Bob,

Below please find your reply to my email in its entirety

As I have stated for the umpteenth time....I have no desire to slab any of my own chips. Yet, I am PRO-SLABBING because I feel everyone has the right to choose!

I understand you and a few of the other members are anti-slabbing... Accepted!

This is not about coins or Beanie Babies

Regardless of whose opinion one wants to accept....Slabbing will enter this hobby. It may not be at the convention, however some promoter will allow it. And some collector that needs a chip for his/her collection that is an R-9 or so (what ever that number means) will buy the chip for their collection.

I genuinely understand all the negative remarks about slabbing.....I understand the position of you, Gene, Archie, David, Greg, and any other members against slabbing. I don't think you are willing to visualize the entire picture. But I will accept your postion.

It seems to me, the bottom line is ...It's not how the chip is enclosed, slabbed, air-tighted, flipped, or whatever, but the rarity of the chip and the price the seller is offering the chip at....

The members are not stupid people...A number of you seem to under estimate that fact.

If a collector wants a chip..you buy it....We have all over paid at one time or another for a chip we needed or wanted

When there are only 5 or less of a certain chip that you collect, if it shows up, you are not going to care if it's slabbed, drilled, or run over a by a bus...If you need it, you will buy it assuming the price is reasonable.

To beat this thing to death is silly. Price will always dictate the end result. Not how something is enclosed

Glenn

Glenn,

I was there when we allowed the legit slabbers to buy tables on our convention bourse floor and participate in educational forums concerning the subject. We gave them the opportunity to present their products, services and opinions as to why their entry into this hobby would benefit the hobby beyond filling their pockets with dollars. It didn't/wouldn't make sense to them to invest in our hobby unless their services became as widely accepted as it had been in coins, ball cards, comic books, or any other hobby in which they'd successfully been involved in unless their services became a common desirable factor at every level of the hobby, i.e., slabbing cheap chips as well as the high dollar stuff, and everything in between. It had to be an all or nothing kind of acceptance by us collectors, and the response to their presence was such that they tore down early at the convention, one actually leaving an entire day before the end of the convention.

I don't like the concept of slabbing in general, due to no guarantees made by those who claim to be in a position to provide accurate info about what they are slabbing. If you can resubmit a coin over and over again until you get the grade you want, the system is flawed in a major way.

Of course chips are manufactured in significantly smaller numbers than coins. That fact alone narrows the field as to who is or isn't an expert on chips.

As to a club policy of disallowing slabbed chips on the bourse floor of our convention. They had their shot at showing us why we needed them, and it didn't wash. Some folks see this as unfounded discrimination. It is discrimination, but nut unfounded. Their products and services are not welcome in that forum by a consensus of the elected BOD of the club, just as a bourse floor table sellers can't, by convention rules, sell coins or Beanie Babies.

Any other questions you might have about my opinions should have been addressed in my post in the thread involving Greg Birdsell that generated your post asking if I read your email.