Before you all jump on this let me preface that I to am AGAINST slabbing.
I am however trying to be a little more realistic, at least I think so.

Every year hundreds upon hundreds of LE's are issued, if one were to consider the amount in vaults, the few in play and those destroyed, the remainder is still a phenomenal amount.

We as members of the club therefore represent only a tiny fraction of the collectors out there considering the amount of chips assimilated into collections on a yearly basis.
When you factor in the amount of us that read the boards its even less.

Unless we decide to spend a great deal of money and launch an ad campaign to try to stop this it WILL happen. Why? GREEEEED.

We say we will neither buy nor sell slabbed chips until the day we discover something that we really need to fill a hole in our collection and then.......

We say we like to handle and hold our chips and we don't like encapsulation yet we purchase limited edition sets that are already encapsulated we store our collections in albums, flips , cardboard holders and lucite discs.

We don't want a grading system but in current E-bay auctions we as sellers use terms such as Mint, Sharp edges, Straight from the cage, All chips mint and individually sealed. Never hit the tables, No nicks, slight surface wear, some gold stamping missing etc. etc. etc.

Are we not also being somewhat hypocritical? Do you not want to know the condition of something you are buying?

I think what we are against here is an outside organization creating a grading system and profiting at our expense... I too am against this.

Perhaps the best offense is a good defense. Maybe we as a club should beat them to the punch and establish some uniform way of determining condition. This might negate the need for an outside grading system.