Nobody involved cares about the game.
What happens is you sell it to yourself, thus “proving” it’s worth that much, then sell it to some schmuck who thinks the value will be increasing in time.
… And money laundering. I want to pay you to do a crime. You do the crime. Now you can’t put “earned by crime” in the sheet for the IRS (actually you can) and thus we find something you own that is that much money worth to me. But IRS knows all the tricks in the book, so we both need something very “rare” and a corruptable appraiser and now I can buy that “rare” game you never unpacked from your childhood at that price. And badabing badaboom, money laundered. Ah also all my other criminal friends now can use this rare collectors item as a vehicle to get payed by me because its reusable. And now you also understand most of the art trade.
Nobody involved cares about the game. What happens is you sell it to yourself, thus “proving” it’s worth that much, then sell it to some schmuck who thinks the value will be increasing in time.
… And money laundering. I want to pay you to do a crime. You do the crime. Now you can’t put “earned by crime” in the sheet for the IRS (actually you can) and thus we find something you own that is that much money worth to me. But IRS knows all the tricks in the book, so we both need something very “rare” and a corruptable appraiser and now I can buy that “rare” game you never unpacked from your childhood at that price. And badabing badaboom, money laundered. Ah also all my other criminal friends now can use this rare collectors item as a vehicle to get payed by me because its reusable. And now you also understand most of the art trade.