I've been outbid by the best in the club and I agree with Stu. Why butt heads for a chip, when another is likely to come along some day.

I regret missing one NCV from WI but I can live with it. The first time around, no one bid on a group of chips. The seller put them up again, and I got into a bidding war with another WI collector. Finally I just quit, because it was getting too expensive to drive the price up for ONE chip I wanted, out of a group.

Believe it or not, there are some people who collect WI Tribal Casino chips and need some missing ones. It seems that sellers and dealers alike, just consider them all common junk. This actually makes it harder to find missing chips, because they aren't set aside in books, or seperated from Riverboats and Indian.

The guy who I bought the most from at the Windy City show had a box marked Wisconsin, it wasn't like he wasted his time cataloging junk chips, but it sure made it easy for me to find chips that I wanted. Others had everything from AZ to Maine, in books, mixed, so it was difficult as a buyer to look at every chip, on every page. I probably missed some?

Oh yes, the point was ??? I don't bid against people I recognize unless it's something "I must have" which right now would be one chip that I can think of off hand. (it's never appeared on ebay, by the way) Numbered Red Lon Elko Cowboy Poetry