I’m going to assume the “Paulson” in that listing is a mistake. As far as using the word clay on their website, they’re kind of in a tough spot. If the entire cheap chip industry calls their plastic chips “clay composite” or whatever, what’s Apache suppsed to do? Take the high road, call them plastic and sell none of them?
I’m guessing that’s just an error. It looks like all of their auctions have that modifier, whether they’re Paulsons or not. Probably used the option to list an item based on a previous auction, so it retains all the info. No excuse, but likely a oversight.
I hope that is it. But I see way too many non-Paulson eBay ads put Paulson in the description to get more views n
Depends entirely on whether or not they want their sales text to be factual and accurate or false and misleading.
Very well said sir.
It's a "Won't Somebody Think of the Children!?" moment.
Perhaps my opinions are in the minority, but I don't think that the rise of CM copy chips are necessarily a really bad thing. With our hobby growing as fast as it is, and there being a finite amount of Paulson clay chips in the wild, perhaps it's a good thing that there's a new, cheaper option to help balance out the supply issues. Imagine if CM didn't exist and our hobby kept growing at the pace that it's growing at. It would be extremely difficult to purchase the chips that were once easy enough to acquire only a few years ago.
I don't think a bad thing at all. There's thousands of chip buyers here alone, anything that happens will be bad for some, good for others.
Agree with this one.
Feel like my no molds have developed more spinners as theyre used; low values have a bunch of instability, while the $5s (that I rarely use or shuffle) have 0 spinners. Assume this is from use and quality control. I dont mind spinners much but if its a dealbreaker it should be known.
I wonder why that is.
This 100%. Cheap chips bring people into the hobby. New members here want to know what all the fuss is over real clay Paulsons, CPCs and the many vintage molds, as well as premium ceramics and plastics. Some will always just be satisfied with the cheap chips, but others will want to move up. The demand for premium chips will always grow along with the growth in the numbers of people in the hobby. Now if people start leaving the hobby because there aren't enough low cost options, then that is when prices for premium chips will also drop.
I'd have to search for it. It's just something that I've noticed cropping up in discussions, especially in conversations. I think for the most part it's only affected people who play with their chips weekly and it's their only set. Those, like me, that rotate them in, haven't seen any degradation yet. But there are definitely threads out there where people mention it. I've heard of spinners and I've heard of the texture on the CM chips just breaking down.
There’s always someone. I ordered my set after playing with the Parks & Rec set at the Stockholm meet-up.
They weren’t custom. That’s the hook here imo.
I have someone’s custom sample, and yeah they look/feel fantastic compared to other entry level stuff.
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