A co-founder of retro game grading service WATA is now being accused of running a side business on eBay. Further investigations by Proof journalist, Seth Abramson, suggest WATA’s Mark Haspel is selling graded games under an alias.
Abramson was recently reviewing some of his previous purchases and found a note from a seller informing him how he could contact Haspel for more games. He’s also matched up addresses on parcels linked back to Haspel. At the time of the Proof report, Haspel’s account was selling 74 WATA-graded Atari 2600 games valued at around $46,000 USD.
Proof believes Haspel is selling Atari games exclusively on eBay in an attempt to go unnoticed by American journalists who have so far only focused on record-breaking Nintendo game sales. And out of all the Atari games listed, only one of them had a grade lower than 9.0 and no seal rating lower than A+….
