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davidcyclebackI don't sell graded cards, but I always assumed this policy was in place because, if the buyer has a problem with the grading, his problem is with the grading company not the seller. This is assuming the seller correctly identifies the card and any major unseen problems that are known to exist. If the card is a fake, the seller would have to accept a return even if it is graded.
Many collectors use grading companies as the arbitors of card grade, often sending in cards to a grader in order to check the grading accuracy of a seller and even of himself. So many sellers and buyers will consider the graded cards all ready pre-arbitrated. This doesn't mean that the graders are perfect, but that problems with the arbitration should be taken up with the arbitrator. Unless the buyer has the seller remove the card from the holder and make personal inspection, the seller isn't in a position to grade the card. I assume most eBay buyers would prefer the card stay in the holder even if it means there isn't a second grading opinion or better scan. And by preferring the card stay in the holder, in other words buying graded cards, the buyer is accepting that the grading is taken out of the hands of the seller. In fact, most collectors chose graded cards specificly in order to take the grading out of the seller's hands. By chosing to shift the physical grading away from the seller to graders, the collectors are chosing to shift the responibility for grading accuracy away from the seller to the graders.