Don, You make some excellent points but I must beg to differ with you on one. Let's say I decide to take a trip to South Africa to go on a lion hunt, which is my only expressed purpose. After I bag the lion, I decide to have some R & R at one of the casinos & buy a few chips to bring back as traders. Do I then include the expense of my travel in the trade value of the chips? I have never done so, even when I went to Costa Rica or the Dominican Republic, or Key West 3 times to get chips from the Max 1. The chips I bring back are incidental to my actual purpose of going. This may be trading myself short, but I normally trade face for face, no matter where the chip is from. I did trade 1DR chips which "cost" me 16 cents for $1 chips that I need. It was hard finding 16 cent chips in the US. See you in Vegas
Bob
BTW: Jewish guys don't go to hunt lions in Africa. It's too hot & you could get eaten alive!