Jim, don't blow a fuse buddy! I've made three transactions in the last five days. Two trades, and sold an auction lot. A lot of plain old trading is still going on. Selling chips is also in my interest. I know you don't sell chips, so there is no profit motivating your participation in our hobby. Frankly I admire the position that you're in. I need at least a little mark up on chips that I have listed for sale. You can find the chips that I have at a sale/trade value example on my my web site, anything not obsolete or retired (i.e. a $1 chip listed at $2 or $3) I'll trade at face. If someone wants to buy these chips, and compensate me for the mountain drives to obtain them, I can't feel any guilt in my asking prices.
As to Mera's comments on sales taxes, I trully wish that intrastate commerence, even at the retail level, would be challenged to the Supreme Court. Any state imposing a sales tax on mail order commerce is unconstitutional. It is the equivalent of imposing a tariff on another state, set by the state of the seller. If the state sales tax in say, Colorado is 3%, and a guy buys something from NJ (with a maybe 6% tax) to have sent to Colorado, should the Colorado guy pay the NJ premium just to buy from that NJ guy? I don't think so. I own a business that does a lot of retail mail order out of state business. The nighmare of trying to keep track of not just each state's tax rates, but providing monthly or even quarterly payments to 50 different entities would require my hiring another person just for that! I can't afford it, so if forced to do so, I'd have to raise prices accross the board. Get the Government out of my face and my wallet! ...sorry, the sales tax issue is a sore spot for me.....

Regards, Bob