I'm not being hard, just expressing my feelings and my faith in the other Chipsters on the site. If he's really "being straight with me," as you put it,then he should not have any problems with me being straight with him. As a siting Judge, I never held any anymosity with my legal counterparts for expressing a known fact. I did have a problem with them if they were trying to undermine the system, inwhich it was set up to accomplish, Namley to ask for help from your fellow Collectors, without feeling embarrassed. Especially when you are a novice.