The guys fixing chips are a who's who in our club. Many members are going to get burnt and burnt bad. I will not be one of them. What about you? (you -meaning anyone that reads this post)

I did not write what I am postin below in " ", but I agree, it is the only way to protact our hobby.

"My opinion on this matter which is that it is completely irrelevant what TCR authors place as a value on repaired chips because there value will really be the value of the uncancelled chips because none of us (or none of us without easy access to x-ray machines) can tell the difference.

The only way to appropriately address this in the valuation of chips is to devalue all the chips in uncancelled/undamaged condition that are known to be readily available in damaged/cancelled condition."

Back to me.
Example: There are 3 known "z" chips in uncancelled/undamaged condition and there are 100 know in damaged/cancelled. By the time the fixers get done, there will be 103 in uncancelled/undamaged condition.
How many collectors do you think are going to get burnt for the "z" price in private sales before they realize that all of a sudden there sure seems to be a lot of these "z" chips around?

How many people are going to feel like they've been had right up the old A** and quit the hobby? Do you think the fixers care? They did not care in the brass core fiasco. They only care about the money. Its not a hobby to them, its a bank account.
The main fixer has openly admitted to fixing over 1,000 chips for club members. At a bare minimum there are two additional fixers.

I lost some friends over the brass core fiasco, I'm betting I lose more over stupid little fixed chips.