... your expectation in this regard:

>> No one is going to slab your average every day chip. ... What will be
>> slabbed are chips that are "worth" thousands, even tens of thousands of
>> dollars.

You should have been at Palace Station. In addition to samples, ICG had a display of chips that they have already slabbed. Some were nice chips, but none of them were in the thousands or tens of thousands of dollars price range. They will slab anything anyone gives them. And that WILL include current LE's (particularly likely for those with short production runs -- such as the Silver Smith Wendover $25 2001 Space Odyssey chip, of which only 35 were made).

Repeating what I posted awhile back -- check out coins -- they are slabbing, right now, the "Live Free or Die" quarters. And lots of other current coins.

>> Come on, guy, these are just little pieces of clay.

True enough, but they are perhaps more important to some of us than others. This IS a threat to our hobby as we know it.

>> The Chip Slabbing Issue? Hey, if it's your chip you can slab it, wear it
>> on a chain around your neck, nail it to your roof, whatever... it's your
>> chip & your business.

I couldn't agree more. It's also MY business whether I choose to do business with anyone who sells slabbed chips. And I choose not. The "free" part of your motto.

>> What is OUR business is an unwarranted attack on a
>> fellow chipper who's opinion differs from ours.

Gene's post was neither unwarranted nor an "attack". Just a simple statement that he was offering slabbed chips for sale. It is now up to each individual who signed the pledge to decide whether he is going to do business with Henry. I choose not. Nothing personal. Not an attack. Just a personal business decision based on what I perceive to be the best interests of my hobby.

----- jim o\-S