Have we finally reached market saturation?? (6 Viewers)

[grantc54]

Good stuff is vaulted or wants peak prices. Few want to pay peak prices.

Bad stuff is sitting. Alternatives like Tinas are available at a fraction of the cost.

Agreed. Does seem like a lot of people not doing research (or caring) before posting sales at old super high pricing.

Definitely not a good time for the "Don't want to sell but will sell for this super high price"' crowd. Response <crickets>

 

[BGinGA]

Good stuff is vaulted or wants peak prices.

Hoarders be hoarding.

Or moving high-end stuff behind the scenes.

 

[BarrieJ3]

So…stuff is the exact same as it’s been for years?

 

[demonnic]

The more things change, the more they stay the same

 

[BarrieJ3]

Definitely not a good time for the "Don't want to sell but will sell for this super high price"' crowd. Response <crickets>

But they REALLY want a new tv and CPC set. If PCF doesn’t pay for it, who will?!

 

[Taghkanic]

I think Tinas have cut into the low-to-mid market a fair bit (e.g. used RHCs).

 

[bigdog65]

My chip sales are slow. We need to find a way to reach a younger crowd. How? Is the Million dollar question.

 

[ekricket]

My chip sales are slow. We need to find a way to reach a younger crowd. How? Is the Million dollar question.

You sound like a cigarette salesman

 

[bigdog65]

Not since I was 16 and worked at a convenience store. Haha

 

[DirtyTIVA]

My chip sales are slow. We need to find a way to reach a younger crowd. How? Is the Million dollar question.

Price them at 50 cents a chip to reach the younger PCF members.

 

[chippitydoodah]

My chip sales are slow. We need to find a way to reach a younger crowd. How? Is the Million dollar question.

Virtual Poker Chips

 

[ekricket]

Virtual Poker Chips

That have emojis on them

 

[BarrieJ3]

 

[BarrieJ3]

But seriously, I think this is the only place in the world that makes me feel young. And I played in a jewish men’s 55 and older basketball league.

 

[PlaidDragon]

Virtual Poker Chips

No. I'm going to sell poker chip futures on the moon............

 

[Taghkanic]

I am not sure a younger crowd is the best target market for high-end chip sales, unless we’re talking cryptokiddies.

 

[warma]

I am not sure a younger crowd is the best target market for high-end chip sales, unless we’re talking cryptokiddies.

My high school poker buddies and I really wanted to buy a custom set in our 20s, but the design tech wasn’t where we needed it to be and we couldn’t get the design right.

I also didn’t find the blue wall, which would have been immensely helpful.

 

[jamesjkim]

Bump for no reason

 

[TheOffalo]

Bump for no reason

Troublemaker

 

[upNdown]

Bump for no reason

I blame Tina!

 

[buffalojim]

Here we go

 

[jayfiggy]

 

[jpietrella]

Putin Ritz gif

 

[JMC9389]

People are scared shitless.

The cost of my utilities went up almost 20% since last year, almost 40% in total in the past 5 years. Everything else simply costs more.

I could never buy as many customs and acquire the BCC's and Paulsons that I did with my budget today. My wife and I both work and each spend maybe $1k a month on average on leisure. This includes paying off a $5k cruise for a family of four at $700/month that we just finished paying off. And we're not working at McDonald's either. Both clearing six figures. But with day care, after care, mortage, property taxes (have gone up 15% since we moved in 7 years ago), and medical bills, we're lucky that we're breaking even. I've bought zero chips in the past three months. Just a few singles here and there and some cards from Justin and AHPC

People are stretched thin and there aren't new people with deep pockets coming into the hobby like there was during Covid. There are some amazing deals on the classifieds here and elsewhere. Amazing chips that are sitting because people are tapped out and simply don't have the money.

 

[Tonysquander]

I blame Tina!

I thought they were now known as T-Bowl chips

https://www.pokerchipforum.com/threads/golden-nugget-new-chips.132759/#post-2707261

 

[Rieguy]

Buyer's market!!

Spoiler: BUY THE DIP!

I think we've been steadily falling since mid 2023 or earlier. What's the date of this thread?

 

[chipinla]

 

[BarrieJ3]

People are scared shitless.

The cost of my utilities went up almost 20% since last year, almost 40% in total in the past 5 years. Everything else simply costs more.

I could never buy as many customs and acquire the BCC's and Paulsons that I did with my budget today. My wife and I both work and each spend maybe $1k a month on average on leisure. This includes paying off a $5k cruise for a family of four at $700/month that we just finished paying off. And we're not working at McDonald's either. Both clearing six figures. But with day care, after care, mortage, property taxes (have gone up 15% since we moved in 7 years ago), and medical bills, we're lucky that we're breaking even. I've bought zero chips in the past three months. Just a few singles here and there and some cards from Justin and AHPC

People are stretched thin and there aren't new people with deep pockets coming into the hobby like there was during Covid. There are some amazing deals on the classifieds here and elsewhere. Amazing chips that are sitting because people are tapped out and simply don't have the money.

So, same as always?

I get it though. Just yesterday grocery shopping, small container of grapes was $23 (members got them for just $18).

I wonder how people haven't always been scared. We're a sickness, diagnosis, etc. away from disaster. Run out of standard leave, fmla, etc etc and you're broke/bankrupt. Even truer for single income households. Lose income stream, insurance tied to your job, and then burn through all money and savings. This isn't a political comment, it's just the reality of living in the US. Even as a member of the 1%, we're still one simple diagnosis away from filing bankruptcy. I just figure I'm borrowing/holding chips and anything else of value until the shoe drops, and when or if that happens, deuces to all of it. If not, I'll be thankful to be lucky.

As it's been for quite some time, for the most part public pcf and anywhere else public sales are for suckers now. We "dOnT cArE wHo We SeLl To" and what people do, so here we are. I'd give chips away free or burn them in an oil drum before I'd sell them as a good deal for chippers on the classifieds here.

I bet I could put up a couple custom sample displays in a van.....

 

[MrCatPants]

So, same as always?

I get it though. Just yesterday grocery shopping, small container of grapes was $23 (members got them for just $18).

I wonder how people haven't always been scared. We're a sickness, diagnosis, etc. away from disaster. Run out of standard leave, fmla, etc etc and you're broke/bankrupt. Even truer for single income households. Lose income stream, insurance tied to your job, and then burn through all money and savings. This isn't a political comment, it's just the reality of living in the US. Even as a member of the 1%, we're still one simple diagnosis away from filing bankruptcy. I just figure I'm borrowing/holding chips and anything else of value until the shoe drops, and when or if that happens, deuces to all of it. If not, I'll be thankful to be lucky.

As it's been for quite some time, for the most part public pcf and anywhere else public sales are for suckers now. We "dOnT cArE wHo We SeLl To" and what people do, so here we are. I'd give chips away free or burn them in an oil drum before I'd sell them as a good deal for chippers on the classifieds here.

I bet I could put up a couple custom sample displays in a van.....

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WTF kind of grapes are these???

 

[ekricket]

So, same as always?

I get it though. Just yesterday grocery shopping, small container of grapes was $23 (members got them for just $18).

I wonder how people haven't always been scared. We're a sickness, diagnosis, etc. away from disaster. Run out of standard leave, fmla, etc etc and you're broke/bankrupt. Even truer for single income households. Lose income stream, insurance tied to your job, and then burn through all money and savings. This isn't a political comment, it's just the reality of living in the US. Even as a member of the 1%, we're still one simple diagnosis away from filing bankruptcy. I just figure I'm borrowing/holding chips and anything else of value until the shoe drops, and when or if that happens, deuces to all of it. If not, I'll be thankful to be lucky.

As it's been for quite some time, for the most part public pcf and anywhere else public sales are for suckers now. We "dOnT cArE wHo We SeLl To" and what people do, so here we are. I'd give chips away free or burn them in an oil drum before I'd sell them as a good deal for chippers on the classifieds here.

I bet I could put up a couple custom sample displays in a van.....

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TLDR:
summary: People in the US have been making bad decisions for generations. And it’s somebody else fault. And we shouldn’t start making better ones because this is America and we can make all the bad decisions we want, it’s our god given right.

Buy raisins instead of grapes. Same thing but you don’t pay for the water. I know, you shouldn’t have to make hard choices like this in the hardscrabble life we live here, but sometimes you have to make sacrifices.

Quit buying luxury’s when you are just one step away from savagery. Or pray for another catastrophic global epidemic so the government can give you someone else’s money to buy your luxury goods and increase the price of everything (including necessities) for everyone.