Authenticity Guarantee on Sportscards

[woonis]

Free "FOR A LIMITED TIME ONLY" so they have a plan to eventually charge either the buyer, the seller, or both? This program is so totally unecessary. Why do sellers with strong track records have to have authenticated items re-authenticated??????

This smells of an upcoming money grab by Ebay, and slows significantly the time into the buyers hands.

[comics-scifi-collectibles]

@woonis   I do agree if the item has been authenticated  and incased by one of the authentication services on the list then the seller should be able to ship directly to the buyer if they wish.  

I finally found the verbiage about " eBay covers all the costs for a limited time"  

https://pages.ebay.com/authenticity-guarantee-tradingcards/

I wonder if they will do like they did with the handbags and raise the category fee.    Only time will tell.