I am constantly receiving emails regarding chips..I love it. The past week or so, I've been exchanging mails with a collector who is interested in Derby chips...one of my passions/specialties. After letting him know that I would not sell any of mine, I promised to keep an eye out for him in case something popped up.
It didn't take long for 2 chips on his "want" list to surface, so I mailed him quickly. A quick flurry of emails were fired back and forth, talking prices and so on. One of the chips was at a real nice opening bid and I was considering going for it but I noticed that it had 1 bid. I mailed him once more to inquire about his eBay handle. I let him know that I didn't want to compete with him if that was his bid...kind of an unwritten rule of mine not to try to snake a chip from someone I've been in contact with regarding that very chip.
It turns out that he indeed have the bid so I watched the action as a spectator.
He won the chip.
We then churned out a few more mails...he lives in L.A., close to Santa Anita, and Denny Crum was his father's high school B-ball coach! Small world isn't it?
Posted by mrchipper at March 2, 2008 07:03 PM