Club Desperado - Ceramic (4 Viewers)

[jbriod]

I just bought these on eBay and made a deal with the guy for the chips and not the wood case.
I think these are old Chipco Ceramics of Club Desperado not the Clay version. The colors are nice and have a nice texture. The artwork is very popart-ish to me.
I know they don't sell or produce these anymore.
Any thoughts on design and value?
I think these will be fun to play with

 

[Kid_Eastwood]

I like the theme. Very nice set !

 

[Eastwik]

These are very cool! I've seen them a few times and always liked that design. Nice score!

 

[fish72s]

No idea on value but kinda cool!

 

[Kid_Eastwood]

 

[RichMahogany]

Glad you talked him down. He was asking too much IMO

 

[jbriod]

Glad you talked him down. He was asking too much IMO

He was asking $250 shipped but it came with a mohaghany case and a chris moneymaker signed dealer button. I just wanted the chips.
I got 640 chips for $175 shipped. He sent it priority USPS which is prob around $25
I figure I got the set for $150 shipped which comes to around .23 per chip if I figure I had paid for shipping. Too much for old chipcos?

 

[RichMahogany]

He was asking $250 shipped but it came with a mohaghany case and a chris moneymaker signed dealer button. I just wanted the chips.
I got 640 chips for $175 shipped. He sent it priority USPS which is prob around $25
I figure I got the set for $150 shipped which comes to around .23 per chip if I figure I had paid for shipping. Too much for old chipcos?

Pretty solid price. I saw them about 2 weeks ago and I feel like he was originally asking about 80 cents per chip but don’t exactly remember

 

[jbriod]

Pretty solid price. I saw them about 2 weeks ago and I feel like he was originally asking about 80 cents per chip but don’t exactly remember

I think when they were new they were going for 1.10 per chip. I wasn’t sure what old fantasy chipcos go for but I thought that @ .23 per was a good price. These are novelty and should be fun for cash games. It’s like a retro looking chip and especially nice because you don’t see these that often since they don’t make them any more.

 

[CABRON JAMES]

he originally want like $500 for these - i hammered him down to $300 for the set - my last offer was $225- he countered at $250 and i walked away for about a month.

a month later around dec 5 - probably a week before you bought them I offered him $100 bucks - i told him i though those were chipco chips and that they were worth about .15cent a chip - the high denomination chips probably .30 to .40 cents and the small denomination .10 to .15 cents - he came down to my $225 offer but i wasn't going to go over $200 shipped.... especially after seeing the Freddie's club of Fife chip sell. with chips as low as .10 cents.

glad you got them - they are pretty cool looking chips. if they are all in as good condition as the ones you took pictures of - I think you got a very fair deal.

 

[jbriod]

thanks for the info. Sorry you weren’t able to make a deal. The chips are nice, I haven’t seen many of these for resale. I didn’t know someone else on the forum was interested in these. I thought I found something no one else wanted. Didn’t mean to take your deal but it sounds like they didn’t want to budge on price. I guess I got lucky. I had to go back and forth with him to negotiate. His bottom line was 225. I had to work a deal for just the chips and not the case and buttons. I feel comfortable with the price I got. As all chips go around, I’m sure at some point I’ll put these on the block. If the timing is right and I don’t lose your address then I’ll offer to you first. But that might be a while. Txs for your feedback on the history of the chips!

 

[CABRON JAMES]

no worries - I thought they looked like really cool chips - still do - but no hard feelings - I bought shit load of chips from the chip exchange (garden city) so I really had no business buying the desperados - but if down the road you want to trade them - i can harvest these here in Los Angeles at the Lucky Lady card room Larry Flints second casino here in Los Angeles.