"My opinion is formed from 41 years of collecting CHIPS"

Darn, you put my 30 years of stamp collecting to shame. You win. You've humbled me. I reckon you've put me in my place!

"Not many of us go out of our way, and are willing to spend decent money, to collect these things."

There you go, speaking for others again. Seems to me quite a few would like an affordable "mis-spelled" chip. Like your quote however, it's just MY opinion.

"At this time your chip would not even go into my error collection. It is a mis-spelled chip."

You must have an impressive collection of error chips, to not bother even allowing this one to go into your almighty collection. Congratulations!

"When there is proof of how many were made and how many were destroyed, it could possibly become an error chip, depending on how many survived. This proof is obtainable and I am not talking about a box man on the crap table telling someone something."

Thank you for finally admitting it's an error chip! Show me somewhere that the amount of chips left from their original print turns a poor little ol' "mis-spelled" chip into a God-fearin' "error" chip. And, I'm still waiting for you to show me the reference where an "error" chip means it HAS TO BE "SCARCE".

It appears you've let yourself slide into thinking the words "error" and "scarce" are synonomous, which is not always true. After 41 years of collecting chips, I would think you would know better.