eBay’s Authenticity Guarantee now includes graded trading cards over $2,000

eBay is expanding its services to include single graded trading cards over $2,000. The company is partnering with a third-party trading card service.

The authenticity guarantee already includes sneakers for over $100, watches for over $2,000, and handbags for over $500. In January, eBay announced it was launching a service for ungraded trading cards.

Sending a trading card to a third-party service that inspects it and assigns it a rating is how graded a card is. Graded cards fetch more money because they have been inspected and rated.

The sealed plastic holder and label on the cards will be verified by PSA, the third-party company that will handle the cards from eBay. The real problem with fake trading cards is that they are a niche problem for some people.

Many people were stuck at home during the Pandemic, so collecting and reselling trading cards increased. At one point, wait times to get a Pokémon card graded stretched into months as companies like PSA dealt with cards. The team at PSA handling its cards is separate from the people working through the backlog, which, according to an April 28th podcast, stood at over four million cards.