New Ebay Authentication service

[Buythatcard]

If I sell a card for over $750, I will now have to get it authenticated by eBay. Instead of arriving in 3 - 4 days at the buyers residence, it will now arrive in a week or two.

What happens if I have an impatient buyer who now blames me for the delay in receiving his card? What prevents him from leaving Negative feedback because it took too long for the card to arrive from eBay's authentication process? Will eBay still allow buyers to leave a negative due to the delay in receiving their card?

[Jim65]

Originally Posted by Buythatcard

If I sell a card for over $750, I will now have to get it authenticated by eBay. Instead of arriving in 3 - 4 days at the buyers residence, it will now arrive in a week or two.

What happens if I have an impatient buyer who now blames me for the delay in receiving his card? What prevents him from leaving Negative feedback because it took too long for the card to arrive from eBay's authentication process? Will eBay still allow buyers to leave a negative due to the delay in receiving their card?

I'm sure Ebay will remove that negative, they removed tons of slow shipping negatives during the pandemic.

[icurnmedic]

Originally Posted by Jim65

I'm sure Ebay will remove that negative, they removed tons of slow shipping negatives during the pandemic.

Definitely not my experience pre pandemic. One of several reasons I quit selling on eBay.
Post Pandemic, maybe, but definitely not pre.
Thomas

[Jim65]

Originally Posted by icurnmedic

Definitely not my experience pre pandemic. One of several reasons I quit selling on eBay.
Post Pandemic, maybe, but definitely not pre.
Thomas

During the pandemic, mail was incredibly slow because of lack of employees. Thats why Ebay removed negatives when sellers asked.

Why would Ebay remove negatives for slow shipping, before the pandemic? There were some delays as always, but it was not the system wide problem that it later became.

[JustinD]

Originally Posted by Buythatcard

If I sell a card for over $750, I will now have to get it authenticated by eBay. Instead of arriving in 3 - 4 days at the buyers residence, it will now arrive in a week or two.

What happens if I have an impatient buyer who now blames me for the delay in receiving his card? What prevents him from leaving Negative feedback because it took too long for the card to arrive from eBay's authentication process? Will eBay still allow buyers to leave a negative due to the delay in receiving their card?

I think this will be the crux of problems with this also. I don't mind personally but I think it will bring a bunch of negs from long arrival times.

The general public can usually be confidently relied on to be moronic.

[Exhibitman]

Originally Posted by JustinD

I think this will be the crux of problems with this also. I don't mind personally but I think it will bring a bunch of negs from long arrival times.

The general public can usually be confidently relied on to be moronic.

[Kris19]

Update:
The seller mailed the card on Monday. Today, I received the following email from eBay

Hi Kris,
Our authentication partner received your item from the seller but, unfortunately, it didn’t pass inspection. We assess items covered by Authenticity Guarantee against the highest standards, and reject items for a variety of reasons, including damaged packaging, missing accessories, not matching the seller’s description, or an inability to confirm authenticity.

I also received a notice from PayPal stating I received a full refund.

So, from the day the seller finally mailed the card, it only took 4 days (and most of that was USPS). The success of the program will be determined over the long term, but in this case, they certainly met expectations.

[swarmee]

Originally Posted by Kris19

Update:
The seller mailed the card on Monday. Today, I received the following email from eBay

That is excellent. Thanks for running the test.

[swarmee]

Kris,
Can you check regularly to see if eBay removes the seller from their site? Wondering if 1 or multiple fakes being passed as real finally gets eBay to ban these fraudsters.

[Kris19]

Will do. Unfortunately, he sold four other fake cards to other buyers for under $750 shortly after I explained the program to him. I’m sure it was just a coincidence that he priced them under $750, although the value of the same legitimate card is much higher.

The good news is that he currently does not have any cards listed, just a few non-card items.

[jayshum]

Originally Posted by Kris19

Update:
The seller mailed the card on Monday. Today, I received the following email from eBay

Hi Kris,
Our authentication partner received your item from the seller but, unfortunately, it didn’t pass inspection. We assess items covered by Authenticity Guarantee against the highest standards, and reject items for a variety of reasons, including damaged packaging, missing accessories, not matching the seller’s description, or an inability to confirm authenticity.

I also received a notice from PayPal stating I received a full refund.

So, from the day the seller finally mailed the card, it only took 4 days (and most of that was USPS). The success of the program will be determined over the long term, but in this case, they certainly met expectations.

Kris, was the card you purchased something you expected to fail the authenticity check?

[Kris19]

Originally Posted by jayshum

Kris, was the card you purchased something you expected to fail the authenticity check?

Hi Jay! Yes, as I estimated in post #56 in this thread, I was 99.9% sure it was fake. Just wanted to test out the authentication program and timing.

[Sean1125]

Thought this might be pertinent to add...

They literally didn't tape the box that they sent. Just closed lid with a label. Anyone along the way could have opened it. Luckily everything arrived in tact.