Mike… I’m not sure I agree that seller’s greed is an ingredient here. I do think that as the hobby is growing and has become much better publicized over the past year or so, it’s attracting a lot more money into chips. There is now competition not only at the high end but in the middle and low end as well.

What I find interesting is that eBay has, over the past year, gone from being the “wholesale” buyers’ market to the top-price sellers’ market. Most dealers wouldn’t dare mark their binder chips at the levels that the same ones are going for on eBay. Likewise, I know that it has happened that dealers have offered high end chips to their customers, gotten no bites from them, thrown ‘em up on eBay, and the very same customers are bidding the same chips up into the stratosphere.

Make sense?

And finally, Mike, if you take a look at some of the stuff that Mr. Sutton has cited, if you pass those up, it might be a while before you see it again at auction. Those $5 Landmarks, for example, are few and far between.

I do know of one nice one coming up in the club auction, though…but it’s gonna be REAL expensive to get your hands on ;-)