Again, it's a Catch-22. If they try to get rid of the grade guarantee, they still have to uphold it for all cards currently graded. With the skip-numbering of cert numbers, sometimes it's not possible to tell when a card was graded. They are currently grading with cert numbers around 43,000,000 . But they've previously graded cards with cert number 50,000,000. If those old cards have been reholdered into the newest lighthouse flips, you'd have to look up every single card on their Cert verification before you made purchases.
So if you buy a card, how will you know immediately whether it is guaranteed or not? SGC already has this issue with their slabs because their current ownership does not guarantee cards from their previous owners; how do you know which cards are which?
And suffice to say, if they did this, they'd be admitting that they can't detect alterations. What would that do to their infallible image in the market? Why would someone pay them $5,000 to grade expensive cards anymore if they admit they can't detect alterations anyway?
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PWCC: The Fish Stinks From the Head
PSA: Regularly Get Cheated
BGS: Can't detect trimming on modern
SGC: Closed auto authentication business
JSA: Approved same T206 Autos before SGC
Oh, what a difference a year makes.
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