Perhaps you’ve had a recent experience such as mine. I can’t find a good place to for a public shaming post, so I’m making one. I recently purchased what was advertised as 340 MINTY Day Green Starbursts chips from @PepperPaul, specifically to have milled and to use as a simple ante chip for MTTs. I don’t host a ton of tournaments and the antes only use green chips for the first two levels, so it seemed silly to buy super expensive chips. I had advertised in the Wanted section what I was specifically after…near mint day green solids to use with the following set…all other chips are absolutely MINT, so must be near MINT or better.
Since this wasn’t a for sale ad, I can’t even give negative feedback, so forgive the public post, but I see no other options, since the seller is ghosting me.
Here’s what he sent me as an example pic of what he was offering me.
Sweet! A little dirty, but not too shabby.
Here’s what I got.
These aren’t the worst of the lot. Just a random sampling. In fact, the chip on the left is among the better in quality.
I had him ship them directly to Cole to mill and since Cole didn’t know what I was expecting, he happily milled them, billed me his fee for 339 chips (that’s what arrived at Cole’s, but no biggie) and shipped them to me.
So, I’m now in possession of 339 chips not remotely fit for the set intended and that I’m not comfortable even selling in The condition they arrived at my house. I’ve spent probably 20 hours so far trying to make them playable for someone. I’ve gone through the chips one by one with my little chisel to try to get rid of any nasty bits and make them look nicer. I bought a 6L ultrasonic cleaner to do its best to help the cause. Next I’m breaking out the clamps and the 43mm ceramics (ordered specifically for these) to try to correct the warping. No telling how much time I’ll waste to make maybe 2 decent racks from the 339 chips. Too many hours already, by far. And they will never see my labels. No way are these setting next to mint TP chips.
Flash forward to my current offering to @PepperPaul I’ve tried to find a resolution that was amicable and not public, but he refuses to respond.
That was 5 days ago. 2 days ago, I sent him a message saying essentially, just refund me $200 of what I paid you and we will call it good. I offered $450 for two Mint racks. You talked me into taking all 340 for an extra $200. I can’t make two average racks out of this trash, but refund me back to the $450 and I’ll bugger off.
Apparently integrity and reputation aren’t worth $200. That’s not even a buy-in at my game, so I don’t care about the money. Just do something to show you’re not ripping people off intentionally. Nope. So, here’s our dirty laundry. Sorry to air it out in this fashion, but this is something worth warning others about.
I’m sure there will be a few who take exception to my post and I wish I had a better idea. I don’t. I hope you aren’t faced with the options of nothing or nothing good. Those were my choices. Enjoy the $200 and all the great karma that comes with it @PepperPaul
Since this wasn’t a for sale ad, I can’t even give negative feedback, so forgive the public post, but I see no other options, since the seller is ghosting me.
Here’s what he sent me as an example pic of what he was offering me.
Sweet! A little dirty, but not too shabby.
Here’s what I got.
These aren’t the worst of the lot. Just a random sampling. In fact, the chip on the left is among the better in quality.
I had him ship them directly to Cole to mill and since Cole didn’t know what I was expecting, he happily milled them, billed me his fee for 339 chips (that’s what arrived at Cole’s, but no biggie) and shipped them to me.
So, I’m now in possession of 339 chips not remotely fit for the set intended and that I’m not comfortable even selling in The condition they arrived at my house. I’ve spent probably 20 hours so far trying to make them playable for someone. I’ve gone through the chips one by one with my little chisel to try to get rid of any nasty bits and make them look nicer. I bought a 6L ultrasonic cleaner to do its best to help the cause. Next I’m breaking out the clamps and the 43mm ceramics (ordered specifically for these) to try to correct the warping. No telling how much time I’ll waste to make maybe 2 decent racks from the 339 chips. Too many hours already, by far. And they will never see my labels. No way are these setting next to mint TP chips.
Flash forward to my current offering to @PepperPaul I’ve tried to find a resolution that was amicable and not public, but he refuses to respond.
That was 5 days ago. 2 days ago, I sent him a message saying essentially, just refund me $200 of what I paid you and we will call it good. I offered $450 for two Mint racks. You talked me into taking all 340 for an extra $200. I can’t make two average racks out of this trash, but refund me back to the $450 and I’ll bugger off.
Apparently integrity and reputation aren’t worth $200. That’s not even a buy-in at my game, so I don’t care about the money. Just do something to show you’re not ripping people off intentionally. Nope. So, here’s our dirty laundry. Sorry to air it out in this fashion, but this is something worth warning others about.
I’m sure there will be a few who take exception to my post and I wish I had a better idea. I don’t. I hope you aren’t faced with the options of nothing or nothing good. Those were my choices. Enjoy the $200 and all the great karma that comes with it @PepperPaul
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you’ll get your proper rank.
