I just happened to be looking at new posts on ct and Jim had posted a few minutes prior. I am not on any email list and I have never been able to get in on any chips so I went ahead and ordered a small set with out really thinking about it. I went with 300 chips (30/.50, 100/$1, 100/$5, 40/$25, 30/$100, plus a sample set) just to have a small cash set to play with. It came to like $195 or something with shipping. The spots aren't my favorite, and from what I just learned above (thanks Ben, I'll look up how to clean them, with out your comment I might have just started scrubbing) cleaning hotstamps is more of a hassle....but it's only 300 of them and it works out to about .65/chip for a casino from my home state, hotstamped, and Paulson goodness. Not horrible, right??
Like I say, I didn't really think about the breakdown or anything, I just figured I couldn't get hurt that bad. Plus I'm not quite sure how fast these sales go, I've heard the legends of how fast stuff sells out and didn't want to take the chance of not getting some.
Now that I think about it though, I want more .50 chips. Need to find a way to make that happen.