The club has the option of being in front, being on board, or being left behind. I choose to be in one of the first two catagories, not the latter.

The club had the chance to agree upon a grading system and did not do so, so now it is being left to others, some of who have no connections with our organization.

The club has the chance to team with a grading company on determining standards of grading (and slabbing). The ANA (which this club belongs to) started one of the first grading services before selling it (to the company that now publishes Coin World - a weekly coin newspaper) and made a nice little profit off of it. ANA now endorses a grading service, and makes a nice yearly fee from it. We could do the same.

The club could try and "ban" slabs from chips and tokens, but that will not stoped it, it will just turn more good people off from joining our organization.

Rather, they should leave it up to the individual collector to decide if they wish to buy, sell, trade or collect a slab this or that.

We can all bury our heads in the sand and hope that this will go away. It did not in the coin industry, it did not in the bank note industry, it did not in the sports card industry, as well as others.

My two chips worth.

John