>>Peter S. Please read my response to Peter Gaby one more time. Evidently you must have missed something.

NO I missed nothing.

>>You've stated your position clearly

Good, I was beginning to wonder. Now that I know that I have stated my position clearly, I guess that it is obvious that the problem here is that you either can't or won't read. (This is evident throughout this "discussion" as your posts are quite often nonresponsive, and you have repeatedly misstated what other people have supposedly posted)

>>First of all, Peter Gaby's question clearly stated "Customer" .... not dealer

If you had read my post then you would have seen that I anticipated your response being that you were buying from a "Customer" not a "dealer".

1) How many chips do you have to sell before you become a dealer?
No don't bother answering it. Just think about it for a while (go ahead take the gum out of your mouth if you find it to difficult to do both things at once). And while you are at it, why would a person slab a chip? So far the only reason I have heard is the belief that slabbing of the chip will make it easier for the chip to be sold later. So since you altered Peter Gaby's hypothetical to include your supposition that the "Customer" had the chip slabbed, then isn't it safe to assume that the "Customer" slabbed the chip with the intent to sell it? And if that is the case, what differentiates him from a "Dealer"?

2) If the purpose of the portion of the pledge where you pledged not to buy ANY chip from a dealer who sells slabbed chips, is to help prevent the spread of slabbing, by creating a financial disincentive for dealers to sell slabbed chips. Why do you think the that same disincentive should not be applied to "Customers."

(Now before someone tells me that selling a $3,000 chip for $1,500 is a financial disincentive, note that the reduced price was not caused by the slab, nor do we have any idea whether the seller in this hypothetical has any idea of the actual value of the chip. Nor do we know what he paid for it.)

The bottom line here Archie, is that you are espousing a "form over substance" type approach to the Pledge. If the Pledge is to mean anything, you shouldn't be seeking loopholes.

Yesterday (It is Tuesday here now), I emailed Andy Hughes and asked him to put me on the list. It was only after much reflection and thought, mostly revolving around the Pledge not to buy ANY chip from a dealer who sells slabbed chips.

Apparently you choose not to give any reflection or thought and jumped on the Pledge. Although in a technical sense you are correct in your distinction between "Dealer" and "Customer" in the pledge, had you given any thought to the Pledge you would have recognized that the distinction between "dealer" and "customer" is not often clear and that for the purposes of ending the practice of slabbing chips, such a distinction is pointless.

So if you want to go about playing silly word games, fine go ahead, but those of us who are serious about stopping the spread of slabbing will not put our own desire to get a great deal ahead of our goal.

You have repeatedly addressed me in a disrespectful tone. I bit my tongue. I asked you politely to stop, you ridiculed that request. Since you obviously feel no need to show me the slightest respect, I no longer will bite my tongue.

NOW WE ARE DONE!