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Bottom of the NinthNot sure that Leon's reply from SGC was necessarily just referring to liability while handling the card or the storing of the card while at their office. There is an inherent risk in grading a card today that later on may be determined not to meet the standards consistent with the assigned grade or turn out to be altered in some way.
While $100 is a chunk of cash to pay for the grading of a card it really is a drop in the bucket considering what the cards are worth and what we have been selling them for over the last several years. Grading companies pretty much get one shot to earn on a card whereas the owner and subsequent owners can continue to earn and earn in a more material fashion.
Personally I was wondering when the day would come that PSA, SGC and GAI would impose a sliding scale based on the value of the card being submitted. I know they have held off as it once thought it gives a sense of impropriety—as if you are buying a grade predicated on what fee you are paying.