eBay has added new data to collectibles listings by leveraging its relationship with PSA (owned by Collectors), an authenticator that acquired eBay’s Vault last year and integrated it into its own PSA Vault for storage of physical collectibles.
Andy Feierfeil, eBay Senior Director of Product Management for Fashion, Collectibles, Live Shopping announced on LinkedIn last week that eBay had added PSA population report data into eBay’s trading card listings. (Feierfeil is a “boomerang” eBayer, having been at the company from 2007 – 2012 and rejoining eBay from Facebook parent Meta in 2023).
Sports Collectors Digest explained the new feature eBay is adding to its listings, writing: “PSA Population Report data is being integrated directly into trading card listings for cards graded by PSA. The data, which is compiled by PSA for the most notable sports and trading cards, provides buyers with valuable insights into an item’s rarity, grade distribution, and pricing.”
Cllct wrote that PSA’s population data will provide eBay buyers with the ability to view the rarity of cards based on their certification numbers checked against PSA’s database.
eBay VP and GM of Global Collectibles Adam Ireland provided a statement to Sports Collectors Digest in its article about the “PSA Pop Report,” where Ireland revealed that eBay had updated its eBay Live policy ” allowing mystery boxes and mystery repacks” – another change that did not make it onto the eBay Seller announcement board.
The New York Times reported earlier this month that PSA was expanding internationally by growing operations in Canada, Europe, and Japan. It said that in 2024, “more than 20 million trading cards were graded by the four major grading companies (PSA, CGC, SGC and Beckett) and more than 15 million of those were graded by PSA,” citing GemRate, which tracks graded card populations.
In his post on LinkedIn, eBay’s Feierfeil said, “This is just the beginning of more to come from our strategic partnership w/ PSA.”