Welcome to This Is Money Podcast. I'm Georgie Frost and alongside me and editor Simon Lambert. Today is consumer expert Grace Gorsden.

And coming up, Grace has been to sniff out eBay's new trainer authentication centre, but will it stop the flood of fakes to the market as sales boom?

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But first, I'll be honest with you, Grace.

I'm not really a shoe person, but I understand there are a lot of people who are, especially trainers,

if you take a look at Instagram,

and not cheap ones either. Some people are even viewing them as investment pieces,

but as with anything popular when it comes to money, in comes the scammers and trainer fraud is big.

So eBay have opened its first authentication centre. It's in London. It focuses on

high value shoes and our Grace went to visit it. Grace, just first and foremost, set out the problem

that eBay is looking to fix. If you're like me and you just think, you know, 60 whatever quid on a pair of trainers, do the job,

you know, is it such a big deal? Well, they are focusing primarily on what they call sneakers.

And I say sneakers, not to be difficult, but I have been informed that if you are someone who is

very interested in high value, what we would call trainers,

even in the UK, they call them sneakers.

And these people are really, really invested in what they do, what they buy,

and basically the whole sneaker culture.

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