As far as we knows, some people in Hernando, Ms while doing some kind of work in an old factory found a huge amount of chips buried in concrete. We must rely on the low informations they are telling us, i'm not yet sure on the number of the persons selling this stuff now, since every hour some new ebayer comes out. And maybe some ebay account is handled by the same person/s.

I fear we will never know how this had the start. Sure is that the massive invasion of this chips have knocked down the market value. As far as i know there are thousands of chips flowing from Hernando. I have no idea of what people will do with a set of 200 or 2000 chips, if they hope to make big money the are wrong, if they just want a cool chip set for house poker they are right.
We, the collectors, we could only sit down and wait, i think after the first wave chips will flow for long time, and prices will go down to $5-10 each. I like PB chips, i remember when i started to collect, someone told me about my main focus on PB... well it's nice to have now a way to fill holes in my collection without giving away hundred of $. I will be happy with my PB chips, even if i will have spent $100 to complete the set.