ebay authenticity guarantee limits now 250/750

[Snapolit1]

Originally Posted by BobC

Exactly, it isn't solely about PSA, CSG and card or slab authentication. It is a means to an end for them, to keep customers and sellers happy and coming back.

https://pages.ebay.com/authenticity-guarantee-seller/

[BobC]

Originally Posted by Snapolit1

https://pages.ebay.com/authenticity-guarantee-seller/

Exactly Steve, I think the authentication programs are to fend off customer concerns for fakes and bad sellers, and possibly weed out at least some of the bad/fake sellers at the same time. Keeps customer confidence strong, and helps the legit sellers want to stick around as well since this can potentially help them against scam buyers trying to rip honest sellers off.

And if Ebay eventually gets to make a little bit in doing so, they aren't going to turn it down obviously. I'm just not so sure, as some others seem to be, that profit is one of their main motives in doing this, unless you're talking about the continuing profit from having sellers and buyers on their platform. I'm referring to the idea of this authentication program for the cards necessarily being a new profit center for them as the main reason for doing it.

[Snapolit1]

Seems to me that if eBay imposes a fee for this at some point it would have to be something the buyer elects (check the box) and shoulders the cost of. How could you force this upon a buyer and seller who decline to get involved? Doesn't seem possible.

Ebay is Satan's spawn because of the fraud and they don't seem to give a crap.

Ebay is Satan's spawn in trial testing a system to try to deal with fraud.

Some of youse guyze ain't easy to please.

[Jewish-collector]

I've always been surprised Amazon never really gotten more heavily involved in sports cards auctions & sales. They could run ebay out of business if they wanted to.