Thank you Michael. That echos my sentiments very closely. The market will dictate what products are successful, and there simply isn't a market for slabbing chips. Fine points of grade are not an important criteria for truly rare and valuable chips, authentication will always be extremely problematic for new finds regardless of who the "expert" is, and encapsulation is generally unnessecary for chips and actually incompatible with the relationship most collectors like to have with their collections.

The best way to prevent the very real problems that threatened the coin hobby is to remain united as a group. As long as this is a hobby dominated by honest dealers and collectors, we will survive. We will accomplish more by shunning dishonest dealers than by banning slabs.