"If they think they can make more money by grading and slabbing chips, they need to be SHOWN that they can't."

Bob, you've raised some excellent thought-provoking points, but the fact remains is that they CAN! Not all these folks who deal in slabbed coins (and some who may add slabbed chips to their inventories when they are introduced) are not above sending out overgraded material, having it returned, sending it out again to another customer, having it returned again, sending it out to still another customer, etc. ..... until it sticks! We're not talking about a box of cereal here.

Those who have taken the position to let everyone do their own thing is a nice freedom of choice issue .... and no one has suggested that individuals can't do what their concience dictates. However, there comes a time when elected club officials with balls must take a bold policy stand to cut off these abuses at the pass. Sitting on the fence and telling everybody that we can curtail this activity through "education" is b.s. Action is what causes reaction... not indifference.

The club currently prohibits the sale of coins, trading cards, and other items at our conventions (nothing says, and no one can prohibit, the sale of these items taking place elsewhere) and it is my personal belief that making a club policy statement that chip slabs are also prohibited for sale at club functions is a step in the right direction. Those who like slabbed chips (whether buying them or selling them, investing in them or collecting them) would be free to do what they want, except at club sponsored functions..... much like smoking.