Mike� I�m not sure I agree that seller�s greed is an ingredient here. I do think that as the hobby is growing and has become much better publicized over the past year or so, it�s attracting a lot more money into chips. There is now competition not only at the high end but in the middle and low end as well.

What I find interesting is that eBay has, over the past year, gone from being the �wholesale� buyers� market to the top-price sellers� market. Most dealers wouldn�t dare mark their binder chips at the levels that the same ones are going for on eBay. Likewise, I know that it has happened that dealers have offered high end chips to their customers, gotten no bites from them, thrown �em up on eBay, and the very same customers are bidding the same chips up into the stratosphere.

Make sense?

And finally, Mike, if you take a look at some of the stuff that Mr. Sutton has cited, if you pass those up, it might be a while before you see it again at auction. Those $5 Landmarks, for example, are few and far between.

I do know of one nice one coming up in the club auction, though�but it�s gonna be REAL expensive to get your hands on ;-)