Maintaining extrude and bevel effect

I am currently designing a logo with the extrude and bevel effect. It is fine at full size, but when I copy and paste it and scale it down for another file--a.e. a business card--the effect is lost.
Why is this happening? Do you have to apply the effect seperately when the object is rescaled?

This is another option of scaling effects but it slows down the computer when it comes to more than one applied effects. That's why I told him to expand the effect. Of course when expanding he can't edit effect's properties.

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Oi
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Hi John and DrStrik9 – thanks for your suggestions
Examining the path does not reveal any oddities – none that catches my eye at least. I have tried expanding the effect, and it clearly shows that AI has chosen to make some sort of transition on that precise spot.
The peculiar thing is, that when I rotate the whole thing (non expanded effect), the artifact moves along the path, still keeping its position in the upper right corner. This implies to me, that this issue has nothing to do with a defective path.
I have attached a screen shot og the expanded effect.
What do you think?

Maintaining extrude and bevel effect

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