"I didn't suggest any such thing. I merely suggested that the marketing strategy being employed here and at the HR is based upon the same principle as TY's marketing of beanie of babies. . . Lets make a few that go up in price so that we can sell future releases to speculators. This is used in other collectibles as well. Do you have a better theory as to why these casinos are doing this?"

Peter; No, I don't have a better theory at all. That's what make it all the more perplexing. It would seem to me that the casino would be more interested in selling 300 chips at $25 each for an income of $7500 for the same amount of work ... (or even less work), than selling 100 $25 chips for an income of only $2500. Where's the marketing strategy there? The casino does not profit one cent from a chip they sold at a gaming table today at $25 that is re-sold by someone else tomorrow on Ebay for $200.