Does GPI/Paulson Really Care? (3 Viewers)

[mike32]

I think you’re talking about the chips GPI was selling under the BCC brand as promotional chips? And you’re right - who took advantage of that? @Tommy had the PCF tournament chips made (and a 5 year anniversary chip) and @Apache had tournament chips made, and that’s all I can recall - I don’t remember any members getting sets made. Probably because they were only available as 312 with about 7 colors available.

I had a set of 600 made. I ordered them almost the day they were offered.

 

[cpac54]

I think you’re talking about the chips GPI was selling under the BCC brand as promotional chips? And you’re right - who took advantage of that? @Tommy had the PCF tournament chips made (and a 5 year anniversary chip) and @Apache had tournament chips made, and that’s all I can recall - I don’t remember any members getting sets made. Probably because they were only available as 312 with about 7 colors available.

Those chips would have been very attractive if they had been available with better edge spot and colour options. Alas.

 

[maxim_666666]

Seems like many people forget that Paulson offered numerous fantasy sets to the home market for several years at about a $1 a chip. When they were readily available, the community turned their noses at them because they weren’t real casino chips, or they were on a different mold, or because you could get fully customized with ASM.

When they stopped selling to the public, secondary prices increased, but that doesn’t mean the market price would be $3-6 if Paulson just made them available again. PCF would probably buy a bunch, and then they would be sitting on the shelf like they used to, while the chip community gravitated toward something else that is not readily available

It's funny, I remember people complaining that they were sick of the "Paulson Chips" label and that they were boring and didn't have bronze flakes or other good stuff on them. And the price of $1.20 per chip was impressive. Nobody bought them in the thousands... Even now it's ridiculous to expect people to fight for used chips at $5 apiece when you can get much more for the same money.

 

[BGinGA]

Nobody bought them in the thousands...

That's not true. Lots of folks bought Pharaoh's, WTHC, GCR, and other Paulson home market chips on non-casino molds, often 1000+ chp sets. Myself included.

 

[maxim_666666]

That's not true. Lots of folks bought Pharaoh's, WTHC, GCR, and other Paulson home market chips on non-casino molds, often 1000+ chp sets. Myself included.

Your example is just a special case. It was not a rare commodity. Once on Apache I bought a "private card room" by the piece. And I sold it because I didn’t need a set of 500 pieces. A couple of months later I bought a set of samples there as a gift. I never perceived them as something unique and very rare. I didn't have to rush like I did at Jim's sales.

 

[maxim_666666]

Del

 

[TheRealTeddyKGB]

Your example is just a special case. It was not a rare commodity. Once on Apache I bought a "private card room" by the piece. And I sold it because I didn’t need a set of 500 pieces. A couple of months later I bought a set of samples there as a gift. I never perceived them as something unique and very rare. I didn't have to rush like I did at Jim's sales.

Definitely not a unique or rare commodity but yes as @BGinGA said LOTS of people bought thousands. You didn't have to rush because there were hundreds of thousands made over several years...

 

[maxim_666666]

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Definitely not a unique or rare commodity but yes as @BGinGA said LOTS of people bought thousands. You didn't have to rush because there were hundreds of thousands made over several years...

I regret not appreciating their availability...
I read that 1.5 million of Paulson's Pharaohs were made.

 

[TheRealTeddyKGB]

I regret not appreciating their availability...
I read that 1.5 million of Paulson's Pharaohs were made.

Me too. I laughed at the price then years later spent 3x to get them! Still looking for a few lol

 

[LeLe]

me as well, it was a time long before I become a chipper.

I was in a Home game felting the WTHC chips and thinking these chips are pretty cool and nice until the host told me they cost US$1.25 per chip

A decent set will cost me 2 weeks of salary at that time, a full set will cost me a month

 

[MeridianFC]

 

[Jawnie]

It takes effort to make something this ugly when your surrounded by beautiful chips and endless amazing options.... so yes they do care

 

[BGinGA]

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It takes effort to make something this ugly when your surrounded by beautiful chips and endless amazing options.... so yes they do care

Don't blame GPI..... it was the design buffoons at Trademark Poker that ordered those chips..... although the available chip/spot colors and spot patterns were limited.

 

[allforcharity]

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It takes effort to make something this ugly when your surrounded by beautiful chips and endless amazing options.... so yes they do care

Don't blame GPI..... it was the design buffoons at Trademark Poker that ordered those chips..... although the available chip/spot colors and spot patterns were limited.

And exactly where did the moniker "Classics" come from? I feel nothing 'classical' about these chips nor their design, unless by "classic" you really mean "ugly".

 

[BGinGA]

Marketing, baby, marketing.

Also known as lying out yer azz.