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Video Game Grading House WATA Told the New York Times That Its Employees Can't Sell WATA-Graded Games Due to Conflicts of Interest. So Why Did One of Its SEC-Listed Co-Founders Just Sell Me Three?
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Video Game Grading House WATA Told the New York Times That Its Employees Can't Sell WATA-Graded Games Due to Conflicts of Interest. So Why Did One of Its SEC-Listed Co-Founders Just Sell Me Three?

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Sep 01, 2021
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ABOVE: Three of WATA’s co-founders: Mark Haspel (l), Deniz Kahn (c), and Kenneth Thrower (r). Richard Lecce (unpictured) also claims to be a co-founder.

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As this author has written many times before, during the pandemic he became a casual collector of sealed and graded retro video games—though not (to be very clear, not ever) a seller of these…

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