"In his last email to me he said " I will put this fruit cake in his place if you will keep those freaking chip collectors off my back."

That's funny, "fruitcakes and freaking chip collectors". No heroes today, huh?

I will check out the archives, and if I find what I suspect I'll find, I'll go ahead and report the auction to SafeHarbor and get it pulled. Fortunately, the auciton is not at reserve, and has six days to go, so there's plenty of time to prevent an injustice to his bidders.

Nickolas emailed me to thank me for informing him about this thread, and while he's nice and friendly, he still avoids discussing the background of the chips themselves. I'd like to give him until tomorrow morning to voluntarily withdraw the auction.