Ive had a few issues with ebays authenticator over the last 12 months or so, usually just them saying i didnt fully describe all the damage even when my listing either states it or the photos clearly show it. The work around the ebay dude told me was to simply mark down every cards condition which imo is distasteful and misleading but hey it worked so i did it with no issues until now. Now unfortunately it appears they damaged my card. To be fair ive had no other issues and have sold too many cards without problems via the authenticator but there is a freaking crease in the middle of this card now plain as day that was absolutely not in the listing photos nor done by me during packaging (for the nosy few or for context its a corocoro shining mew i sold). Crease smack in the middle like the ripped it out of the sleeve or toploader without care. Cannot imagine it happening in shipping as i ship tight sleeve, regular sleeve, cardsaver, bubble mailer, packing paper, and then in a box with a polymailer around it and have never had and issue in all this time with thousands upon thousands of shipments. What options do i have or what are you other fellow tcg sellers doing for higher value cards? I though of potentially just grading everything over 250$ regardless of its conditioning but theres no good value grading options now that i am aware of and i prefer to just turn and burn singles. Could do consignment but then itll just go back on ebay and face the overworked psa yet again and this time with a middleman so i dont think that really fixes it. I really want to just pull everything over 250 off ebay completely but that would hurt our business and i otherwise love the platform, any suggestions? Assuming i wont be able to do anything about the damage but advice there would be cool, more just hoping someone else has a work around so as to not even have to deal with them, maybe just grading with cgc? idk
