story time ...

My brother hooks up with a private seller who has AFA graded items. He already purchased an AFA'ed reissue Starscream from him, and now the seller offered a Predaking ... AFA85, for $175 shipped. He figures, what the hell ... AFA85 is HIGH.

from the AFA website
"The Silver level consists of the grades 85, 80, and 75. The figures that receive these grades are in excellent condition. A figure graded an 85 will often be referred to as 'case fresh' and should be very close to gold level condition. The term 'case fresh' is certainly justifiable as the average figure pulled from a sealed case will grade an 85 due to small flaws which occur when the figures are packaged or shipped in the case."

This is what he got in the mail ...







this is pretty bad.