I have thought this for a long time. I think auctions are best suited for:
(a) rare, pricey stuff. The unusual, one-of-a-kind stuff, or close to it;
(b) cheap off-beat stuff
(c) large lots of something you want to get rid of; and
(d) mixed lots that you want to dispose of.

It is pretty silly to list common, current single chips on eBay. In the same vein, I like BPOE chips, but with the time spent bidding and paying (including shipping), it gets tiring. I've decided to wait for the convention or a show and pick up a lot of individual chips all at once.

Some good (?) reasons for putting on the common stuff could be to:
(1) to gather a mailing list of collectors in a certain hobby area;
(2) to direct people to your web site, in effect, advertise yourself and your web site; or
(3) if you are bored and have time on your hands and want the action, want to see yourself "published."

eBay (greedy as always) does not care if auctions are misused. They make it easy to relist stuff over and over. I hate the "free listing days", am overwhelmed with so much listed, so I just skip searching (to some extent) auctions those days.

I haven't looked at the club site recently, but I think it would be a good idea to have segmented category lists of web sites that have sales lists -- to encourage collectors to buy from web sites (of members) rather than eBay auctions. I think that would be a good public service. Maybe charge a nominal fee for the listings.

As far as being inundated with common chip listings, it would be good if eBay broke up the Chips category some more -- say one category for new poker chip playing sets; one category for casino chips that are less than 3 years old (and have an opening bid of under $10.00?); another category for other casino chips; one for poker chips. Who knows. This is difficult and off the top of my head. A final plan would take a lot of time and thought and contributors.

Robert