... and as I indicated initially, I think it is well taken. However, I have come down on the other side of the issue largely because of the hypocrisy and disingenuousness of taking the position that the club opposes slabbing but is willing to profit from the sale of slabbed chips (as it would do by accepting dealer table fees from any dealer offering slabbed chips for sale).

>> I just think that some of the people who currently think they can profit
>> from it should be given a chance to have the idea shoved completely down
>> their throats by witnessing a real-life reaction to the practice,
>> something along the line of what has been proposed already by some chip
>> collectors, i.e., boycotting (don't buy anything from them, slabbed or
>> not) those who try to sell slabbed chips. If they think they can make
>> more money by grading and slabbing chips, they need to be SHOWN that
>> they can't.

I'd like to see them learn that lesson, too. I'd just as soon they learn it in some other forum, though. ----- jim o\-S