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Chip Pricing (1 Viewer)
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Snowden says it better than I could. I specifically like his phrasing "architecture of oppression" and the point he makes about this only getting worse from generation to generation in the future.
yeah .. I don't buy into a lot of that ...and I think that many people have taken his word as fact, when, well .. it isn't
lol.
There is a massive datacenter in UT that exists for other purposes then.
There is a massive datacenter in UT that exists for other purposes then.
Poker Zombie
Royal Flush
I am not chasing black helicopters, but he doesn't say anything that I don't agree with/believe.
What parts don't you believe? I see a guy that left a well paying job in Hawaii and put himself at tremendous personal risk. It seems to me he is telling the truth and doesn't have motivation to lie in this scenario.
i dont care who is listening to me lol, as long as my alexa plays my music 
It's complicated.. I'll just leave it there...
Do an auction and don't charge the high bidder anything. (but don't tell them that until its over)
i dont get that... was tommy response in a PM or somthing? was it a joke? is that why he's doing the auction? if so anyone will just put $1,000,000,000 as the bid and so on and so forth if they arent gunna get charged the extra amount. i dont understand
that is asking for drama. just put em up for sale, first come first serve. but then again its none of my business how someone sell's their shit.
i dont care who is listening to me lol, as long as my alexa plays my music
You can log into your Amazon account and pull up a transcript of everything that was said to the device. Sometimes there are misc recordings because it wasn't sure what was said so it just records. One recording had my 4 year old talking to my wife. Its been unplugged ever since.
Poker Zombie
Royal Flush
Nobody would bid an extraneous amount if they didn't know that there would be no charge.
its recording all of my cardroom transactions.... should make for a good laugh lol
Was just trying to think of some ways around first come, first serve which exchanges chip hands to the fastest clicker/typer/longest lurker. Auctions seem to put chips in the hands of people who really want them, but possibly at a cost. His reply was from a different thread, but seemed like it could be a nice solution for people here who want to offload chips at a fair price.
i wasn't around for the raffle days... why did that get shut down? im curious
Poker Zombie
Royal Flush
I was under the impression that raffles are illegal in most states. Since Tommy gains advertiser monies, he kinda has to avoid allowing the site to be blatantly used as a gambling platform.
I could be wrong though.
I assumed it was a better safe than sorry approach due to legal ambiguity of being the host site of a raffle
"Alexa, what are we going to do tonight?"
"The same thing we do every night.. try to take over the world!"
Here is a quick link to your recordings. Log in to you account first, then use the link.
https://www.amazon.com/hz/mycd/myx#/home/devices/1
Milo013
Flush
But the majority here are yanks, so lets keep it simple for them.Milo, we're Canadian. We don't have Congressmen to write to.
@detroitdad I moved this here as to not trash up @WhiteMamba1646 sales thread.
Who’s cost? Where did you buy them from? What did the person who sold them to you pay for them? Somewhere along line somebody made a handsome profit on those chips. Did you flame the seller who sold them to you or the person before who sold them to the person who sold them to you? Why not?
You say I’m not familiar with selling at cost. Your completely correct, I normally sell at a loss. In the 10+ years I have been chipping I don’t think I have ever made money on any chips before BTP. I’m horrible at business. I would buy high and sell low, but it never bothered me because I wasn’t in it for the money. It’s been more than one occasion when I have sold chips at or below cost via private sale to only see them resold a couple of weeks or months later for a nice profit. It’s just the way things have worked out.
@Poker Zombie pretty much nailed it in the above post.
I have some extra BTP’s for sample sets. What’s the correct thing for me to do with them? Should I have auctioned them on here or eBay for maximum value? Should I have sold them at my cost just to see someone else flip them for “market price”? There are a few people around here that I would have been happy to give and or sell a sample set at cost and spread the chips through the community.
Don’t get me wrong. I’m not looking for anyone’s forgiveness, permission, validation, or the like. I’m a big boy and take responsibility for my own actions. I knew when I sold those sets I was opening myself up to this. It’s just a little ironic how some people get called out and others don’t, especially some of the people talking shit- pot meet kettle.
Bill, just want to clarify that none of this is directed to you at a personal level. I would be happy to buy you a beer and discuss all the woes of the chipping community and how to fix them.
MacGrad
3 of a Kind
Honestly, I'm amazed at how quickly the AS market collapsed if a rack of $5s is now only worth a sample set of BTP.
Do what you want they are your chips.
Not singling you out as I've heard this argument from a lot of custom owners and non-custom owners alike. If anyone wants to get their customs out on the market and isn't looking to gain sky high profits but also doesn't want someone else to turn around and flip them for the same 700-1,000% profit... then sell them and donate some/most/all (whatever) of the profits to a charity. Chips get out there, no one can ever be called a flipper, and some charity gets more funding. Simple, plain, easy.
Lol?
Last sample set of BTP went for $250 and that was for two sample sets. AS $5 in the last auction went for $470 for the rack.
MacGrad
3 of a Kind
It was a comment relating to Mamba's sale thread -- someone offered him a BTP sample set if nobody wanted to buy his AS rack.
I know we chippers can be flighty at times regarding new minty chips, but that would be the fastest I've seen a set fall out of favor.
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AS won't be falling out of favour anytime soon, and if they do then there's something wrong with people. Prices might come down a little, but that set is still one of the best cash sets out there.
If they do fall out of favour then I hope I have some extra spending money, because I'll be snapping them up.
I hadn't seen that comment yet, and I don't know what Mamba's intentions are (or the other party) . With that said, that would be like saying the the BTP sample set was worth $40 because that's what @detroitdad offered. Sold/auctions tell the real story of value. Everything else is speculation.
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