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Originally Posted by Snapolit1
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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.