Nice post Pete.
If Al chooses to call it a boycott, Its OK with me.
Call it anything you want to. Whatever it was, it worked.
There were only 2 dealers that had chips slabbed when this thing started. Many more sat back hoping these two won this war. Club members banded together and buried them in their slabs.
More important we convinced the slabbing companies they did not want to invest their money in our hobby.

It might have turned out that way, anyhow, but they certainly heard our side.