Likewise, you’re limiting your seller pool when you ignore listings with slab’s serial number censored.
One major advantage of online shopping websites is to facilitate that information symmetry between buyer and seller. What you are doing via censoring is to introduce asymmetry in the information exchange here.
You could use your argument that the sellers pool is limited sure but especially for an abundant card used in this example + given the platform economy model of online websites, a buyer can very easily find another seller.
What is more disproportionate here might very well be the downside to you as the seller - in terms of the type buyer pool you might be attracting and the very use of this information asymmetry against you in the form of negative feedback, reduced trust etc.
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As a buyer I’m not trying to maximise my buying pool… I’m more interested in avoiding sellers I don’t trust
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Same here, I’m interested in avoiding “buyers” who are fraudsters and scammers.
Unfortunately they do in Japan (or they do in other countries and get those into Japan):
This guy did several videos covering all sorts of fake slabs currently spreading in Japan:
But yeah personally I don’t cover the cert when taking pictures of my own cards just because I feel like if I did run into theft I still have some degree of evidence that I own the card.
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Oh gosh, shocking to know fraudsters do fake modern cards! Thanks for sharing!
Haha this is slowly devolving into this thread.
Love it when the sellers and buyers on here start clashing.
If you’re covering the cert number, would you then provide additional pictures if a buyer asked? Because they can’t go and check the scans.
Not sure what the point you are making here but on that prior thread, my point was my listing already had multiple pictures of front and back of card + cert numbers for people to check against if they do wished too.
Hence found it odd/sus that that particular buyer would still request that way in the thread given all the readily available info at hand.
On this one, if any I am making the point that sellers covering cert numbers can actually reduce transparency - which your quote has already implicit reference to:
Haha sorry that wasn’t directed at you specifically, just linked the thread from your original post to compare
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I don’t hide certs when selling, but I want to hide certs when posting my cards. I just don’t want there to be a connection between the two.
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Ah no worries all good! That thread had
good discussion points on both sides of the fence. This seems to also be turning out that way too re this theme of covering certs.
Mods - conscious this is the Japanese Market thread, perhaps good to spin out into its own topic (if there isn’t one already) and we can continue discussions there?
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This. Especially with a ton of listings that just cover the cert numbers and the QR code, but just leave the barcode untouched.
Dropshipping is more common than you think. If I see a hard to find card listed on eBay shipped from Japan, I might try to see if that listing is somewhere else like Mercari, Yahoo! Japan, etc. But it may not be easy to find, or might be a local card shop or local online marketplace that I don’t have access to.
There are scenarios where I would pay slightly more on eBay to get the full buyer protection, vs buying through Buyee with limited, if any buyer protection
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I think its a fair price. One of the lower grades for chansey
People with QR/barcode scanners can simply scan the barcode to retrieve the serial number of the slab. So both serial number and barcode have to be covered if they intend to.
For any means of profiting from Pokémon TCG, I would always assume that an equivalent must exist in Japan which focuses on modern so not really a surprise to see those.
Vault services? You have magi Vault.
Liquid Marketplace? You have alty.
Influencers bringing huge attention? You have Hikaru.
And now you have fake slabs of modern running all over Japanese marketplaces.
Sellers hiding the certs will have their cards denied by eBay authenticity.
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yes
I didnt realize i had listed a card that id removed the cert from and eBay sent the card back to me
Had to have the buyer re-buy it
There’s a lot of posts here but in reality there’s absolutely no pros to blocking the cert. Hurts the buyer pool.
I’d like to ask @smpratte how many of his cards have had the cert used for fake slabs. Probably a handful out of 100,000 he’s handled.
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You are exactly right! I’ve had it happen and while the process of getting a new cert is tedious, it’s extremely rare, rarer than the cards themselves.
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