Steve wrote:

Grab a couple of the club's "Charter Members" at one of the conventions & listen to them talk about the old days. I love listening to some of the "old-timers" (many younger than I am ) talk about going to shows & trading "stack for stack". And each one of them loved collecting that way. But just like what has happened with baseball cards, you bring in a high dollar factor & then it becomes more business than fun.

Can you imagine if Dr. James Beckett said:

Maybe putting values on cards which caused others to join our once small hobby ruined it with big prices not everyone can afford.

I will chalk up the unfortunate choice of words to Mr. Campiglia being sick and tired of that one person continuously hounding him over and over again here on the Chipboard..that can't be any fun.

I'll just leave it at that, and say that I too am very sad that a new edition of the U.S. Casino Chip Price Guide won't ever again be published..