Another player enters the hipster chip-making fray (1 Viewer)

If this is what he’s peddling, good luck to him. It’s a look that will appeal to some people, I suppose. But for most of us, it’s substance over style, and ceramics don’t offer much there.
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MaxB said:
That's a WTF breakdown :eek:
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This picture would suggest a 40, 120, 40, 40 breakdown. Which makes a bit more sense, but still WTF, if you ask me. 240 alone is WTF. Good for a 4 player cash game, I suppose.
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upNdown said:
This picture would suggest a 40, 120, 40, 40 breakdown. Which makes a bit more sense, but still WTF, if you ask me. 240 alone is WTF. Good for a 4 player cash game, I suppose.
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Thanks for the correction, I got that wrong, fixed OP.
 
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Zzzzzz.

Quite bland design. Quite close to the stock cheapo Scroll ceramics in terms of design quality imo. Definitely not worth the ridiculous high premium they are asking.
Before I drop nearly $2 for a stock ceramic chip design by some random dude, I rather design my own and get them produced even edge-aligned for a bit under $1.

And those Monarchs paper cards are just a stock design (okay custom, but with apparently big supply and low demand) that has been around for a bit already. They are readily available at specialized paper deck shops.
 
I don't want to knock the hustle of an entrepreneur, but he needs to understand the premium chip market he is selling into. Only a handful of us idiots in the world will spend $2+ a chip, and none (or damn close) will spend it on ceramics (casino, custom, doesn't matter). Obviously this guy has a vision, and I hope he swings by for our opinion, but this looks to be a tricky venture. A good start would be to swap out the paper cards with some more quality custom plastics and cut the set price in half. This may not be feasible from a profitability perspective, but at least he will get the attention of his target audience.
 
Is there a market for this shit?
Or, more specifically, are there people who will blow a lot of money on chips just because they look different, but aren’t actually better?
I see plenty of sets like that for sale, I’m just wondering if anybody actually buys them.
 
upNdown said:
If this is what he’s peddling, good luck to him. It’s a look that will appeal to some people, I suppose. But for most of us, it’s substance over style, and ceramics don’t offer much there.
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Yeah, zero interest here in extremely overpriced ceramics with a skull design, fixed crappy set breakdown, and a forced pairing with paper cards.

You'd think that people starting a poker chip venture would perform adequate research to determine the necessary denominations and quantities needed to actually play poker, but most fall into the familiar 1-5-25-100 trap, and usually with the useless "100 of each" breakdown.
 
upNdown said:
Is there a market for this shit?
Or, more specifically, are there people who will blow a lot of money on chips just because they look different, but aren’t actually better?
I see plenty of sets like that for sale, I’m just wondering if anybody actually buys them.
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When I'm looking at all those hipsters needlessly customizing their Android phones with fonts that have crappy legibility and a shitload of other UX-degrading UI mods literally JUST to be different / oh-so-individual, I think there are indeed more than enough idiots with this mindset. What I don't know is their pain threshold for the amount of money they'd have to invest.
 
Yeah, I think instead of finding a untapped market, he found a market that will be pretty bare. I actually don't hate the design, but there is nothing there that screams that kinda price point. That's a 199 set all day for people who don't collect poker chips imo.
 
Good gawd... I hope he shows up here so we can unleash the fire hose on him. He likely won't since he's only a few days out from launch and it's too late to do anything. Maybe he'll show up after he sells a grand total of one set to his mom on Friday.

Edit: owner's response to breakdown critique...

Appreciate your suggestions. It sounds like you have assumed the set is 240 pieces based on your breakdown. Our set is actually 300 total chips (if that matters). Our current breakdown is 1-50, 5-150, 25-50, 100-50. This has worked for a variety of different games. I understand this may not work for all home game situations, but should serve well for collectors and a majority of home games. Hopefully once we grow we can find a better price point.
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Bawhahaha. This guy is smokin'
 
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Well, that was an entertaining read. How can you go into a business venture of poker chips with obviously not knowing anything about poker, chips, cards, poker players, and a poker player's needs. It's great that the guy is trying to ask for feedback but it seems like the product has already been designed and ready to sell before he asked for feedback.

He keeps talking about these chips being for collectors but then talks about how he expects people to use the hell out of the chips. He had no idea the paper cards wear out? He has no idea why people would rather have more low denomination chips than high denomination chips? How much poker has this guy played? And of course its obvious he hasn't done any research into the market itself.

It's just a head-scratcher all around.
 
So the breakdown does work: 1-50, 5-150, 25-50, 100-50

qty 150 ... $0.05
qty 50 .... $0.25
qty 50 .... $1.00

It's a micro cash set o_O

qty 50 ..... the 100's can be a 100 cents bounty chip or show me chips...or souvineirs because they are collectible (y) :thumbsup:
 
MaxB said:
So the breakdown does work: 1-50, 5-150, 25-50, 100-50

qty 150 ... $0.05
qty 50 .... $0.25
qty 50 .... $1.00

It's a micro cash set o_O

qty 50 ..... the 100's can be a 100 cents bounty chip or show me chips...or souvineirs because they are collectible (y) :thumbsup:
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You need to tell him what his set is for because he certainly doesn't know.
 
Not too bad design for stock chips honestly, but also nothing special. Definitely won't have any chipe xberts from pcf buy them, but I think for random poker players/ chip noobs with money to spend to improve their homegame, they might be an option, although pretty expensive. Most poker players have no clue about chips. At least not here in norway. No clubs here have clay chips as far as I am aware. Most serious clubs have custom ceramic cash chips for security, but still just generic slugged plastic tourney chips. Some players actually commented on the plastics as great chips because of their heaviness the other day.....

Obv huge breakdown issues
 
Well, I was curious to see what happened on / after launch day so I made a little reminder. Judging by what I found, launch didn't quite go as expected.

They posted a thread in /r/poker titled "R/poker spoke and We listened- Free Stuff inside", but all of the content was removed by the mods.
https://www.reddit.com/r/poker/comments/7fwt94/rpoker_spoke_and_we_listened_free_stuff_inside/
Th price has been dropped from $425 to $299, (OUCH!)

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It looks someone learned a hard lesson about bringing a product to market without understanding the market. o_O
 
@navels

So I wanted to check in with these guys after a year and it looks like their first run sold out and is discontinued. In the summer, I believe I saw the 300 set for $250 and the breakdown still sucked. They claim that more chip designs are on the way, so we'll see.

I checked out their blog and noticed they sent a barrel of chips for our very own @Hobbyphilic to review. :LOL: :laugh: He gave them some decent comments in a "first look" video so they stuck it on the blog. They added a fake comment to remark on how "picky" he is! I'm really hoping the other shoe drops and you rip them a new one for being a terrible value and crap breakdown. Please link it to the end of the first look video!

Anyway, I thought this was an interesting development.
 
I was going to skip these, but then I saw they had a Skull on it. Now I just need to buy a douch-ey matching Ed Hardee T-Shirt and I'm gold!
 
I'm about as likely to buy that set as I am one of these:

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The Meteorite Set by Stahl has poker chips that are embedded with pieces from a Muonionalusta meteorite found in northern Sweden that is 800,000 years old.

The poker chips are also covered in 18k white gold and lined with pristine diamonds, Burmese Rubies, and Sri Lankan Sapphires. Also included in the Meteorite Set are five Siberian woolly mammoth ivory dice. The 120 chips, five dice, and two sets of high quality playing cards are housed in a briefcase made from Swedish calf skin and reindeer calf suede.

The Meteorite Set costs $150,000.
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