Does anybody care what's on ebay? (1 Viewer)

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I'm fairly new here and have bought some chips on the Classifieds but also a few from eBay. Most of what I see there are barrels of popular chips and sets of 300 to 500 chips. Also, singles with the 'rare' adjectives. Prices go from almost reasonable to whatttt????, obviously somebody with a hook out looking for a fish or a collector that really wants what he's selling.

Anyway, I wondered if there is a forum thread to alert people to interesting offers. I wan't sure about posting on classified so I'm asking here. What got me thinking about it is a posting for a set of PNY, 1237 chips for $15K. Seems very high but by definition none would have been played except at home.

So would people here like an area to be alerted to interesting eBay (or other) offers or is it just too much noise?
 
Many of us here that are building racks that take years buying singles do indeed buy off eBay... but you have to purchase them with the understanding that "those" projects will never get you a full return on your money... basically only build one of a kind racks if you are planning on keeping them forever!

There are many chips that I pay $25 - $50 and even $100 plus per chip that on here would never bring that. Many chips that even chip collectors wouldn't understand, but that is where you take the hobby to the next level of having things that no one else has... but again I don't recommend collecting or building them just because. You are pretty much married to them forever or taking a huge loss if you change your mind!
 
this is not related unless your location is wrong, but i saw the Massachusetts plate "LINUX" today
 
this is not related unless your location is wrong, but i saw the Massachusetts plate "LINUX" today
No, I'm in Ga. I never thought of that but just checked with the Georgia DOT and it's taken, darn. I'm an old, retired engineer and early on in my career I was weaned on unix, which is the father of linux. I waited literally decades for a unix pc that was affordable and worked. Then when MS vista came out I was so enraged with the unreliability that I did some research and found out that linux was available (and free) for PC's. I never looked back.
 
Many of us here that are building racks that take years buying singles do indeed buy off eBay... but you have to purchase them with the understanding that "those" projects will never get you a full return on your money... basically only build one of a kind racks if you are planning on keeping them forever!

There are many chips that I pay $25 - $50 and even $100 plus per chip that on here would never bring that. Many chips that even chip collectors wouldn't understand, but that is where you take the hobby to the next level of having things that no one else has... but again I don't recommend collecting or building them just because. You are pretty much married to them forever or taking a huge loss if you change your mind!
Good thoughts. I started by wanting to build a few 100 chip sets (HSI, IG, PNY, Jack Cincy and Dunes). I don't do poker nights, don't really gamble but just like the chips. My wife doesn't get it at all but you'all do for sure. So I'm half way, have 3 sets complete although the Dunes will take a while. I do 1's, 5's 25's, 100's and 500's if I can. But what you're saying I think is to consider building a rack of a single chip. Interesting.

I will say that now that I've put 3 of my sets up on a shelf I'm starting to enjoy finding singles; just ordered a $4 and a couple 2's tonight after the 1st action I won. I sense that will be more fulfilling than a couple more 100 chip sets.
 
Right now there is a Dunes $500 chip for $120. I paid $60 from the same guy last week, and the next one he listed he double the priced. Wouldn't lower it. Annoyed...
I remember a saying from when I played (and bought) guitars: When I die please don't tell my wife what I really paid for the guitars.

I must say that I was warned when I joined and warned again when I said I wanted to build a Dunes set. It seems to be the hardest to find chips for. I've PM's a couple guys with sets that said it took years to assemble them!
 
Right now there is a Dunes $500 chip for $120. I paid $60 from the same guy last week, and the next one he listed he double the priced. Wouldn't lower it. Annoyed...
There’s a guy who sells singles on Amazon who uses a similar strategy. He will only sell one at a time and generally lists the next one at about 50% more than the last one.
 
Do you mind linking it here? i can't find the post he is talking about.
Oh I have no idea, I didn’t see it. I just sounds a lot like this set that was mentioned here, two years ago.
https://www.pokerchipforum.com/threads/pny-set-for-15-000.62246/
And I remember when he posted that thinking “silly newb, that set has been on eBay for years.”
So I’m not going to go searching eBay myself, I’m just saying that if I’ve been in this hobby for 6 or 7 years, I can remember there being a PNY set for $30k reduced to $20k, reduced to $15k for pretty much the whole time.
 
Oh I have no idea, I didn’t see it. I just sounds a lot like this set that was mentioned here, two years ago.
https://www.pokerchipforum.com/threads/pny-set-for-15-000.62246/
And I remember when he posted that thinking “silly newb, that set has been on eBay for years.”
So I’m not going to go searching eBay myself, I’m just saying that if I’ve been in this hobby for 6 or 7 years, I can remember there being a PNY set for $30k reduced to $20k, reduced to $15k for pretty much the whole time.
im new to a lot of this, but what is so special about these chips? IMO they don't look that nice, unless they are relabeled.
 
I don't really use eBay for finding chips as I had more luck finding deals over here but I do use eBay/amazon as a reliable source for finding Cards/Deck set-up.

Single Chip Collector will probably find eBay as a good source for chips and care very much about
 
I'd venture that anyone looking on eBay will scout it daily, have searches, and so forth. I have stuff I look for every morning and evening. I also have "round-about" searches to help me locate items that won't show up in a regular search. It's nice when others alert to things on eBay - but for me - chances are, I'm already onto it if it's something I want.

And yeah - if there's something that you 'just have to have', you'll end up in situations where you'll pay 10x what it's probably worth. I've done it with something that I wanted, that I'd not seen previously or in recent sales. And yes, I also ended up seeing more show up AFTER that expensive purchase, that I also acquired, for a reasonable price. I know I will most likely not see a return on that 10x purchase - but it was important to me at the moment as I absolutely had to have one for my 'collection'.

Hey, I'm a grown-ass man, I work and make money, and if I want to be a dumbass and overpay once in awhile.....so be it. Someone has to be the definition of "....A Fool And His Money...." and I am the picture of that at times! :ROFL: :ROFLMAO: You can use me as an example to your other half, if needed; "Hey babe, I know you think I shouldn't have spent a month's salary on that one rack of bike tire chips - but at least I'm not Pony! That fool spent five figures on a three-figure chip, and now he ain't got the funds to pick up other items until he's outta debt. And he's stuck drinking bottom-shelf booze as that's all he can afford at the moment".
 
Exactly. It's all subjective. Lots of people love PNYs. Others (like me) ignore them.
I'm sort of drawn to them, plus the lore of a boat casino that ordered the chips from Paulson but could never get the permits from NYC.
 
im new to a lot of this, but what is so special about these chips? IMO they don't look that nice, unless they are relabeled.
If you’re talking about the eBay ones specifically, the answer is nothing. It’s just one seller who’s hoping he can get 5x what his chips are worth with a slick eBay ad and patience.
If you’re talking about PNY chips in general, the answer is complicated. These are Paulsons that were made for a casino that never opened. So mint Paulsons for the people! From what I’ve read, these showed up on the market at a time when that wasn’t common. Now we see it happen more frequently with chip room releases. But at the time it wasn’t common, so they were a big deal. So that legendary status has stuck with them, for many people. On top of that, a lot of people love New York. I don’t. But many do. So if you can have mint chips that are sort of a love letter to a city you love - well you can see how that would be a lot more significant than mint chips from another JACK casino, right?
They’re probably some of the most polarizing chips we have; I think most of us either love them or hate them. But even as a hater, I’ll admit that they’re definitely special.
(Oh and you really can’t relable them because they have giant inlays that are pressed into the actual hat and canes in the mold, so there’s no decent looking solution for removing the inlays or labeling over them)
 
I'm sort of drawn to them, plus the lore of a boat casino that ordered the chips from Paulson but could never get the permits from NYC.

That $15k PNY eBay listing has been up for years.
"There are multiple security devices embedded into the chips to prevent counterfeit. For $25, $100, $500, $1000 chips, there is a security chip and metal powers mixed into the chip material."
One of the jokes was we figured the pricing was due to the special "metal powers" that are infused into the chips.
No one knows what these metal powers do, but must be worth an extra $10k at least. :unsure:
Inflation is slowly catching up to their pricing, so should be a decent price in a few decades. ;)

PNYs are nice. I have a cash set, primary tournament set and secondary tournament set.
Had over 8k of them of them at one point, but sold off more than 1/2.

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I did notice that there were a couple of grammar or spelling errors on that ad. You would think somebody writing copy for a $15K prize would get it right.
 

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