New Ebay Authentication service

[D. Bergin]

Originally Posted by BobbyStrawberry

I cannot believe anyone is defending this. This is what eBay's "Director of Trading Cards " says about the service:

MEANS: If it doesn’t pass our authentication — which basically means the card that was actually shipped was not, in our authenticator’s opinion, the card that was listed — it gets returned to the seller, and it’s a done deal.

MEANS: We want buyers to get what they thought they were getting, we want sellers to feel confident that the buyer’s going to be happy with their purchase. At its simplest, it’s making sure that when someone buys a Kobe Bryant, they get a Kobe Bryant and they don’t accidentally get a LeBron. It prevents mistakes from happening, too, which are always frustrating.

So, let's see: The card shipped is not the card listed, and the buyer who thinks they're buying a 1951 card gets a 1935 card instead.

They can't even meet the most base level expectations of the service. What a joke.

Source: https://www.sportingnews.com/us/mlb/...914xlepioy0s5v

So in your opinion, Ebay should have returned the card to the seller and refunded the buyer?

You can just ask the buyer in this thread, if they actually thought they were getting a 1951 card.

I HATE that I'm defending Ebay here but.............

I think the spirit of the policy was fulfilled.

I still think it's a stupid service that will eventually just turn into another cash grab for Ebay.

[BobbyStrawberry]

Originally Posted by D. Bergin

So in your opinion, Ebay should have returned the card to the seller and refunded the buyer?

You can just ask the buyer in this thread, if they actually thought they were getting a 1951 card.

I HATE that I'm defending Ebay here but.............

I think the spirit of the policy was fulfilled.

I still think it's a stupid service that will eventually just turn into another cash grab for Ebay.

My point is that, according to their director's description of the service, this card should not have passed their authentication process as a 1951 Diamond Stars, which it did.

[sbfinley]

Don’t have an opinion on the service as I haven’t used it yet. Normally that’s how I treat my opinions on services. Except car washes. They are dumb. Wash your own car.... When I finally use the service I’ll provide an opinion if it’s warranted. If it’s not crazy awesome or crazy bad I probably won’t because the opinions of neutral people are boring.

The one opinion I can provide is that the fact there are near two full pages of responses of people calling the service a sham because a seller fat fingered his keyboard and mislabeled a card is idiotic. That’s my opinion. It was a legit card mislabeled. It was authentic, evidentially. Is it a cash grab? Yeah I don’t know. Will it fail spectacularly? Yes or no - one of those two or possibly maybe. Did it fail because it shipped a buyer an authentic card from a seller who has Arabic numeral dyslexia? No, that’s dumb.

[swarmee]

So what should have happened? The authenticator should have identified it as a 1934-36 Diamond Stars card, entered that into their database, and then contacted the buyer to see if that's what they wanted when they purchased the item. To declare it to be an authentic 1951 card, which it clearly is not, is against the mission of the authenticator. And they are making the assumption that the item is what the buyer intended to buy, by sending it through automatically. Because once it gets to the buyer, he cannot return it for not being authentic.

Another question is whether or not they removed it from the screwdown holder. Because the card may actually be skinned and both parts are shown. Without removing the card from the original holder, they can't readily make that determination, right? Maybe they can? But I doubt it.