$23,000 EBAY LOSS on a Mislabeled Beckett Card! 

Beckett fucked up on this one. Ebay took the L for the team.

EBay makes that amount in 1 second...they'll be OK😂😂

Seller got a killing here. $1 Red marker + $10 MJ metal base + $15 becket grading = $23,000.

Chump change to eBay. It's to boost their reputation 💯 and make Beckett look like trash 🗑

EBay DOESN’T do this for less expensive cards! I bought an Ohtani Chrome xfractor RC PSA 9 last year and it arrived as a Prism refractor, eBay authenticated. Ebay told me too bad so I had to deal with it through my credit card.

I had a pair of Kobe2 shoes rejected that I actually bought for my son from a reputable sports store when they came out..no faith in their second hand grading

How in the world does a card like that get past eBay?? That is crazy

Ebay did the right thing. 23K to eBay buys them credibility on the $2.5 Billion revenue for Q1 and $438M profit.

Nice love the selling tips. I’ve been paring down my collection because it had become too unfocused, so many different areas during Covid, many can relate I’m sure.

It took me less than 5 minutes to determine that that card was an absolutely - without question - a fake. And all I had was video and photos of it off of the internet. It really makes me question the quality of the people being hired to grade these cards. And the seller is a big actor trying to play coy and cooperative. But they are obviously a scam artist who doctored this card and got fortunate that it passed through all of these channels without being penalized. Again this speaks to the sloppiness of Beckett, eBay, and the buyer (in that order). Unless the seller can prove that they bought that card in the same forged state it’s in now from someone else. But I highly doubt that’s the case. I agree with Geoff. This is going to encourage more scammers to try this because the seller eventually was allowed to be paid (even though it’s obvious it was a scam on his part.

Another reason why BGS is a joke of a company

As someone who left the hobby 2 years ago then came back recently I’m loving the prices and steals I been getting on the bids! Most of this stuff I’m getting was unthinkable 2 years ago

When you get offered big money for a card you sell it. Sold a Zach Wilson on card auto /25 for 1k his rookie year. I could get that same card today for $35

Beckett should have split the payments with eBay so they didn’t have to double pay. 100% policy change coming. Telling people with a straight face that you only authenticate the slab and not the card is not taking accountable. We want an authentic card, not an authentic $15 slab. Another thought on your reselling tip portion of your segment….. Y’all used to be amazing at the education side of the hobby. If you showed and talked about how to get a card LLC setup and basic processes on how to get tax free certificates, track cost basis and how to account for proper taxes would help the hobby tremendously and get younger resellers thinking like a real business.

I think the Volpe would probably sell for like $25-40k range so definitely take the $150,000 in a heartbeat lol

I had Beckett mislabel one of my MJ cards recently. It was a parallel that they labeled as a base. I caught the issue while they still had the card. Reached out several times trying to get them to correct. Never heard from anyone at Beckett whatsoever. The card ended up being delivered to me with the wrong label. It was a low level card that ended up grading poorly so I didn’t stress it. But it’s alarming that customers are catching their mistakes, alerting them about it, and they don’t care enough to even respond. What’s the point of using a grading company that doesn’t care about being accurate with what the card actually is.

I ran into a similar issue with EBay. I bought a replica of Josh Allen rookie RPA and he had a no return on his site. Thankfully, it was only 20 or 30 dollars though… Ebay needs to step up!

The scammer/seller got away.

I've been in similar situation to this a couple times with eBay.. never for this anything close to this amount but it's good to see that they handle the situation the same no matter the $ amount of the item sold

I have a mislabeled PSA Ripken FF card. At least I believe it’s mislabeled. I believe it’s the common version, however it’s labeled as a rarer version and comps over $400. I wouldn’t sell it as the higher priced card when I believe to be mislabeled. I bought it from someone a long time ago, for about what it comps at in the common version.

Great show

I’m sure eBay will have to close down, lol. That’s like me losing 1 cent.

Entertaining show, thanks

I sure hope they paid him the tax on $23,000 too

Who mass produced Jordan rookie counterfeits? I remember being at the shows and guys getting out their magnifying glasses. Those were spread out all over the country I believe. I won't send a thing to BSS or PSA ever again and its been that way since 2007. I have some stuff i would like grafed but NO THANKS....

Hi. I have a question i'm asking here and there. How to start my card business but what i'm intrested in is should i start big and buy and sell the biggest cards i can find and afford or maybe start slow with selling some of my collections (i collect mostly trading cards), buy boxes and sell the cards i won't need and also hold to some of them for later buy boxes like Lorcana First Chapter and keep it closed for the potential money in the future? So start big or start slow?

When spending high dollar- check, double check, infinity check

I like beckett grading they're usually really consistent their elite stuff is harder to get then psa10

I bought a PSA 10 Nathan Mackinnon young guns rookie that was to go through the authentication process . I waited 5 weeks and when the card arrived it was in the original packaging from the seller and had not even been opened or authenticated . I tried to contact ebay but no response . I paid $39 for the shipping and the authentication . I will never purchase a card through this program again . Any thoughts ?

usually a card is alter bgs will return without grade isn't that the case? why alter but authentic? cause of high value card?

Cards HQ looks dope af

eBay has a one time account exemption Ben would have used his. Also when it passes authentication it is a final sale.

"Ebay I guess probably didn't really have to give the buyer back their money" - this is a bad take. Ebay certainly should give back the money on a card that is falsely advertised (intentional or not). Whether it is refunding just the buyer or both buyer and seller. Their authentication process is so relaxed, the only authentication they probably do is check to see if the card is in the package. All that extra overhead and still getting it wrong.

I buy and collect NHL autograph cards, I mostly buy from ebay sellers. I get the odd card, not authenticated. I keptvthe cards, to keep them off the market.

That's a real ebay 1/1

You see this with Topps Pristine And PSA !!!!!!!!

It's just another black eye on the entire grading companies in general as they have been getting bad reviews for a long time.

The thing I don’t understand about the seller receiving his money I mean I get that he did put no returns but I’m pretty sure like most of us on here. We’ve all sold on eBay and have no returns on our stuff and had a case where they were able to return, and get the money back. This is a very weird story specially, with the seller getting his money I’ve been in a few incidents where high-value items get a 30 day hold regardless of your years or history on eBay and people try to return and keep the item and try to get their money back. I’ve had some customer service representatives of eBay told me an email that they don’t have a seller return policy Policies are weird on eBay and it’s making it very difficult to sell cards. I do hope they do rearrange because it makes it kind of unsafe for a lot of us. To sell online it forces us to go to these auction houses and pay their fees and commissions and that’s really going to be only on high ticket items. Now you’re 20 $50 slabs even maybe $100 slabs just hold onto them and go to shows like it’s just it. There isn’t really a safe platform. It feels like to sell cards anymore.

What does it mean for the sportcards community, nothing?

Well, eBay did get the seller fee from the original sale, so they lost a little less than that... around $21,500. But don't worry, they make that much in minutes... they'll survive.

That's sketchy if the buyer submitted the card. On of the similar situation I had was with a card I sold. It was a mislabeled PSA card that I got through a break. I was new to selling at the time and didn't know it was mislabeled until the buyer requested refund.. and from what I understand eBay did the same and sided with both me the seller and the buyer

BECKETT was on life support before this mistake. *unplugs*

EBAY IS OUT 46K - 23 per ebay user.

Anyone have a update on the cracked psa slabs? Turner said he would say something but never has?

eBay has a one time account exemption Ben would have used his.

T-pot with all ur knowledge on SP n or SSP inserts I thought u would be putting up some rare more sleeper sets like 2012-13 panini prestige playmakers look so good very simple almost like a blank slate!!! I got a Josh Smith(stupid underrated) who I pc n I love it!! Also stuff like 04-05 skybox E-XL x-ceptional got the E-XL parallel which is much more rare then the E-X version!! One more the 99-00 Fleer showcase element-ary got kobe Bryant Al n the Garnett!! Sick liking card very different then any other insert I've seen!! Uses the periodic table n element-ary get it?

Well done eBay right thing to do! This is why I’ll never grade with Beckett no accountability or guarantee

Well buyer sold card. Ebay and beckett screwed up. After the buyer sent it to beckett, the had to have opened it to look at it. That's how eBay is at fault for the card. Once it's opened - sale done. Fake or not. Can't send back altered items.

With ebay fees they get from us sellers, they’ll be fine. For the buyer luckily got his money back.

The guy complaining about eBay’s no return policy has obviously never sold on eBay. If you allow returns scammers will bs you like crazy

Mailbag for next week. The topps/panini licencing issue is ridiculous for this years Euro 24 competition. Some of the big teams like Germany, England etc don't have licence with Topps so the official stickers are all messed up with big players missing and they can't show the shirts for certain teams. Then the topps now cards for those teams they are having to photoshop the jersey's into solid block colours (see any germany topps now card). It's an absolute mess. Panini is then putting out there own stickers that have the same issue, it's ruining what should be one of the most fun tournaments to collect this year...

eBay makes BILLIONS each years. Likely tens of billions - 23k is absolutely nothing to them.

There's some loop holes to the no return policy. So everyone should read up first

Beckett is toast, I been telling everyone to be done with them until they fix some issues. Why would anyone trust beckett to label anything?

Hahahahahaha this is why it’s tough to take this stuff seriously…$23K card fooled every step of verification with a red sharpie…

FLEABAY WILL BE FINE- HAVE YOU SEEN THEIR FEES LATELY?

I sold my mosaic choice Anthony Richardson black gold showtime signatures PSA 10 on eBay, and they lost it. I still got paid, I’m unsure if they refunded the buyer, all I know is a gorgeous pop 1 card is missing

So ebay needs to work in partnership with PSA to make sure a BGS label is real and matches their pop report?

Resellers are ruining the market. Why can't we just collect??

Hey guys thanks again for the in-depth coverage of my story, I think the publicity of this saga was the real reason that I got fully refunded (at Ebay's loss unfortunately). Which is not great for other people that may be dealing with similar issues but with less or no public exposure. I will update you guys with 2 things. 1: Beckett gave me a gift certificate for their grading services as an apology for the mistake they have made, I have accepted and are working with them to get updates on when the card can be removed from the pop report. 2: Ebay has actually Attempted to get the seller to refund his money, however since it was "optional" for the seller, the seller (to my knowledge) has declined. At the end of the day, it didn't change any of the outcome, Ebay is still out 23k, seller will still make 23k, and I think that's how this whole thing will wrap up. I may post another video for an official wrap up but again, thanks guys for all of your help & support.

Not sure why we let BGS get away without guaranteeing their cards

Looks like Beckett is paying SCI for advertising…

I closed my Ebay account. Ebay is the worst.

Don't agree with dealer prices at trade night, so if you have bigger cards you would lose money on them??😠

I miss the old set.

Beckett needs to take 100% responsibility. They graded it, they labeled it, and they shipped it back.

hows is Beckett not on the hook?

Beckett is out plenty. It's another dagger into their soon to be irrelevant grading caper. If you have cards in BGS slabs - and you care about their long term value - the best thing to do is crack them out and resub them with PSA. I can't think of many brands that have fallen as quickly as theirs has. Extraordinary.

I would love to talk to someone knowledgeable on error cards. I have 5 error Rookie Cards of Brock Purdy, and have no idea how to value or treat them. 1 Is double stamped with Brock and Sauce Gardner and the other major one is Brock on front and TJ Watt on back. The others were more mass produced with him being WR, and missing legs, and off stamp markings... Scared to death to send them off to PSA.

Could the beckett person who graded it know the person who altered the card? Therefore that's why they wanted to take a second look?

Ebay isn't hurting, that's pennies to them.... Next story please

The pmg reds are not numbered then?

Well considering it was fake why don't ebay go after Beckett then Beckett go after the person selling the fake?

No returns unless exchanged , misrepresented or intent to defraud the customer

Wait, did he call that adult man “teapot”?

When are you going to go live on whatnot

Good

$23,000 of marketing gold for eBay.

Is PSA really involved with ebay's authenticity garauntee???

Acceptable Losses for eBay

They made that of me last year lol they will be fine

20k

Its basically free advertising for eBay's Authenticity Guarantee program, basically. $23,000 is nothing.

eBay should sue BECKETT

No first but go Gators!

Ok I’m very confused. The seller got paid for his fake card? Why ?

To me this is the seller getting one over on someone using a beckett mislabeled slab. I could tell the card wasnt a pmg from a mile away. The seller plays stupid, gets paid and thats how we ended up here.

I sold a card on eBay for $44 the buyer paid $55 and I got $36. Is that normal?

Take the 150k and run!! I would take 10k least no doubt

Send Ben a Sportcards for Dummies book.

Beckett lost a ton of credibility. To big a mistake lmao, how the F???

Don"t worry eBay will make that money up on all the fees they keep adding to my sales. 🤪

Why in the Hell would beckett slab a colored card?. THis is why I dont deal with beckett. They should not slab a card that has been colored.

Isn't eBay out $46,000?

23k loss on a Desmond Ridder 1/1 rookie auto 😮

Geoff talking about others losing money. How do you think your sheep feel?

What do you mean ebay didn’t have to? They authenticated a card that was clearly fake. I don’t care what their policy says it’s called eBay authentication meaning they guarantee it authentic or should. Because that’s the definition. It’s not called eBay slab authentication

Hey Geoff! Why does your WN channel steal cards from customers and not answer messages about the problem?

When will people stop getting cards graded its just a money grab for a secondary industry

How the fff does a card that big pass thru ebay authentication?? And how the fff does beckett authenticate a card that big which is obviously fake. Grading is a joke and so is ebay authentication