My Heritage auction experience - Update

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Steven, I can just tell you as the others have, that the card is consistent for the grade (SGC 30/2). Heritage gives some of the largest scans possible, just larger than just about any other auction house and even virtually all ebay listings. I really don't know anyone with consistently larger scans. However, some imperfections just do not come across in scans. I know that I scanned a card once, and when I was getting ready to ship the card to the winning buyer on ebay, I saw a surface crease that I could only see when the card was looked at from an angle. And from that angle, it was REALLY obvious. This was a graded card also. I offered to let the buyer cancel the transaction or receive a 25% discount in the price, which he decided to accept. This could be the case for this card.

This is the thing about ebay. In general, buyers love ebay for the DSR's because the general feeling is that this improves customer service. However, sellers hate it because they feel the system is being abused. In general, I still think you get better deals and better service on ebay than you do from auction houses. However, there are just some cards that you don't see on ebay (or at least not often enough) for real auctions, which is why you still end up going to auction houses.