It's also a lesson in not putting all your eggs in one basket. Shipping these out incrementally, and via a system that has the proper insurance in place, would have been a better move. Hindsight and all that.
I hate that blame is being placed on him for the shipping. He was doing me the favor. It was my fault for requesting so many games to be sent at once.
Anyway, I'm very happy that the games got to you eventually.
They just keep getting more and more insane.
Even two years ago when I bought Iron Commando for the Super Famicom, the $240 asking price was insane. It's at $1500 now for a complete copy. I passed on Pokonyan for $100, thinking that was too high, and a year and a half later ended up paying $800 for it.
How many years can the prices keep doubling like this? How can anyone afford to collect these games at these prices?
The whole thing feels like a giant hyper-inflated bubble.
Maybe it's just me but I don't really trust the regular postal service with anything, and if there's no other option, super-duper insurance is the order of the day.
Anyway, what a project this will be. Hopefully you can get it completed without any more unnecessary drama.
insurance is a scam, especially with USPS. You can't just say "this package is worth $10k to me". They will let you buy $10k worth of insurance, but if you go make the claim, only then do they say "ok, you said it was worth $10k, now prove it". If you can't show a catalog, or a preponderance of evidence that the item was worth what you said, they simply won't pay.