I have seen you post these sentiments for years now, Mark, but I have NEVER seen anyone put down small town collecting, non-chip casino memorabilia collecting or your ashtray site. So, who exactly are these "Hard Core Chippers" who hate "our" guts? Actually, you have written many negative things about your collecting, often referring to it as "junk," but I have never read it from anyone else. Truthfully, it's pretty tiresome. My advice to Shelbie is to just ignore the negativity and collect what you like. Who cares what others think about it?

JMHO

Michael Siskin