[OhioLawyerF5]

Originally Posted by JJ McGraw

Ok, wrong category, makes sense, but what doesn’t make sense is the following. Literally at 1:49 this afternoon, I got an email from eBay that my 1949 Leaf Premium of Christy Mathewson was authenticated and would be heading to me soon( I hope , since I bought it on Oct 2). I guess I never paid attention to the category as I’m just searching on eBay for certain players, teams etc, but since you brought it up that the Cobb premium may be in the wrong category and hence a possible reason for it’s rejection, I wanted to see what category my 1949 Leaf premium , which isn’t a card , no number, thin paper , etc etc…..it was in the exact category as the Cobb premium……Sports Trading Cards>Single Cards( see below).

So, at best, it’s arbitrary, at the mercy or whim of whoever or whatever is dealing with the particular item.If someone buys my former sellers Babe Ruth, shown below, to me, based on this, has a 50-50 chance of it being authenticated….or not.

And finally, as a collector of baseball cards and memorabilia for more decades than I’d like to admit, even though folks may not consider these different premiums as cards, I , at least , collect them as such. Many, like the Sports Pix and the 1949 Leaf Premiums , have a check list , some, like the great collector Orlando (A Collector’s Dream on you tube), collect all of the set ( citing his many videos on Leaf Premiums which are outstanding to watch and to learn from)

So, on this one , I’m going with there is no set rule, or if there is, it definitely is arbitrary.

Am I upset , belching the fumes of hatred towards the eBay Authentification system, wanting the authenticator that rejected mine put on the rack per the days of the Spanish Inquisition…..no, far from it. I just think we have to be honest about systems that entities have, like eBay, that still are flawed. Maybe they do need to recognize premiums as cards. At the end of the day, Ty is slowly making his way to home plate and I’ll be happy to greet him when he gets there.

It will be interesting to know what happens when he sells the Babe Premium.

One thing to remember is that I'm just guessing if it is the sports card category that was the problem. Far more often, when I see a "miscategorized" rejection it is because an actual error by the seller. There are several categories the seller must include in a listing from the drop down menus, such as graded/raw, which sport, etc... And a simple misclick in any one of those can result in authentication failure. We can't know that without seeing the full listing. But I've probably seen a dozen threads like this in the past year where once the poster shares the listing, we find out where the error was right away.

Edit: it appears you posted the listing. I couldn't see it on my phone. So I'm not sure what the error was, but hopefully someone can figure it out.