My understanding of The Chip Rack is that it is intended to reflect the market, not the opinions of the authors – and that the values reported are based on a great deal of research into how much the market is paying for chips. The intent is not to manipulate the market to values the authors “think” are appropriate.

Unless I am mistaken about the above, it would destroy the integrity of the rest of the data in the book if in one or two arbitrary instances (repaired or remanufactured chips) the authors chose to ignore the data from the market and instead impose their views. Any person could write a value guide entitled “My Opinion of what Chips are Worth”, but such a guide would be of very little use.

The right way to bring the value down is to educate the market such that demand for such chips goes away. Most dealers are ethical and won’t sell such chips (or any chips) above a reasonable market value, but there will always be those who will jack the price up as high as they can regardless of the morality involved. The task to educate the consumer market so that the market for these kinds of chips evaporates. At that point, the price will drop in reality – as opposed to simply in opinion.

I certainly have no interest in repaired or remanufactured chips.