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My son bought a $260 modern basketball card on ebay described as Gem Mint.

No flaws were seen in the photos and the seller sent a message saying that the card had no flaws.

Luckily the card was over the $250 amount because it failed authentication.

The seller didn't know why as he said it was Gem Mint. He told my son it was because he threw some other cards in the package for free that were not in the listing.

My son communicated with ebay and they told him the reason was there were massive indents on the card and it was not close to GEM MINT.

I've been very skeptical about the whole ebay authentication - but in this case it saved him $260. So he is grateful.