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Sold a card for $820
Harnessracing
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But its not requiring me to send it to authentication but direct to the buyer. Ive never seen that before but I think I heard that if the address is a PO Box it wont ship to authentication. Does anyone know if thats true or not?
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PO BOXES, APO Addresses and US Territories are EXCLUDED from eBay Authentication eligibility. You need to set up a shipping rule to not allow purchases with these type of shipping addresses if you want to force the item to go through authentication. International addresses are also excluded, but you don't have to worry about returns on those as eBay just resells (disposes of!) international returns. (I guess if you could make listings international sales only, you could do al sorts of fraud things!)
Also I think the main reason is that FedEx is used and of course you can't ship FedEx to APO or PO and they figure there is too much shenanigans going on to use USPS
PSA uses FedEx as at least one of the owners of Collectors Universe's holds a huge amount of Fedex stock.
It's the singer not the song - Peter Townshend (1972)
A lot of folks, especially rural areas, don't get street delivery. The "work around" used to be to use the Post Office physical address & unit number to get Fed Ex, UPS, DHL delivery.
Such as:
123 Main St. Unit 222
Anytown, USA
Instead of just PO Box 222
I recently purchased a $700 card that went through authentication at PSA. Card was then sent to me through USPS with no signature required.
How much did it sale for is one of the funniest and most ignorant things I've ever heard.
^ Then makes no sense to exclude USA PO Boxes....
It's the singer not the song - Peter Townshend (1972)
I think I would pass at this point in time not to use the authentication process for an 820 dollar card. Going to have to wait 3-4 days for the money anyways so what's another 3-4 days. Of all the stuff eBay has done to make the process painful this one is probably the best thing they ever did.
ON ITS WAY TO NEWPORT BEACH, CA 92658
Every time I buy something over $250 on eBay it bypasses the authenticity. It's ridiculous that they exclude PO Boxes.
I have always had a PO Box because my mail sometimes would "disappear" at my house. In 10+ years and thousands of eBay deliveries to my PO Box, I have only had one issue (package arrived already opened with contents gone. In my situation, it's much safer to get my deliveries at my PO Box.
I thought it was strange a card of mine that sold for $262, there was no detour for ebay authentication.
I just shipped it direct to the buyer's residential address.
It was a PSA freshly graded card, days after I received it back from grading.
I had opened the auction at $99 with no buy it now. Don't know if any of that made a difference.
I just wanted to let everyone know that the OP is actually the disgraced, but not banned, member gaspipe26, which he freely admits to in this thread https://forums.collectors.com/discussion/1099332/it-seems-like-older-psa-certs-same-grade-are-selling-for-less/p2
In case anyone isn't familiar with the all defrauding that gaspipe26 attempted in April/May of 2021, you can read about it in this long, but eye opening thread.
https://forums.collectors.com/discussion/1056442/did-anyone-here-attend-this-auction-in-delaware-mostly-unopened/p1