More on ebay's mysterious authentication program

[Mrc32]

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.

[Wynn0013]

More of the same, I picked up a (PSA) Shonen postcard on Ebay and it was "miscategorized" as a sports trading card so they weren't able to authenticate it. The email does say they are still sending me the item.

[BioCRN]

So many issues could be solved with EBay sending a message that there is an issue, what the issue is, and whether you would like to complete the transaction given the "new" information.

The chance of any sketchy things happening with full disclosure and the authentication party completing the shipping is nearly nonexistent at this point.