Circumventing authentication process.

[laws1212]

Has anyone seen sellers circumventing the authenticity guarantee by listing a high end card as part of a lot of cards.  

[mudshark61369]

@laws1212 ,

The listing posted with a high end card in with a lot, may have been posted by a New seller, or one New to the sports card selling category. You could probably figure that out by checking their feedback profile, or by doing an Advanced search By seller, of their completed listings, to see if they have many feedback for sports cards. They could be a cleaning out the closet seller who has no idea of the one card's worth. An knowledgeable seller in the sports cards category, would probably list that card separately. 

  Lots cannot be sent to the authenticators and single cards must have a value of $250 for an ungraded card or $350 for a graded one to be eligible for Authentication. If you post the ebay item number for the lot we may be able to tell you if this is an intentional error on the seller's part or not.

[laws1212]

they are not a new seller.  Have been selling on eBay for 15 + years.  They also have a retail card store.  Good seller feed back but something feels off.  Why list a $5k NM card in a lot.  Appreciate the feedback.  

[mudshark61369]

@laws1212 ,

"Why list a $5k NM card in a lot"

Since they are an experienced seller I'd say either they had a store employee set up the listing who did not check the cards or photos carefully. OR the card is not a 15K one but a lesser value one. If I knew something special was in with a Lot of similar items I'd add photos and mention it in the description. 

You could roll the dice on this and end up making out like a bandit, or depending on the BIN price or Auction final price, ending up returning the lot for not as described.