Mike,

I don't remember any actual claim that the coupons had been stolen. There was a thread about Ralph started by Gene in which Gene implied that that Ralph was somehow involved in misappropriating Hard Rock convention chips.

http://www.ccgtcc.com/cgi-bin/mb/webbbs_config.pl?read=13381

But Gene never actually said that occurred and the followup indicated that Ralph had nothing to do with the Pre-Registration packets

http://www.ccgtcc.com/cgi-bin/mb/webbbs_config.pl?read=13394

http://www.ccgtcc.com/cgi-bin/mb/webbbs_config.pl?read=13414