longer than many members (including myself) and I would trust him to provide a more accurate or realistic "chip grade" versus those folks.

I'm sure that I'll catch he11 for this, but I can understand some collector(s) wanting to confirm that what they have is what they paid for and then having that confirmation sealed up with the chip to avoid tampering. The real problem / dilemna comes in deciding whom do you trust...whom would we ALL trust?? Personalities and motives may weigh in on how someone would "grade" a chip. What if you spent the money to have a "high-end" chip verified and certified and graded and I go to buy it but don't believe "your" certification because I think that your guy's a cheat (please don't think that I'm addressing this to you)?? I don't own any of those "high end" chips, but if I did, I'd want to have it inspected by someone that I trusted for my own piece of mind, but I would never "slab" it becuase if I sold it to you, I would think that you would want to do your own "verification" and in a "slab", that's hard to do.

As to what kind of damage "slabbing" would do to this hobby, I don't believe that we shall ever see its effect. Would I buy a "slabbed" chip or have any of my chips "slabbed"...NO -- for the reasons noted above. Plus, it really seems like a big waste of money...and I'm CHEAP !! Steve B