What is Ebay Playing At?

[The Detroit Collector]

Originally Posted by raulus

My understanding is that some goons are faking slabs, or replacing cards with lesser graded pieces and resealing them. So this protects from that.

As a seller, it also prevents a buyer from claiming that you didn’t ship the right card and demanding a refund.

As a buyer, it prevents the seller from shipping garbage and claiming they shipped the $100,000 card that you actually purchased.

Assuming it’s done right (admittedly a big assumption), it should help to reduce goons from committing fraud.

99% of the time, pre slabbed stuff is legit, however there are people who fake slab cards. Don't think in terms of vintage, think in terms of modern cards. There has been a lot of issues over the last few years of duplicate 1/1s or cards with different patches, or fake jordans getting slabbed. etc.