Today we’re announcing Authenticity Guarantee for Trading Cards, eBay’s authentication service, for individual, ungraded sports trading cards (STC), collectible card games (CCG), and non-sports trading cards (NSTC) sold for $750 or more. Authenticity Guarantee ensures you’re selling with confidence - knowing that the professional authentication team at the Certified Collectibles Group, which includes CGC Trading Cards and Certified Sports Guaranty (CSG), will verify your card before sending it to the buyer, ensuring that you—and your buyer—are protected.
eBay launched Authenticity Guarantee for select categories in 2020, and have already authenticated over 1 million sneakers, watches, and luxury handbags through the service.
How Authenticity Guarantee Works:
Authenticity Guarantee was designed with your convenience in mind:
- If your item is eligible for authentication, a blue “Authenticity Guarantee” check mark will automatically appear on your listing.
- When a buyer purchases your item, you’ll receive a confirmation email indicating the item was sold with Authenticity Guarantee, which will also be noted in your order details in Seller Hub.
- You’ll ship the card to the authenticator and the card will go through a multi-point inspection before receiving a tamper-proof authentication sticker and a unique QR code.
- Your item will be delivered safely to the buyer via 4-day or less tracked shipping. At this time, all cards sold via Authenticity Guarantee require a signature delivery.
If you offer returns and your buyer chooses to return the item, the authenticator will inspect and verify it before they send it back to you, ensuring you get the same item back that was sent in the original condition.
If you don’t offer returns, the item will be deemed as final sale. Learn more about our policy.
At this time, only single, ungraded sports trading cards, collectible card games and non-sports trading cards that sell for $750 or more are eligible for Authenticity Guarantee. Sets, lots, kits, decks, boxes, packs, patch/jersey, wardrobe/costume cards and autographed cards do not currently qualify for Authenticity Guarantee. If your card has any of these attributes, please be sure to add these important details to the title of your listing.
We will expand eligibility criteria to additional trading card types and price eligibility thresholds in the future.
Learn more about Authenticity Guarantee for trading cards.
As always, thank you for selling on eBay.
The eBay Team
