Pretty funny. In case anyone wonders, my position is simple. (like me?) The club can ban anything it wants at it's own shows. Let the market decide otherwise. I'm against any boycotts or rude campaigns. (but in favor of the "list")

I've held my tongue for many months, but Rene - take a lude, dude! Just take a deep breath and shut up for awhile... PLEASE?

And now for your enjoyment, from the card collectors, just one more testimonial against grading, slabbing and whoever the elite are. I don't think we have that later problem with chip collecting. The dealers, authors, collectors, officers I have met and know of are 98% honest nice folks. But if there's enough money in it, someone will schmuck up the whole deal for the rest of us and ruin it. You know the type, always some scam or edge, always promoting and pushing? Always pushing everyting to the ethical limit, and backing up when they hear the screams...

This is an excerpt, the link to the full article is at the end. Enjoy!

James McCay, who calls himself "The Card Cop," has been a thorn in the sides of manufacturers, dealers, card graders and those he calls the "hobby elite" for as long as I can remember.

As a self-anointed consumer hobby advocate, McCay has initiated an ongoing series of battles with those he sees as the bad guys in the hobby power structure. While he sometimes tilts at windmills, his is basically a voice of concern.

McCay defines the "hobby elite" as price-guide publishers, card manufacturers, grading companies, big dealers and distributors, and writers. He says the "elite" need to sympathize with collectors and, better yet, listen to them, read Internet message boards and open a line of communication with them.

**** The graded-card infatuation also is seen by many, this writer included, as a bad thing for the hobby. It has priced the collecting of sports cards out of reach for many. Complaints often are heard from collectors who send a mint card to a grader only to have it come back undergraded and not in the condition it was sent in.

Grading also differs among companies (a 10 from one company is an 8 from another) and, worst of all, there is the supply-vs.-demand curve that is now resulting in a lot of high-priced graded cards gathering dust in dealer display cases.

http://dailynews.philly.com:80/content/daily_news/2001/02/01/sports/TAYL01.htm

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Vote with your pocket book. Hey dealers, read this again, the last part. It only hurts everyone. So much for the claim that someone was making here, that "all the good" it did for the card collectors." Yea right... The picture says it all.