I fully respect your opinion Allan, but I still disagree. If you want to stop this act of fixing chips, you have to make the act either illegal or uneconomical.

If a chip is "perfectally" repaired and there is no way to telling, then it will sell at the price of an uncancelled chip. (I think we're kidding ourselves if we think someone will have a perfect fix and still disclose it.) But, if by using something like x-ray, you can discover it, then I think these chips should be garbage.

I see it like this. You buy a $100 value cancelled chip. The uncancelled chip sells for $250. Question, do you get it fixed for $25?

According to TGT, there is no risk. If its perfect, the perpetrator can get $250 for the chip. If its detectable, they might get $125. No risk.

But, if a detectible fix is worthless, they might think twice about getting it fixed and losing the $100 investment.

Its just my opinion, just as you have yours. My reply to Perlowski's post was not meant to be anything negative about your fantastic publication.