ebay authenticity program glitch?

[Smanzari]

Originally Posted by swarmee

Are most of those PO Boxes or International? Those are both exempt from the AG.

No; actually can't recall whenever I've sent one to a PO Box. Last one that "skipped" was a Wolverine card, ended at ~$810 and went straight to the buyer (East Coast IIRC)

What's weird is there were 4 cards over 2 days from that auction that ended over $250, and only one went to the Authenticators and it was the only one that wasn't "a card" (plexiglass). Two went straight to buyers, one international, one authenticators.

[jjbond]

I was interested in 2 cards, each required ebay's authentication. I made an offer for both, and the buyer ended the 2 auctions, and made a new combined auction for me at the lower price. Both cards ended up being shipped directly to me.

[JustinD]

Originally Posted by jjbond

I was interested in 2 cards, each required ebay's authentication. I made an offer for both, and the buyer ended the 2 auctions, and made a new combined auction for me at the lower price. Both cards ended up being shipped directly to me.

He turned it into a lot and therefore removed it from the program as it was multiple cards.

[Yoda]

"These are the times that try mens' souls."

[jjbond]

Originally Posted by JustinD

He turned it into a lot and therefore removed it from the program as it was multiple cards.

Which again makes no sense. 1 card might be fishy, but no one would sell *two* fake cards at the same time?

[swarmee]

Originally Posted by jjbond

Which again makes no sense. 1 card might be fishy, but no one would sell *two* fake cards at the same time?

Sure they would. Did he combine the listing because you asked for combined shipping? The second listing should not have had the Authenticity Guarantee checkmark on it when you purchased.

[Misunderestimated]

The problem Peter identified above -- PSA verifying/authenticating cards graded/authenticated by its competitors (SGC BGS etc) -- is a significant. I think its an invitation for mischief. Why would PSA want to make their competitors look anything but bad...,.I just (today) sold an obscure Cuban issue (a booklet page) that SGC graded (authentic) that PSA would probably not grade. I haven't seen any graded by PSA and the item in question may not meet a common definition of "card."

https://www.ebay.com/itm/204455457982


So I'm shipping it to PSA to authenticate (or whatever). I actually did not know about this until it happened ... I wasn't up on how the guarantee worked with respect to non-PSA cards -- I don't sell much anymore and recently I've only sold PSA cards . So judging from what I just read above this could be a mess. I wonder how PSA would treat (for example) a Football Exhibit card from 1948-50 when PSA doesn't grade them but SGC does. Or maybe some Star basketball card from the 1980s that BGS graded that PSA has not yet decided to grade.

[swarmee]

PSA is not regrading or verifying already graded cards.

THEY ARE ONLY VERIFYING THAT THE SLAB HAS NOT BEEN TAMPERED WITH.