Steve Snowden said:..... "But I also resent sellers (and it is usually someone selling chips) contacting successful AND unsuccessful bidders and offering to sell the same chips for the same or lower prices."

"These people make no investment in time or effort and just step in and hawk their chips to a 'ready-made audience'. If they want to sell chips, they should do the work to put up a website and/or do the work and list their OWN auctions on eBay or elsewhere. It takes equipment, time, money, and effort to list an item for auction. Scanning the item, composing the text for the ad, paying for server space to host your scans, answering email questions about the auction, tracking the auction, paying eBay listing and commission fees, etc. all takes time and money. This is time and money that the 'bottom feeders' don't have to put out. They can just sit on the sofa, watch TV, and drink beer - and then when the auctions of others end, they just log on and send emails to a ready-made customer list."

Steve; My view is that no one owns future buyers after ANY sale is over.... or after a convention is over.... eBay notwithstanding. Using your analogy... no one should contact a dealer after a show is over either? After all, the dealer had expenses and made efforts to sell his merchandise and invested in many hours behind his/her table to those visitors in attendance.

There will also be an auction at the Convention. I'm certain, on occassion, there will be a few who may approach underbidders AFTER that sale is over and offer their chips at the same or lower prices to underbidders. How many times have you seen a chip offered for sale with the notation, "sold for xxxxx at such and such auction"? In your opinion; when would it become "o.k." to sell chips to someone else after your ebay sale is concluded?

Somehow, I don't think the bb will "remain quiet" after this post.