Ok, Jim now that I accidentally convinced you to support a ban let me ask you a few practical questions.

Under your proposed ban
At the convention may a dealer

1) Grade his own chip and inform buyers of the grade he has assigned.
2) Encapsulate his chip in a hard to open container.
3) Mark that container with his grade.

4) May a dealer submit his chip to a third party grading service that does not encapsulate the chip?
5)May he inform buyers of the third parties assigned grade?
6)May he present the buyer with a certificate stating the assigned grade?
7)May he encapsulate the chip in a cardboard flip, plastic flip, or standard airtight and mark the container with the grade assigned by a third party grading service?
8) Does your answer to questions 4-7 depend on whether the third party grading service charges money for that service?

9)May a seller while he is discussing the sale of a chip, call over a third party (another dealer) and ask the third party to state to the buyer his opinion regarding the grade of the chip?

10) May a seller display a graded and slabbed chip, if he does not offer it for sale?
11) May a seller display a graded and slabbed chip, and offer it for sale on the condition that prior to the change of possession the chip is removed from the slab.

12)In the case of chips where it is known that there exist counterfeits, may a seller present a certifcate of authenticty from a third party?

At this point Jim, I trust you see where this is going and you can ask yourself the rest of the questions in my list.

Note to others, don't just answer them, think about how you would answer the followup question "Why?"