[davejs1671]

I was loooking on Ebay and came across this auction for 100 Sands chips. I thought maybe a few people might be interested in checking it out also so here is the link.

SANDS Casino Chips Las Vegas, Mystery Auction100 Chips - eBay (item 360020084033 end time Feb-09-08 18:45:05 PST)

[cleverpiggy77]

It has bids??!?!? and there are no clear pics of the chips?

[imperial10]

Nice chips??? I think they are nice anyway, I can't really tell by the pictures. All I saw was a metal box and an old picture of the casino. But if they are real then sweet I wonder which version it is.

Mystery chips???
Oh I hope it's not the chip with like 8 different casino molds on it. You know the souvenir chip. All these bidders are taking one hell of a gamble.

[on tilt]

Some people have more money than sense. If the seller won't clearly identify what he is selling there is a reason, and I can't imagine it being a good reason. I'll be avoiding this one.

[jdunford]

Well, Paypal gives up to $2000 in buyer protection... and I'd have to assume that if he was lying with either of the following statements, you could return them at the seller's expense:

3) These chips are listed in "The Chip Rack" and "The official U.S. Casino Chip Price Guide".

6) The full asking price is less than one third the price listed in "The Chip Rack" (June 5, 2002 edition).

Has anyone bothered to go through The Chip Rack (June 2002 edition) to find which Sands chips were listed at > $48 each?

He's got 100% feedback over > 900 sales... that's gotta count for something. I haven't bothered to look at his previous auctions to see if anything else went for > $1000 (mainly because I have absolutely 0 interest in bidding on this). Sands (LV) chips typically go for $20+ on ebay. Unless these are AC $1 chips or something... That would suck! (but then he'd be violating 6) ). Also, you have no sense of condition from his pics.

I'd also be worried that there are 5 Sands chips along the side of the box (shown in one of the pics), and the other 95 chips are junk. Then he'd still be telling the truth (at least partly).

[stardust]

Well, from a seller's perspective... why would you want to run an auction that way? Why would you want to pass on 2/3 of the market value of the chips? Doesn't make any sense to me.

[nelohalo]

It doesn't look like the chips have edge spots based on one of the last pictures. Also, the $500 chip is probably listed as such when in mint condition, but it is probably in bad shape.

[dap325]

Holy crap. I saw this auction when it was at $15.. I can't believe the bidding has gotten that high.

[Riculus]

Claiming mint condition, there probably pretty sweet. Too rich for my blood. I don't understand the discolored pictures.

[Jonah 99]

Looks like the pictures came straight off a TRS-80 or a PCjr

there should be an archive thread that just tracks suspect auctions, like that one for the $5000 casino chip found in the limo, I wonder how that turned out (at least that one had a picture of the whole chip)