[chipe]

For the past months as I would search for chip and casino items, I see loads of these auctions and buy-it-nows for "collectible" Razor brand signature trading cards, and James Bond trading cards with titles like this: "Casino Chip Relic Card RC6 from The Complete James Bond 007 Trading Cards." In case you haven't seen them, here is a link to a sample Razor card, and a sample James Bond card. I know nothing about them. The auctions are not too clear. They scream "rare" and "limited". To me they are a joke. Does anyone take them seriously? Are these real people bidding? The Bond cards are supposed to have pieces of actual prop chips!!???!! The Razor cards have pictures sometimes of head shots of people who are not even shown gambling, and the autographs appear to have been signed on transparent tape and then put on the cards. Some are bid up to high prices -- way over $100. To me it is funny that the James Bond cards seem to have pieces of a chip on them (incomplete chips), yet they call themselves "the Complete James Bond Trading Cards."

Robert

[bjjensen]

Originally Posted by chipe

For the past months as I would search for chip and casino items, I see loads of these auctions and buy-it-nows for "collectible" Razor brand signature trading cards and James Bond trading cards with titles like this: "Casino Chip Relic Card RC6 from The Complete James Bond 007 Trading Cards. In case you haven't seen them, here is a link to a sample Razor card, and a sample James Bond card." I know nothing about them. The auctions are not too clear. They scream "rare" and "limited". To me they are a joke. Does anyone take them seriously? Are these real people bidding? The Bond cards are supposed to have pieces of actual prop chips!!???!! The Razor cards have pictures sometimes of head shots of people who are not even shown gambling, and the autographs appear to have been signed on transparent tape and then put on the cards. Some are bid up to high prices -- way over $100. To me it is funny that the James Bond cards seem to have pieces of a chip on them (incomplete chips), yet they call themselves "the Complete James Bond Trading Cards."

Robert

The James Bond chips are actual chips from the movies, at least where the Licence to Kill and The World is Not Enough chips are concerned. The Casino Royale chips seem to be prototypes never used in the actual movie.

You are correct that the chips are only half there-- I guess if you cut them in half you can get twice as many. So you do get a complete James Bond trading card, but it only comes with half a chip . I would say that the majority of bidders are card collectors, rather than chip collectors, since as you note the cards seem to go for a lot of $.

As an example, it was not uncommon as recent as earlier this year to see a set of 4 chips from The World is Not Enough go for around $80-$100. However, I have seen 1 of the same chips, cut in half and glued on a 'limited edition' relic card, go for more than $500. The same thing, although to a lesser degree, has happened with the Licence to Kill relic cards, and what I have seen the actual chips get when not glued on a card.

Not to disparage anyone's collectible, since any of this stuff (including any chips that I collect) is only worth what someone else will pay for it, but it's been interesting for me to see what happens in these instances when someone slaps the term 'limited' on it.

bjjensen

[chipe]

there must be a lot of shill bidding on these Razor cards (I didn't check out the Js Bond cards). I just looked at completed auctions. Half aren't getting any bids, even with a 99-cent opening bid. Those that sold -- a lot went for 99-cents, many went for a few dollars and under. Last night a lot of 135 (85 different cards) went for $465. Junk, in my opinion.