I think these are exceptions, rather that the rule. No one is stupid enough to pay $10 to have a card graded and then sell it for $5. I believe some of the newer companies had a promotion and gave away some of their cards free already graded. I would guess these were like that. If you or any other chip collectors are stupid enough to pay $10 to get one of your LE's graded, and then try to sell it for $7, then and only then will LE's get slabbed. You aren't even going to spend $10 to get a $50 chip graded unless you can sell it for $60 or more. Use your heads, if you buyers of Le and common chips won't buy slabbed chip, no one will get them graded. If someone like me, who buyers an expensive $1000 chip and I want it slabbed, why shouldn't I have a right to do it? How is that going to affect YOUR hobby? No one is stupid enough to spend $10 or $20 to grade a chip unless they can make a profit, and to do that the chip is going to have to be like $200 or more. You ANTI-SLABBERS have tried to protect YOUR hobby, but have picked on everyone expressing the other view. Everyone has a right to chose. Give them that right. Just don't buy them if you don't like them, but you can't deny someone the right if they do want to buy them. Trust me the coin and baseball card market are far from dead and ruined. They are much different. It is not unusual for a slabbed coin or card to sell for $1000. This hobby only has a hand full of those kinds of values. The chip that just sold for $15,000 on eBay was probably the biggest news of the year. In coins or baseball cards, a price of $15,000 wouldn't raise an eye brow. You guys fighting it will not be around when prices on chips get to the extent of coins or baseball cards. Remember coins have been around as an organized hobby since the early 60's and baseball cards since the early 70's. Chip collecting began, I believe. in the mid to late 80's. Things will soon happen to chips like the the other hobbies. Over grading, over pricing, doctoring, people not shipping chips after receiving money. This has happened to every hobby once prices got to a certain level. This club will not be able to police everyone. You will one day welcome the slabbers to SAVE, rather than destroy this hobby. Better to have the now, rather than later when it may be too late. These guys aren't grading 100,000 coins per month or 300,000 baseball cards per month unless there is demand. Why is there this much demand? Can you explain this? These figures are per month now, not per year or per decade. Why do so many pay for this service? 100,00 coins and 300,000 baseball cards per month. Explain to me why if it has hurt the hobby. Who has it hurt?