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What are some tips and tricks when scanning thicker cards on a flatbed scanner.  At this time I am placing a towel over them to keep from having to lower down the lid of the scanner. (The lid will not lay flat on thicker card and I don't want to risk damaging them.)  The reason why I asked the question is that I have submitted the same card twice only to have it flagged with the reason photographed, but it was scanned. The card in question is a Logo Medalian card from  2021 Topps - 70th Anniversary Logo / 70LP-EM Eddie Mathews Milwaukee Braves SN10.) I've tried scanning it at 600 DPI and then again at 1200 DPI for even better results, but still it gets flagged.  

Any tips and tricks would be appriciated. 

I never close the scanner cover,  I place a lens cleaning cloth over the card i am scanning.

Make sure the card is straight and when you crop, that you see nothing but the card.

I scan at 400x400. If I scan at 600x600, after crop, the file size is over 1MB.

I have scanned the thicker Panini Chronicle cards using this method without issue.

Back when I had a scanner I wouldn't even lay anything over the card, just lid wide open in a dimly lit room worked great. 

I have two pieces of construction paper, one black and one cream colored, If I am scanning cards with a white border, I place the black paper over the cards, colored borders, I use the cream colored. The different colors gives me a good contrast when cropping.

Linking the image for others benefit: https://www.tcdb.com/ViewCard.cfm/sid/259043/cid/15951818/2021-Topps---70th-Anniversary-Logo-Patch-Red-70LP-EM-Eddie-Mathews

From a quick review, it appears your image doesn't even have the top layer of the card in focus, which is likely why it's tagged as low quality. It's normal for the cheaper CIS scanners to blur the logo medallion as it's at a different depth and you need a CCD scanner to get those in focus, but you should still be able to get the rest of the card scanned in clearly. 

Try scanning the card without a sleeve or toploader on the card as that may be causing your scanner's focusing problem.