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wastingtime101 · ‎07-19-2023

Trading card updated conditions announcement:

https://community.ebay.com/t5/Announcements/Revamp-your-trading-card-listings-with-updated-condition...

Representing the validity and condition of your trading cards just got easier. The new revamped grading system will help enhance the quality of your new listings and establish trust with your buyers.

Here’s an overview of what’s new:

A revamped grading system for single trading cards, where we’ve upgraded from Used, to the more precise grading labels of Graded and Ungraded.
Graded: Add the relevant grader, numerical grade, and the certification number (recommended).
Ungraded: Select the appropriate card condition that best fits the state of the card.

Your existing listings will also auto-migrate where there’s a one-to-one match between all the current card conditions.

Questions for eBay kyle@ebay elizabeth@ebay devon@ebay

1. What happens to existing listings when there is not a one-to-one match? Do they stay new/used until the seller updates? Do they convert to ungraded? Something else?

2. What's the deadline for sellers making these updates before they start running into problems?

@shipscript - Tagging because I know you help a lot of trading card sellers with uploading specifics & variation changes through Seller Hub reports so you're probably interested in tracking this discussion.

GLORIOUS!

a1cards · ‎07-26-2023

Hi, please add better choices for condition such as, Mint - Near Mint - Ex-Mt - Ex - Vg-ex - Vg-vgEx these are grades used by PSA that most of the sellers use. Or let us add our own condition description.

Condition Ex-Mt - Centering: - Corners: - Edges: - Surface: -

Have a pleasent day

thelongball · ‎07-26-2023

Hello- I need help in a big way as My listings are very messed up during this transfer. In the past under where it said Used I would list all the faults with each individual card. eBay has been moving my stuff into the new system and this information is not following over on most. I have cards that are showing up in wrong grades. I have cards showing up as Poor and I've never listed a poor card as that is something that gets tossed in the garbage. My frustrations are to the boiling point. I never had a return on miss graded cards because a line appeared to the right of the photo telling customers the faults. Now that information is gone and in order to re enter it, I have to pull every card out and go thru them again. This will take months to do. All the information is disappearing. Please help. I'm so demotivated right now that I haven't added any new listings since this mess all started. If I could afford to - I'd just cancel everything and walk away at this point. I really need some help please.

johnjefprks · ‎07-26-2023

I feel your pain. I also used that description box to state. Please see scan for condition. this is the card you will receive. It was a way of letting buyers know that the pictures where not stock photos like a lot of sellers use. I did that because I was getting a lot of messages from buyer asking if the photos were stock photos or of the card they would receive. Now that they are eliminating that box the only place they will see that note is in the sellers notes, which is buried under quite a few eBay adds so very few buyers will read it. I expect I will be getting a lot of messages again for the reason stated above. That is just one of several problems this is going to cause.

thelongball · ‎07-26-2023

You and I are selling the same thing. I had hoped you had a solution. Currently, I'm just taking them down and hit sell similar and redo. But it will take months to fix the mess. And with the new return metric, months may not be a luxury we have. Time to think up a new name and throw our spotless feedback away.

onefootflipper · ‎07-26-2023

@powell-memorabilia wrote:
Watched your video. I wound up buying a dog treat hide n seek!

Nice! I can't believe those things are so cheap.

powell-memorabilia · ‎07-26-2023

My dog thanks you.

johnjefprks · ‎07-26-2023

Ebay, has stated from what I am reading as long as you don't revise your listing after October you don't need to mess with the existing condition. If you do sell similar now you will get pushed into the new rules. Revising now, the condition stay as it always was.

thelongball · ‎07-26-2023

If you revise it goes to new. Don't do the recommended updates or they push to new and erase all your notes without transferring them! I screwed up 400 that way.