damage." 

Last week, we wrote astir the demolition of a collectible mentation of Pokemon Yellow worthy anyplace betwixt $4,000 and $10,000. The copy, which boasted a 9.2 standing from grading experts WATA, had its case, seal, and container destroyed arsenic it went done shipping, slashing its value.

We reached retired to the game's caller owner, the_master_of_unlocking, to inquire astir their effect to the game's destruction. "My archetypal absorption was 1 of shock, naturally. It was truly disappointing and disheartening seeing the senseless harm done to the game." The harm to the lawsuit was of small wide importance, but "destroying the crippled container seem[ed] a measurement excessively far, considering determination were alternate methods to opening the game's cardboard container that didn't impact cutting the beforehand wholly off."

The_master_of_unlocking says that they began collecting astir 20 years ago, focusing chiefly connected the SNES, Sega Genesis, and Neo Geo systems "with an accent connected the champion and traditionally uncommon titles." While they described their important attraction to detail, they admitted that they had been starting to trim down their collection: "As I person gotten older I had little clip to subordinate these once-cherished games and I needed to simplify my life. Recently, I started to cull galore of my things and conscionable clasp connected to a fewer items that are important to me."

That included Pokemon Yellow. "I was thoroughly entranced," they said of the game. Unfortunately, the_master_of_unlocking says that they'd "regretfully fixed up a mint transcript of the crippled years earlier and were trying to unafraid a near-mint transcript for show connected my bureau desk. I wanted thing that reminded maine of the simpler times successful my life." That led them to this peculiar copy, which was adjacent to the marketplace rate, the beneficiary of a adjuvant currency conversion betwixt Canada and the US, and successful bully condition.

The archetypal daze upon receiving the damaged goods rapidly led to anger: "I americium mostly a reserved and calm idiosyncratic but determination were immoderate WTFs flying astir that time for sure." From there, enactment to retrieve the costs began. The_master_of_unlocking says they're moving with the seller (who has been "both communicative and collaborative arsenic we enactment to resoluteness this incident" and is "just arsenic disappointed by this result arsenic I am") and their recognition paper company, but those efforts are ongoing. 

While the crippled was shipped by UPS, "by default that offers precise small extortion unless you tin beryllium that the bearer was astatine fault." With nary security successful spot and UPS precise overmuch not astatine fault, anticipation would look to prevarication with PayPal's claims process, particularly since the_master_of_unlocking says they person nary plans to get successful interaction with either the airdrome oregon US customs, astatine slightest until the claims process is over.

Speaking of Pokemon Yellow, find retired if it placed successful our best Pokemon games list.