Ebay Authentication is a Comical JOKE.

[CardPadre]

Originally Posted by gnaz01

Wow!! What a @ss response!!!

I feel like I’m eavesdropping on a meeting of the Entitled Princesses Club. As an apparent member, you are oblivious to how ridiculous it really is.

[jchcollins]

Originally Posted by CardPadre

I feel like I’m eavesdropping on a meeting of the Entitled Princesses Club. As an apparent member, you are oblivious to how ridiculous it really is.

It's a pretty straightforward discussion. Not sure I understand the need for you to be so dickish in sharing your opinion either. I'm sure it's already a lesson learned for the OP.

[CardPadre]

Originally Posted by jchcollins

It's a pretty straightforward discussion. Not sure I understand the need for you to be so dickish in sharing your opinion either. I'm sure it's already a lesson learned for the OP.

It actually comes across as a discussion from an alternate reality where the OP was horribly wronged by the authenticity guarantee and every responder feels the need to blindly validate him instead of pointing out what actually happened.

[jp1216]

Looked at the images on the eBay listing. They were high enough resolution to see imperfections on the slab. The front looks fine to me and only a couple small scratches on the back. I've seen much, much worse. I'm surprised it was 'rejected' but glad you and the buyer worked it out.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/122579220930

[jchcollins]

Originally Posted by jp1216

Looked at the images on the eBay listing. They were high enough resolution to see imperfections on the slab. The front looks fine to me and only a couple small scratches on the back. I've seen much, much worse. I'm surprised it was 'rejected' but glad you and the buyer worked it out.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/122579220930

To me, the bigger issue here is that ebay is likely very inconsistent on how this rule is or is not applied across the board. I'm pretty sure that not every slab with a noticeable scratch is rejected the same as if the card were fake. To me this goes back to the ancient problem heading of ebay not ever caring to be category experts. We don't know, so we will farm out the question to someone else. And when they do this, the results are inevitably inconsistent.

[CardPadre]

Originally Posted by jp1216

Looked at the images on the eBay listing. They were high enough resolution to see imperfections on the slab. The front looks fine to me and only a couple small scratches on the back. I've seen much, much worse. I'm surprised it was 'rejected' but glad you and the buyer worked it out.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/122579220930

This…is…the…actual….problem. It has damage that doesn’t show in the listing.

The slab looks like it only suffers from minor issues in the images. It was deemed to have “significant” damage/scratching by the authenticator that was not apparent in the images.

That slab is very old and very large. Really tough to protect it from contact all those years unless it was the absolute treasure of your collection.

[jp1216]

Originally Posted by CardPadre

It has damage that doesn’t show in the listing.

You know this for a fact?

[CardPadre]

Originally Posted by jp1216

You know this for a fact?

I will say I don’t “know it”, but…I guarantee it.

You have to sheen plastics like that at an angle under light to see most surface issues. A straight on view will not show the totality of it.