RAD wrote:
I’m lucky to buy games to play with.
So I can ignore all “factory sealed” or “OVP” (in Germany) auctions on ebay…Have fun!
I play games too, but I don’t mind having a few sealed games to display. Once again, you’re usually pretty safe if there’s an H-seam, especially if there is a small fold in the shrink wrap on the edges of the H-Seam on the sides of the box (much harder to reproduce at home).
A home made H-seam involves creating an extra seam by sealing two sheets together, unfolding the sealed sheets and aligning the seam across the rear center of the box, and using an additional sheet for the front side. The results can be very convincing though at first glance, unfortunately.
A home-made H-seam’ed cart will still have seams going around all the edged of the cart, where a factory sealed H-Seam cart will only have seems on the sides, not the top and bottom. Of course, if said console uses a vertical factory H-seam, the seems will be on the top and bottom, but not the sides.
I do suppose it is possible to make a home-made H-seam with seems only on the sides, but it would be a much more daunting task.
(and sorry for all the edits. 😎 )
And to show how ridiculous that auction is, I took 5 minutes to reseal my vertical force, and I took the time to create an H-Seam with shrinkwrap before sealing the game. :rolleyes
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RAD wrote:
RidingHero schrieb:
RE-SEALED Jack Bros (U) on eBay being sold as new. No factory H-Seam. :thumpdown:I don’t know what a H-Seam is or what its look like…
Do you have pictures of a real factory sealed game :question:
Here’s a virtual baseball, factory sealed with an H-Seam:
