More rules, make more loopholes. More regulations, make more offences.

Please be very careful if and when the new rules come out, that we don't find all sorts of pits and traps.

I'm especially concerned with how to define repair and restorations which will be legal and illegal. Lots of specifics and definitions.

I don't know what is missing from the current rules, since something as simple as deception, lying and selling forged and faked chips "without disclosure" or without selling reproductions, clearly marked as such, indellibly, would be more than enough.

Dive into the hobby protection act and see what's going on. Fake railroad china (very collectible and expensive) has a label saying it's a reproduction. Totally legal. The next person peels off the label and sells it as real.

Fake reproductions without a perminant marking of some sort, means we have created a false sense of trust, and returned to where we are now. Those who know, are aware of the problems and fakes, those who don't have deep knowledge, may be subject to buying fraudulant pieces.

How do you enforce "knowingly selling" when the chip can pass from friend to friend, hiding the trail of ownership. Or maybe an innocent buyer who later sells it as real? Who do you penalize when there's no trail?

So back to the original simple point. Be very careful of what you add or expand upon. It could make the problem worse or make may of us into ex members. I collect fantasy chips, and when I can find a forgery I'll collect that as well. Borland chips come to the immediate surface.