That new PSA/eBay deal

iwantitiwinit · #1 05-10-2022, 06:08 PM

Two questions:

1) What happens if the card gets lost in the mail between the ebay authentication point and the buyer. Is ebay on the hook for the selling price;

2) Who pays shipping between the authentication point and the buyer.

This entire thing is a cluster. Ebay is going to lose tens of thousands of listings. Disaster in my opinion.

Peter_Spaeth · #2 05-10-2022, 06:22 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by iwantitiwinit

Two questions:

1) What happens if the card gets lost in the mail between the ebay authentication point and the buyer. Is ebay on the hook for the selling price;

2) Who pays shipping between the authentication point and the buyer.

This entire thing is a cluster. Ebay is going to lose tens of thousands of listings. Disaster in my opinion.

My package is being sent Fed Ex by PSA so not a trivial expense for whoever is paying it.

D. Bergin · #3 05-10-2022, 06:45 PM

Are there certain sellers that are exempt from this slab service? Like Greg Morris is for raw cards?

BobC · #4 05-11-2022, 12:54 AM

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Originally Posted by D. Bergin

Are there certain sellers that are exempt from this slab service? Like Greg Morris is for raw cards?

It would seem not. If you're going to have PSA re-examine their own graded cards, how could Ebay look anyone in the eye and keep a straight face while telling them, "But you can trust this or that specific dealer to sell their raw cards on Ebay without a required third-party authentication."? If they did that, they'd have every other card dealer on Ebay up in arms as doing so would eventually give those dealers a price/cost disadvantage when they eventually start charging somebody for these authentication services.

Lorewalker · #5 05-11-2022, 01:12 AM

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Originally Posted by D. Bergin

Are there certain sellers that are exempt from this slab service? Like Greg Morris is for raw cards?

No seller is exempt on sales of graded cards over 2K and if they are they are not saying anything. I suspect the price point will be lowered shortly to 1K too.

To other points made, how can this be something a seller should pay for? The seller has already paid for an opinion on the graded card, assuming they submitted it. Frankly if it is an assurance being provided to a buyer it would reason it should be their cost. Most buyers do not even want it for free, from those I have chatted with.

My feeling is that it is a cost that eBay should absorb since this is more about keeping their site as safe for users as possible. We all no no corporation will pass up a chance to pass the cost onto the little guy.

steve B · #6 05-11-2022, 10:08 AM

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Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth

My package is being sent Fed Ex by PSA so not a trivial expense for whoever is paying it.

It may not be as big an expense as it seems.

Pre 2000 I had a customer for one summer that was really big. They were doing integrated supply before it was a thing, and while "just in time delivery" was the fad.

They went to all the small package shipping companies for a quote based on the winner getting 100% of their business .... $40 Million a year... As a win it all or lose whatever piece you currently get
UPS - We don't give discounts.
DHL- 5% or some similar trivial amount.
FedEx - If you send all small packages priority one, we'll do that for a bit less than UPS ground

At the time, a sub 1lb package cost me 15+ by FedEx, and a bit over 3 UPS ground.

I don't know if they're still doing stuff like that, but PSA probably has similar volume.

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