Re: CHANGE
808Davo, and everyone else, please take the time to let the strike progran, and the club, workout what is going on and what direction the strikes are going in before making rash decisions about either. Davo, you havwe been a prolific, honest and fair seller of strikes and promoting them with your great Candystore website. I started collecting strikes because they were interesting and had SOME value but no "silver collecter" in their right mind would have ever wanted them for their silver value alone because that would have been a terrible investment. I "like" the old casino $1 slot tokens but they are dying out. I "like" chips but they have no intrinsic value and there are so many. Strikes were and are a happy medium. Wonderful variety to collect. within reason to think you "could" collect a full set. Interesting designs AND a little bit of "real" value in the silver. I will continue and "may" or "may not" collect the HSP strikes. It remains to be seen. BUT I will still be interested in playing for strikes and getting redcaps and $200 strikes in real silver and I hope I will want the HGP strikes too. I don't just collect strikes. My family has always been collecting something since childhood. My dad was big into old barbed wire and would stomp around old fields looking for the 100's of different varieties and learning the history of the designs. He also collected old glass marbles and boy are they ever beautiful. After his death we kept some and sold the rest. Some were worth hundreds of bucks. As a family we collected rocks and traveled many vacations to look for fossils, crystals and various other rocks. Cutting and making jewelry was a great family hobby. I still dabble in it. My brother and I were into coins. Cheap coins as kids and as adults we still dabble in them. I recently bought my first gold coin and what a thrill it is. Avon bottles, Jim Bean bottles and many other things. Little brother had a huge beer can collection and neon sign collection. OLD OLD OLD brother picked up a love for steins while he was in Germany and collects HR steins and Mettlach steins. Old golf clubs, water domes, U.S. Zone Germany items, elongated souvenir pennies, Beanie Babies, Trolls, barbie Dolls, Gnomes, and lots of other family collections. I have a huge occupied Japan collection that I add too almost every week from ebay. I also love Franklin Mint tokens and silver plates. The plates have art, beauty and intrinsic silver value like the strikes but I also like the bronze tokens that do not have real metal value. The point is Dave, and others, give it time. We don't know yet what will happen. OBVIOUSLY the casinos have to make money on it. We want them to so they will expand the program and other casinos will want to start again. Davo out there in sunny Hawaii, you have been a valued member and I, for one, hope you stay with us. AND HEY, THE REST OF YOU, what else do you collect?
