Pokemon Cards / CPSC Requirements?
Summary: fifteen4two highlighted an issue with eBay requiring a Children's Certificate of Conformity for Pokémon card listings, noting that it might be due to the cards being categorized under "toys." mandicrafts suggested a potential miscategorization, while lotzofuniquegoodies elaborated on how these categorizations can be subjective. pwetcg and thenortherntradingandcollectables reported similar issues, with thenortherntradingandcollectables mentioning they had to remove listings due to the requirement. thebossorder suggested clarifying descriptions to avoid child-targeted categories and called for clearer guidelines from eBay. fifteen4two expressed frustration over the lack of available documents and eBay's unhelpful stance.
So I was posting a listing for a Pokemon card yesterday and noticed when I got to the end of the listing it was asking for a Children's Certificate of Conformity as a normal toy would.. I can however find no information online pertaining to if pokemon cards (or TCG cards in general) fall under the CPSC need to provide a Children's Certificate of Conformity.. moreover I started trying to look for some of these Certificates online at any of the large manufacturers and only LEGO from what I can tell has the documentation online.
Was this added as eBay has TCG cards under the "toys" category and they just opened the Cert upload tab for everything in the category?
At that point after reading that if the Cert was missing americans won't be able to buy it or it'll be hidden I was like "fine, americans won't see any of the few toys I have online".. but I do sell more then a few pokemon cards so that's kind of a concern.. especially for higher end cards.
Also, has anyone seen if US customs is basing what to pull based on the HS codes specifically? if so then pokemon falls into code #9504.40.00.00
Wondering for adult level collectables 14+ toys vs 3+ toys.. if US customs is just flagging lazy HS code users, the two codes (9503.00.00.73 vs 9503.00.00.90) would made the difference (73 for younger and 90 for 13+ )
pwetcg
·4 days agoSince this requirement, I've noticed I've had absolutely no sales from canada to the USA in the ccg individual cards category. Any workarounds for this would be appreciated.
thenortherntradingandcollectables
·1 month ago · EditedHas anyone figured out how to deal with this CPC document issue?
I just had to remove around 40 individual Pokémon card listings because they were no longer visible to the .com page due to missing CPC documentation. I called eBay support, but they just quoted information from the CPC/CPSC page and weren’t able to provide me with an actual solution. I explained that these are individual collectible Pokémon cards and questioned why they are being flagged as requiring a Children’s Product Certificate. Has anyone selling individual Pokémon/TCG cards from Canada figured out how to resolve this? Are your listings also being hidden from U.S. buyers?
thebossorder
·2 months agoi see it as well and im not sure if its affecting my visibility or sales at all.
the actual HS code for pokemon cards is 9504.40.0000.
as far as i am aware it does NOT fall under CPSC, however i also think it can be interpretated differently by who check your package at customs.
personnaly i write "pokemon card collectible" to make sure its not something aimed at children, but being the biggest category on ebay i feel like they should give a CLEAR tutorial on what to do
fifteen4two
OP2 months agothe problem is as I see it, is that according to ebay, any listing not having CPSC docs loaded into the listings will have no visibility in the US, meaning at this time all listings for pokemon or other TCG cards at this time have no visibility on the .com platform due to this foolishness of having ALL TCG cards lumped into the "Toys & Hobbies" category. and their adding the "document upload required" tag on all those listings
moreover, what is ebay doing to help sellers/resellers on getting these "needed" documents when no website (other then LEGO as far as I have seen) is having them available for download and the best solution we have been given thus far is "message their help support to ask for them" Sellers should NOT be required to have these documents on hand when we did not manufacture the goods.
pwetcg
·2 months agoI'm also showing this on all my pokemon and yu-gi-oh card listings. any ideas on what to do about it?
mandicrafts
·2 months agoI see people say for trading cards you use 4911.91.00.30 (other printed matter)
But I have also seen the one you reference which is for "playing cards".
mandicrafts
·2 months agoMaybe you are listing it in the wrong category?
lotzofuniquegoodies
·2 months ago@mandicrafts Years ago with eBay the category was critical. It was monitored to the letter of the law. Now it seems like it "can be" entirely subjective. (The category something is listed is almost hidden and as of late very often not even close. Both accidental and intentional.) The exact same thing can happen for customs purposes. Subjective and up to interpretation. This is why in the past many sellers (especially businesses) had/have their own customs brokers on speed dial. If they (their broker) didn't agree with a shippers interpretation they would advise and you had to send them an amended customs invoice before they would process. Most small time sellers can't afford to have their own broker. It's not a cheap endeavor. Similar to having an accountant. They've both become necessary evils.
For a flashback lesson on the topic remember in the past when all you needed was that green CN22 bare basic attachment to package?