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eBay Launches Mandatory Card Authentication Service for Pokemon and Other TCGs
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Eh, as long as it doesn’t affect people buying cards for gameplay purposes then I’m fine with it. Collectors are getting more and more ravenous these days.
To be fair you could say that for a bunch of other collectables as well, although that part is only applicable to US sellers due to a new tax law affecting money-handling businesses like PayPal, Mercari, Zelle, and Venmo.
I think they should lower the cost from $750 to 100-250, because nobody would buy a card for $500 that’s ungraded.
Also it would be interesting to know if you can send in cards that are under the price limit.
Also it would be interesting to know if you can send in cards that are under the price limit.
This is absolutely the best thing to happen to TCG collecting in ages! As a eBay seller dealing with almost a hundred orders each day from our stores in CA and BC, I can tell you most every store owner I know including myself have kept a lot of cards off the market because of fear of scammers. Particularly stuff over $750, or later on $250, because of the prevalence of scammers literally millions of cards are being held off the online marketplace by not just collectors, but stores and large volume show dealers. This new rule will bring all these cards onto the market, giving buyers access to high quality cards without paying huge fees to grading companies. By creating this service it creates extra liquidity in the market to give sellers the confidence to pull out their higher priced items and put them onto the market, and gives buyers the confidence to put down big monies and get that shadowless without doubt.
be prepared to see a lot of fakes listed at $749.99 lol
People saying they'll lose money for this are forgetting the fact that they'll lose so much more business if buyers can't be assured that they're getting something real and sellers can't be assured that a buyer won't lie about a product they receive. No faith in TCG products on eBay = no TCG business on eBay.
PartTimeTCGCollector
Aspiring Trainer
I think ebay is doing this because they want to avoid losing money on their "money back guaranteed". Don't forget what recently happened...who got the largest amount of money back??? The guy that wants to destroy every aspect of Pokemon TCG.
This could be a great system, but I would down the price to around 300USD. There are very few cards that can be sold by 750USD. And the market is slowly coming back to 2019-2020 prices, so I find this a little out of reality.
Nobody would buy a card for $500 that's ungraded? Have you seen Magic cards?
PartTimeTCGCollector
Aspiring Trainer
Yeah, and that is one of the stupidest decision anyone does when purchasing TCG, even if that person is a millionaire. What can you do with that one card other than bragging about it, have it on a display or shove it up in your you know what.
Are there even 10 cards that are above $750 raw?
But what about cards purchased from Japan or other countries outside America? I'm really glad I already completed my Japanese collection, this seems like it would be such a huge headache. I have a bad feeling this might happen to comic books too :/
In PTCG, sure, but across the entire Trading Card market, absolutely not the case. Bare in mind the original article details a lot around the entire Trading card market which includes sports cards, Tennis and Soccer being the highest growth markets with Pokémon a distant 3rd.
I don't know about the rest of you, I know absolutely f all about Sports cards, but a quick eBay search for ungraded sports trading cards brings up page after page of cards listed well over £550 ($750 USD).
Looking at the whole Trading Card market, this seems about right in the first instance, before coming down to $250 later in the year.
Get the process working, then expand.
You must not play Magic. People play with them competitively (e.g. dual lands like Volcanic Island, etc.). Not that that's a good thing, but that's the way it is right now. In Pokemon, look at Tropical Beach for example. Great card for competitive with no sign that it will be reprinted and now it's being used in Expanded AND GLC.