That new PSA/eBay deal

[Snapolit1]

Originally Posted by Leon

Ebay needs to put a sticker on the slabbed cards they re-authenticate. Maybe a nifty red sticker or an ebay logo? I have always said this hobby needs more stickers!
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What ever happened to purple sticker guy? Haven't seen much from him.

[jchcollins]

All this stuff is highly entertaining to me. I saw an obviously fake '57 Koufax for sale on ebay last night at a price that triggers the authentication. Not that it will sell, but hopefully if so these kinds of practices will finally weed out some of the longtime bad apples.

Now, if ebay could be convinced to care about cards to the point where they would stop trying to sell me $200K Jose Uribe cards in my Facebook feed - that would be something.

[timzcardz]

Read the article.

My head is spinning.

Can't wait for my grandson to start riding a bike so that I can put PSA graded cards in his spokes! Makes as much sense to me as some of what is going on.

Or maybe I'm just getting old.

[molenick]

I can kind of see this for raw cards. But if you have to do this for cards graded by another TPG, it seems like it would hurt the value of cards graded by these services. I collect both PSA and SGC cards...which I guess is good news if I want a type card and may be able to get an SGC one cheaper. But bad news when selling SGC cards. Or has the PSA/SGC differential pretty much already been factored into pricing?

[Yoda]

Between Baker's verification stickers and the tie-ups between AHs and TPGers,
what used to be a relatively straightforward hobby has become waay to complicated and confusing. For someone interested in entering the vintage card market, it has to be a put-off.