"...why on earth would Mr Shoff bother creating a new ebay id just to sell this trash?"

Trash is correct. Roland Shoff is certainly no friend of the chip collecting hobby, nor are many of the others on the chiptalk.net site.

Most of them have the selfish-minded approach that any copy of any chip they can have produced is okay as long as they don't get caught at it. No thought is given to what will happen to the bogus chips in their collections once they lose interest in poker and sell them.

Just my opinion.