... regarding your eBay auction, to clarify that the chip is not from the Hard Rock Casino:

>> He could have made this more clear by using the title
>> "unique HARD ROCK CAFE marblized BRASS CORE chip".

If this won't fit in eBay's allotted space, you could take out the word "unique" to make room for "cafe" and use "unique" in the description.

As for the description, I think you could have avoided much of the negative response to this auction. As I said in my earlier post, I would have liked to have seen:

>> 1) a more accurate description, including a statement that
>> the seller made it himself (inasmuch as not everyone knows
>> that "chip-quest" = David Whalen = maker of these chips);

>> 2) the chip described as a "souvenir" chip, which
>> would accurately state its nature; and

>> 3) the chip described as a "modified" or "remanufactured"
>> chip, including a statement that the original plastic had been
>> removed and replaced with the "craftsman's artistic creation".

While these changes to the description would not win over those who are adamantly opposed to the production of these chips, they would at least go a long way toward eliminating any claim that you are misleading people.

----- jim o\-S