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Hello all, been awhile since I’ve last posted.  Has anyone been contacted by eBay authentication services due to a vintage card measuring short. They said it could have been trimmed or cut short after printing and that it would not grade at any of the services. 
 

it’s a 1960 Mantle, I suspect many of this eta have been trimmed so I’m not too upset. Seller has offered to reduce price by $100 dollars. But I can’t seem to get in touch with eBay even though they requested me to get back to them. They will auto send back card on Monday if they don’t hear from me. 

Other question, would you keep card or just have it returned for full refund?

Please take what I say with a grain of salt. I'm no expert. However, I think that if I were you, I'd search ebay with search terms like this:
1960 Mickey Mantle -Reprint -team -Boyer
I'd then use the check boxes and selections on the left to restrict the results to Show Only Trading Cards Singles. Graded No. Season 1960. Year Manufactured 1960. Show Only Sold Items.
I don't know which 1960 card you are looking at, but if you are looking at the All-star card from Topps, that has sold from $46 to $250 without the "Authenticity Guaranteed", including one that went for $171.50 that looks like it was slabbed and specified that it was trimmed.
If you mean Topps #350, it looks like that has gone for $66.50 to $250 without the authenticity guaranteed. Condition varied a lot on these.
There are others but too small a sample size to get a good idea.
Just something to consider.    

You should be able to contact eBay via chat or call here: https://www.ebay.com/help/call_us?type=ContactUs&topicId=4000

As far as keeping the card or refund, that is up to you.

Unless you got the card for cheap, which I doubt since authentication kicks in at $250, I'd return and get a full refund.

Depends on what you consider cheap. An authenticated trimmed sold for $205. Others that have this cards eye appeal are over $400. So $200 is cheap. Plus, given we know PSA had allowed trimmed cards to be graded as untrimmed, we hats the likelihood graded aren’t already trimmed?