Appreciate what you offer to the community. Doing this as a vendor is a useful service for people looking for Vegas options.
However I don't see how you dont agree that it makes sense that the price of Paris $1s are going down when supply suddenly is unlimited and even for minty chips. Of course you know this, but previously, before the WSOP, you actually had to spend time playing table games, sort, and maybe end up with a couple barrels or a rack after several hours at it if you were lucky. Sneaking chips out from under the noses of pit bosses and dealers. Obviously it made sense that those chips were the most expensive live Vegas $1s. People were willing to pay a lot more than face value for the time and effort needed to get these chips.
However now with the WSOP, Paris reordered probably tens of thousands of mint chips, and you can simply go to the cage and pick up rack upon rack. No questions asked, no tips needed, no playing of tablea games, no nothing. Maybe you need to stand in a line for a couple of minutes, sure. I assume PCFers combined might have taken 5000 (?) $1 chips out from there over the last two weeks. The number is probably comparable (or more) to all chips harvested from the casino over the last couple of years.
That the price changes makes total sense. For you as a vendor you can probably make up for the difference (or honestly make more money) by simply lowering your price and doing higher quantity. I don't know how many Paris $1s you've sold in the last few months, but if it's a couple of racks at $3/chip (which obviously was fair given the circumstances), that means you have a few hundred bucks of profit. If you simply offer 20 racks now (which you get easily while in Vegas) and sell them for $150-180/rack I'm sure you'll find buyers and can make up the difference by doing bigger quantity and at the same time keep buyers happy. There's many ways to play this for you, but expecting them to keep their value of $300/rack really makes zero sense.
