This is article Number 9 directly from the CC & GTCC code of ethics:

To furnish requested advice to the best of my ability and knowledge, and not to take advantage of superior knowledge on my part to the disadvantage of a less knowledgeable collector.

Here is a question I asked a member on the chipboard.

"You really believe you have no obligation to disclose the truth and what you know, as reported by a respected and reliable source to be incorrect?"

This is the members response to my question/post.

"I still maintain that it is none of anybody's business how many chips I purchased, from whom, how much I paid and how much I sold them for. What makes you think that you are entitled to that proprietory information? I may have purchased my chips from multiple sources.

Each time you make a chip purchase Glen, do you ask the seller how many chips he/she has? If so, I wouldn't outright lie to you and claim this is the only one if I had more. I may say "a few" ... or I may say "it's none of your business", depending upon who was asking the question"

So you make your own decision Bryan. All I asked of the BOD was to have the person making that statement retract it. They chose to stand behind the member and let it go.

I might add Bryan this is a person that sells a Price and Identifaction Guide to Collectors.

Glenn