#2 On your list will most likely be your business partner should you have one.
Otherwise I suspect your list will remain quite short.

You say
(1) We will not be told what to do.

Nobody on this board is telling anyone what they HAVE to do.

(2) We will make up our own mids

We already have 405 of us, of our own free will have taken a pledge not to engage in slabbing or support it in any shape or form.

(3) We Will buy the chip...not the flip, holder, airtite or slab in which it resides.

We already do this now, and we certainly don't pay a premium for doing it with the excess baggage of a slab.

(4 & 5 ) The choice of joining the list or with whom one trades is an individual choice. There are many club members who have chosen not to be included for whatever reason. NO ONE forced them to join, nor is doing so now.

I suspect that with the auctions you have had in the past, and the response to those must have had some impact on this open letter.
I now see that you have started to offer your items at VERY low prices yet the response you expected still is not there.
I would strongly suggest that the boycott by fellow chippers like myself who feel that slabbing is a pox on this hobby has a great deal to do with it
I propose to you as a business man to quit the practice of slabbing chips as it is evident that it is having an economic impact on your business.
It is never to late to return from the dark side