Jim,

It's not Pauls auction. It's a new guy who has been buying up every auction in the last few hours and then puts them in his ebay store at greatly (emphasis on greatly) inflated prices. How abaout a plain generic home poker chip for $19.99. Every auction he has is a BIN or best offer. I bought a few chips from him after making best offers of 30-40% of his BIN prices. I guess he figures that if there are people silly enough to buy at those prices, why not take a chance.

What amuses me the most iswhen you check his feedback you can see all the chips he's purchased & how much for. I thinkone lot of 10 chips he purchased for less than $5 + mailing and in total he wants in excess of $100 for them, and most are common. We'll see how long it lasts.