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Originally Posted by thechefs2003
Found what I thought was a great deal on an RPA on ebay, placed my max bid about 3 hours before the auction ended. Got to thinking about it in the meantime about it being too good of deal and re-read the listing and sure enough it's a digital card. WTF? You see these all over ebay. Are there people that actually collect digital patch autographed cards? Or are these just sellers who are trying to pull a fast one on people like me who don't read the fine print? Luckily, I was later outbid. And if I had won, would I just have gotten a jpg or pdf file?
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The short answer is that, yes, they've turned sports cards into non-fungible tokens. And yes, the auctions sometimes confuse people who think they're getting a real card.