CrazyEddie
Full House
Whatever their rating might be, it's too high.
Are Paulsons overrated? (1 Viewer)
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LeLe
4 of a Kind
HahaOk.. so I just got my Paulsons in the mail, courtesy of @FestiveKnight (great condition btw! very happy!) and up until I opened up the box to play around with them, I was always wondering what all the fuss was about Paulsons. I had always been happy with my Ceramics and China Clays. Now I may as well throw everything else out and keep buying Paulson chips/sets.
same thing happen to me for my China Clay and off they gone once I had my Paulson Set;However, I still like my Card mold ceramic plus their pricing is unbeatable too
Captain_Obvious
Sitting Out
BWAAA HA HA HA HA! "Veteran chipper"?? Does that make you a "for realzies man"? LOL. What a pathetic basement dweller.
Ok.. so I just got my Paulsons in the mail, courtesy of @FestiveKnight (great condition btw! very happy!) and up until I opened up the box to play around with them, I was always wondering what all the fuss was about Paulsons. I had always been happy with my Ceramics and China Clays. Now I may as well throw everything else out and keep buying Paulson chips/sets.
WHAT HAVE I DONE?! lol.
Seriously though, I have HSI chips and holy crap they are a cut above anything I've played with. Which brings me to a question... do I need to oil Paulson chips at l
No you dont need to - hand oil over time will work but you can oil them - apache poker chips has a way to so it on their website.Ok.. so I just got my Paulsons in the mail, courtesy of @FestiveKnight (great condition btw! very happy!) and up until I opened up the box to play around with them, I was always wondering what all the fuss was about Paulsons. I had always been happy with my Ceramics and China Clays. Now I may as well throw everything else out and keep buying Paulson chips/sets.
WHAT HAVE I DONE?! lol.
Seriously though, I have HSI chips and holy crap they are a cut above anything I've played with. Which brings me to a question... do I need to oil Paulson chips at all?
PhillyB
Straight
Took you a day to answer uh, and few hours after you “haha”‘ed it, you must lack in the brain cell department Captain keyboard warrior. To be fair, No, I am a veteran chipper too, and eeettt, wrong again, I’m a huge house and property dweller ahthankyou, I mean I have a f*cking life sized Santa sled in my living room, might have to call you to shovel my driveway knowing I have a friend that does it for free, I have 8 cars coming today so make it snappy and I’ll toss you a Paulson chip that my 6 y/o son doesn’t want in his $3000 collection because he likes the fancy colors, sound good sweet cheeks?!. I fed you the left over meat loaf, now be gone.
PhillyB
Straight
I’m waiting?
I’ll give you a sleigh ride after
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I’ll give you a sleigh ride after
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Thisfiendis138
Full House
Snow is actually not that bad. Shouldn’t take him to long, after all he’ll have to snow shovels to use. The standard in his hands and the mega plow he can simply attach to his anal beads.
F that dude for real
PhillyB
Straight
Agreed, I just can’t stand when people come in and disrespect people especially people who have been in this a long time.Snow is actually not that bad. Shouldn’t take him to long, after all he’ll have to snow shovels to use. The standard in his hands and the mega plow he can simply attach to his anal beads.
F that dude for real
I was thinking a spoon, ahh, a Christmas spoon, just for the season to be jolly.
Thisfiendis138
Full House
Yup. I don’t think you and I have interacted before in PCF, but his posts rubbed me the wrong way (unlike him with his special snow plow)
And a jolly Christmas spoon would be perfect!
With mistletoe and a lump of coal attached
PhillyB
Straight
I’ll hold the mistletoe over my bum.
I think we spoke about Maryland $2’s before and about harvesting them and how they feel etc.
Anyways, all the best to everyone this holiday, be safe and may the new year bring you luck at the tables.
Thisfiendis138
Full House
Oh yea! MD live! Drops. Man those are some sweet chips. Never did get ahold of any. I few racks have popped up for sale in the not so distant past
Happy holidays to all!
PhillyB
Straight
Love them, light but great colors, will fit my customs perfectOh yea! MD live! Drops. Man those are some sweet chips. Never did get ahold of any. I few racks have popped up for sale in the not so distant past
Happy holidays to all!
Not a bad markup (10%) for live chips tho?
(Why are the live $20s so “cheap” compared to the live $1s in that listing?)
(Why are the live $20s so “cheap” compared to the live $1s in that listing?)
LeLe
4 of a Kind
$1 is mark up at 85 or 95c per chip $20 is mark up at $2 per chip
so $20 is actually more expensive compare to $1
Since these are live chips, I was looking more as by percentage: $20 is marked up at 10%, while $1 is marked up at 95% (85% full set discount) for Excellent condition, or marked up 55% (45% full set discount) for Very Good condition.
Since they're live, if (for some reason) you cashed in the $20s you'd lose much less money than if you cashed in the $1s. But maybe that's the wrong way to look at this, since who buys live chips at a markup to cash them in...?
Stufflymcstuff
Flush
if that’s your philosophy I’d be happy to buy some fracs off you for a whopping 100% markup. Double your money!
I get your point. Obviously fracs are worth more than face value in just the cost of making the chips, but wasn't sure about the dynamics for higher value chips.
Just trying to get more understanding. I'd think it's harder to harvest higher value chips, but maybe not. Probably harder to harvest mint(ish) lower value chips, and at higher quantities, so maybe that accounts for that. Still learning.
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LeLe
4 of a Kind
It easier to harvest GC $20/$100 compare to $1 / $2 from what I heardI get your point. Obviously fracs are worth more than face value in the cost of making the chips, but wasn't sure about the dynamics for higher value chips.
Just trying to get more understanding. I'd think it's harder to harvest higher value chips, but maybe not. Probably harder to harvest mint(ish) lower value chips, and at higher quantities, so maybe that accounts for that. Still learning.
I think it a common mistake to think as mark up rather than cost per chip as we tend to think of mark up 1st in real life situation
Stufflymcstuff
Flush
It’s not harder to harvest higher denoms, no. It may be easier since no casino will ever take issue with it. They also tend to be in better condition. And you don’t tend to sell huge numbers of them.
Why do they sell at a higher dollar premium? They’re less common because very few people carry them, and the people who are in the market for $20 chips tend to care less about price differences so its worth setting the price higher in the hopes someone might happen to want it ASAP. But Vegas harvesters will happily oblige for less than $2 a chip profit I’m pretty sure (maybe not during lockdown).
Why do they sell at a higher dollar premium? They’re less common because very few people carry them, and the people who are in the market for $20 chips tend to care less about price differences so its worth setting the price higher in the hopes someone might happen to want it ASAP. But Vegas harvesters will happily oblige for less than $2 a chip profit I’m pretty sure (maybe not during lockdown).
As with so many things in this hobby, understanding comes with time. There aren’t any price guides. If you want to get more understanding, read everything that’s been posted on these boards for the past year or two. I know that sounds crazy, but it’s really not - nobody ever became an expert on anything overnight.
And by the way, I’ll still crack up - so often, you’ll see people spend tens of thousands of dollars on chips here, but then they’ll make a comment or ask a question, and you’ll realize they don’t have the first clue about chips - so don’t feel bad. Plenty of guys are in the dark and many of them are in deep.
If you have a question about a particular chip or a particular transaction, ask people who have been here for a while, either by posting the question or by PM. Most people are happy to give you an answer or an opinion or whatever. But if you really want to understand the hobby, you have to put in the time.
Thanks, I get it. And I'm not too shy (online at least) to not ask "dumb" questions, like about why the markups on the chips different so much (as a percentage of their face value for the live chips in question--if they weren't live, I wouldn't necessarily have questioned it). Like I had asked why the live Choctaw fracs went for 7-8x face value and got some great answers (besides "blaze"). Slowly but surely learning...
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