This may be out of line for me to jump into this but I will, its Friday... lol
This is my opinion on advertising live "not my auctions" on the board. I'm only talking about (LIVE) auctions that are (NOT) from the poster.
I say let board lurkers do their own digging for live auctions. I understand that people want to share info on live ebay chips because they are really cool chips or they have questions about rarity ect, but when they are put on the board, now we are bidding against each other and the price goes up and the members who really collect and seek out particular chips get out bid by the deeper pocket buyers who see the value in the chip for resale.

I was planning on bidding on an ebay auction that was recently posted here on the board, the price went up 3X after the posting and the auction is not over yet. A collector or dealer who doesn't have the time to sort through ebay is now informed on an auction that they would maybe not have bid on because they didn't dig it up themselves.
I guess it doesn't matter if you were not going to bid, however if someone else here was going to bid, the ending price just went up much higher. Ironically the people that got outbid will probably wind up paying even more for the same chip at a later date from the winner.

Just my opinion, and I know it is a little silly/petty, partially incorrect and a little out of line, but I'm sure at some point it has happened to most of us.
Just for clarity... I'm only talking about live "Not my Auction" adverts, not people who are advertising their own auctions, I like them.

Westen