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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;19Lyds, post: 2131762, member: 15929&quot;]No argument here.</p><p><br /></p><p>You DO recall why this &quot;handling fee&quot; was implemented in the first place?</p><p><br /></p><p>If not, let me share my memory.</p><p><br /></p><p>Back around 2005 PCGS decided that too many &quot;Single Coin&quot; submission were coming in and clogging the system. A handling fee of $5 was implemented for every order which was of 4 coins or less. If 5 coins were submitted, then no handling fee was required.</p><p><br /></p><p>The only exception to the &quot;less than 5 coins handling fee&quot; was if a single coin quarterly special was being submitted. PCGS &quot;used&quot; to offer Quarterly Collectors Club Specials such as Submit any Kennedy Half Dollar, or any coin with a date ending in 61, or any coin produced during the 1800&#039;s, and so on. No handling fee (nor grading fee) was required for these CC submission.</p><p><br /></p><p>After a year or so, the handling fee became a permanent fixture regardless of how many coins were sent in.</p><p><br /></p><p>When Willis took over, the fee got bumped to $8, quarterly specials became &quot;4 for the price of 3&quot; and free submissions &quot;STILL&quot; required that stupid handling fee which, technically, should be a part of the grading fee.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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