Nice to see your side of this drama Ken.

This part was of particular interest. You wrote:

"I bought multiple auction lots.
I asked the seller about combined shipping charges.
The seller refused to reduce shipping charges based on his savings from combined shipping.
I then asked the seller to ship each chip seperately. No combined shipping charges, no combined shipping.
In each case the seller charged me two or three seperate shipping charges, and shipped only one package.
I left negative feedback."

If a seller is going to charge full shipping charges on multiple lots, they damn well better ship each lot separately if they are unwilling to combine/reduce charges for a single package. If they won't, what they are doing is not only ripping off a customer, they are ripping off what was and will no longer be, a good customer.

....had a feeling if someone who calls himself colonel bingo (or whatever) was involved, there had to be more to the story.