What to do - Ebay Authentication Process/Possible Reprint

[icurnmedic]

No chance I’m keeping that without the guarantee. I mean dangit man, they have been sending all my stuff even graded to the authentication. I actually don’t mind that but should have happened for you.

[Harliduck]

Yes, that's not an option. No way I am just going to keep this and stand down.

I've read you can't opt out of the authentication...did I miss something where I needed to sign up for it? Or should this be automatic? Still no idea why it went directly to me.

[raulus]

Originally Posted by Harliduck

Yes, that's not an option. No way I am just going to keep this and stand down.

I've read you can't opt out of the authentication...did I miss something where I needed to sign up for it? Or should this be automatic? Still no idea why it went directly to me.

It should be automatic.

The original listing certainly has the authenticity guarantee seal, so it sure seems like it should have gone to the authenticator. The usual process is when the seller prints the mailing label, the address line has your name, a code, and the authenticator's actual mailing address. So under the standard process, the seller couldn't send it directly to you even if they wanted to.

I'm not seeing anything in the listing that would eliminate the AG process, so the only thing I can surmise is that the eBay algorithms somehow failed when they gave your seller the mailing address for shipping.

[MINES_MINT]

Have you contacted ebay? Perhaps they would send you a shipping label so that your card can go through the Authentication process as promised.

[Pat R]

If your mailing address is a PO box it doesn't go through the authentication process.

[Harliduck]

Originally Posted by Pat R

If your mailing address is a PO box it doesn't go through the authentication process.

Pat R is correct.

I called ebay and just found that out. I use a PO Box (tired of getting my mail stolen!!!)

I'm going to just send the card back and take my return. Funny, the ebay agent said they would have backed me if he didn't take the return...he said the onus would have been on him to prove it's authentic to negate a return. This new policy of Authentication isn't to protect the buyer, it protects Ebay...

Learn something new every day. My lesson...any big cards that need Authentication I send to an address...if I want to skip their Authentication for a graded card, ship to my PO...lol.

[BobC]

Originally Posted by Harliduck

Pat R is correct.

I called ebay and just found that out. I use a PO Box (tired of getting my mail stolen!!!)

I'm going to just send the card back and take my return. Funny, the ebay agent said they would have backed me if he didn't take the return...he said the onus would have been on him to prove it's authentic to negate a return. This new policy of Authentication isn't to protect the buyer, it protects Ebay...

Learn something new every day. My lesson...any big cards that need Authentication I send to an address...if I want to skip their Authentication for a graded card, ship to my PO...lol.

Isn't one of, if not the, main reason they don't use the authentication process if you have a P.O. box is because a signature is required when your item is delivered? Another way Ebay can protect themselves, more so than the buyer or seller.

[brianp-beme]

Originally Posted by Pat R

If your mailing address is a PO box it doesn't go through the authentication process.

That is what I have heard as well. If you have a PO Box and want to make a similar type of purchase that you are not 100% confident about, I suggest you temporarily change your delivery address to your home address on Ebay so that it can go through their authentication process.

Brian

[brianp-beme]

I don't type fast enough.

Brian

[sbfinley]

Originally Posted by Pat R

If your mailing address is a PO box it doesn't go through the authentication process.

I use a P.O. Box and have received a half dozen cards from the authentication service.

[Pat R]

Originally Posted by sbfinley

I use a P.O. Box and have received a half dozen cards from the authentication service.

Well that's interesting you are the first person that I know of who has their ebay purchases shipped to a PO box who has had an item go through the authentication process.

When they first started the program I purchased a card that was supposed to go through the process and because of that it said there would be a delay in the shipping. I was surprised when I received the card in the mail three days later so I checked their terms and conditions and found out why. I have purchased 20+ cards that had the Guarantee and all of them were shipped directly to me.

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[gonefishin]

Back in February I sold a raw Tom Brady card for $400. I was expecting it to ship to the Guarantee program, but didn't. I don't know why. Normally, the default address when you ship a card that meets the monetary limit it requires you to send the card to the Guarantee address. It didn't in my case with the Brady.

Maybe the process has changed. At some point the guarantee service is going to revert to "Pay for Guarantee" program. Maybe they are just starting. It sounds like the seller has been straight up with you so far.

I'm assuming that now you have the card you have done your due diligence for authenticity, i.e. check the transparency, check the size, check the print dots. If the print dots are a match, in MOST cases it is real.