and have, in the past, railed at those who artificially inflate the price of chips by artificial scarcity -- be it casinos or dealers.

My basic point (although appearantly poorly made) is that one or two well reasoned posts informing the chipping community of what has happened should be enough. Most of us will boycott that chip at higher than normal prices. We do not need to waste space on this BBS with hundreds (perhaps an exageration) of posts whining & cussing & calling names.

The other point was that there seems to be an inordinate delight on the part of several posters in bashing Rene. I do not know whether it is ethnic predjudice, his personality, his inability to use spell-checker or just a general (no pun) dislike of hot dog kids. My point was these others got off pretty easily in the flaming dep't.