Hi Jim,

"What is the difference in banning slabbed chips from the auction (in which all members may participate) and in banning slabbed chips from the bourse floor (In which only us money grubbing greedy dealers participate by paying a table fee)."

The difference would be the club itself would be selling slabbed chips, making a set percentage profit off of each and every individual sale in the auction. To me, that would be the CC & GTCC sanctioning the practice of slabbing.

...perhaps not trying to put any restrictions on dealers selling slabbed chips on the bourse floor could have a positive effect when they find out that MOST collectors will choose shun slabbed chips. Don't get me wrong on this issue, I'm also totally against chip slabbing. I just think that some of the people who currently think they can profit from it should be given a chance to have the idea shoved completely down their throats by witnessing a real-life reaction to the practice, something along the line of what has been proposed already by some chip collectors, i.e., boycotting (don't buy anything from them, slabbed or not) those who try to sell slabbed chips. If they think they can make more money by grading and slabbing chips, they need to be SHOWN that they can't.

Bob