new low for the ebay authenticity thing

[Buythatcard]

Actual photo of the eBay Vault.

[Yoda]

I don't man to belabor a subject that has been examined backwards and forwards.......but. I just received a beautiful raw '65 Topps Yogi bought from Greg Morris. Rather than the usual nice, easily-opened envelopes from Greg, I received one of those flat Ebay packages that are guaranteed to produce a cut when opening with a box cutter. There was Yogi ungraded with all the usual crap, including the prized purple sticker.
I am going to send Larry to SGC for grading and in a courageous act of valor
am going to remove the prized sticker. Aren't I brave?
A couple of points I am pondering:-
1. I thought the authentication service was for graded cards to see if the case had been tampered with.
2. Where is Ebay sending cards, SCG. Ebay or Jupiter?
3. Whoever thought of this dumb idea should be ex-communicated.

[G1911]

Originally Posted by Yoda

I don't man to belabor a subject that has been examined backwards and forwards.......but. I just received a beautiful raw '65 Topps Yogi bought from Greg Morris. Rather than the usual nice, easily-opened envelopes from Greg, I received one of those flat Ebay packages that are guaranteed to produce a cut when opening with a box cutter. There was Yogi ungraded with all the usual crap, including the prized purple sticker.
I am going to send Larry to SGC for grading and in a courageous act of valor
am going to remove the prized sticker. Aren't I brave?
A couple of points I am pondering:-
1. I thought the authentication service was for graded cards to see if the case had been tampered with.
2. Where is Ebay sending cards, SCG. Ebay or Jupiter?
3. Whoever thought of this dumb idea should be ex-communicated.

Raw cards over the threshold go to CSG. Graded cards go to PSA, who look only at the holder and not the card (we all know what matters )

[D. Bergin]

Kind of concerning that these cards appear to be getting shipped back out in sub-optimal packaging.

Who gets left holding the bag in a case of damage from the authentication facility to the end user...particularly in the case of the over-sized SGC slab, shipped from PSA to the buyer, a couple posts up?

I've bought relatively few graded cards from other sellers compared to most here, but have bought enough to know, it doesn't take a whole lot to crack a PSA or SGC slab in shipping.

[Leon]

Originally Posted by G1911

Raw cards over the threshold go to CSG. Graded cards go to PSA, who look only at the holder and not the card (we all know what matters )

What is the threshold? I think I am getting a raw card sent straight to me that cost almost 3k.
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[G1911]

Originally Posted by Leon

What is the threshold? I think I am getting a raw card sent straight to me that cost almost 3k.
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For raw cards, it's $250 or more that the seller is given CSG's address to ship to. If it's going straight to you, it probably has "set" in the title of the listing. There's a few tricks in the keywords to dodge the program (though some sellers are surely just using those words without knowing that's the result).

[Leon]

Originally Posted by G1911

For raw cards, it's $250 or more that the seller is given CSG's address to ship to. If it's going straight to you, it probably has "set" in the title of the listing. There's a few tricks in the keywords to dodge the program (though some sellers are surely just using those words without knowing that's the result).

There is nothing in the title like that. It must be something else. It's going to be sent to CSG as soon as I get it anyway....
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[Pat R]

Originally Posted by Leon

There is nothing in the title like that. It must be something else. It's going to be sent to CSG as soon as I get it anyway....
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Hey Leon, as I posted above that I've purchased raw and graded cards above the threshold (nothing 3k) and I haven't had any of them go through the process, an earlier poster said that someone in customer service told them that they don't go through the process if they're sent to a PO box. That doesn't make any sense but I've had a couple of raw cards $500+ and a graded $800
card in the past two weeks that were sent directly to me.

[chadeast]

Originally Posted by G1911

For raw cards, it's $250 or more that the seller is given CSG's address to ship to. If it's going straight to you, it probably has "set" in the title of the listing. There's a few tricks in the keywords to dodge the program (though some sellers are surely just using those words without knowing that's the result).

There's also the "Available for local pickup" trick that I've seen, if you allow that then it apparently bypasses the authentication as well.

[Dead-Ball-Hitter]

Originally Posted by Buythatcard

Actual photo of the eBay Vault.

Lol love it Howard