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bergs said:
The flippers got y’all here. It’s not like y’all weren’t warned - for years, like many, many times. All y’all that harped on “hey market prices free market system I’m free to sell at whatever price I waaaant” - this is what happens when it stops being hobbies and starts being individual businesses.

Jim would be crazy not to do auctions for sets and rare racks now, and just do normal sales for massive amounts of chips as he normally does.

Or, just do auctions and sell the big lots to Apache where he’ll sell them to us via his retail store over time.

Thanks flippers!
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There is a thread to bitch about flippers/flipping.
 
bergs said:
I’m not idly complaining about it but it is worth mentioning here that the auctions TCR is doing is quid-pro-quid for the flipping. I think that’s fair game in this thread. If not the mods are free to smite me.
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I don’t think these auctions are solely a result of people flipping chips. I’m sure it just makes the most sense based on quality and quantity. Btw I hope these chips sell for $30 a piece and Jim becomes the next Andrew Tate.
 
Yeah @bergs is right, and it's been a long time coming. I don't blame Jim at all- if those racks were offered up in a "fair" way they would most likely be auctioned off shortly aft3r by whoever was lucky enough to get them, and then it would happen again and again as multiple members write paragraphs on why they hate to catch and release each time while maybe making more on each flip than Jim did on the original sale.

I understand not everybody thinks Jim is as much of an asset to our chipping community as I do, I mean hE mAkEs MoNeY off the chips he sells so he's just as bad as pure flippers, right? I happen to think he's done a great service for the chipping community and while I hate that I don't have a chance at much anymore I'm glad he's getting the lions share of the "flip" on this stuff now.

Turns out the unicorn does in fact have a limit on how many times it can be punched.
 
bergs said:
You are, however, an animatronic
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Eriks said:
Kiddy games (unleaded RHCs) are down the street - on your bikes!

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THC groupies are funny. I guess it is very similar to being a wine aficionado. I know a good wine when I taste it, but if you say this bottle is a $5K bottle and it tastes pretty much like the $100 bottle of wine that I appreciate, I will gladly drink yours, but I'm not in the market for it. I have some $5K wine in my chip cabinet, but I paid $100 wine prices before some very rich people really enjoyed the nutty aftertaste that they have.
 
bergs said:
Someday we’re going to be asked to narrate a stream where we can see hole cards and we will literally take over poker commentating world wide forever.
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I'm Vince Van Kifer and you are Bergs Sexxxton.
 
12thMan said:
Yeah @bergs is right, and it's been a long time coming. I don't blame Jim at all- if those racks were offered up in a "fair" way they would most likely be auctioned off shortly aft3r by whoever was lucky enough to get them, and then it would happen again and again as multiple members write paragraphs on why they hate to catch and release each time while maybe making more on each flip than Jim did on the original sale.

I understand not everybody thinks Jim is as much of an asset to our chipping community as I do, I mean hE mAkEs MoNeY off the chips he sells so he's just as bad as pure flippers, right? I happen to think he's done a great service for the chipping community and while I hate that I don't have a chance at much anymore I'm glad he's getting the lions share of the "flip" on this stuff now.

Turns out the unicorn does in fact have a limit on how many times it can be punched.
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He’s done great doing what he does. Who remembers the first sales from his website? he used eBay before pcf got whalers.

The flippers are part of the game, spinettis is just as much of this problem as the others. Guarantee if there’s no limit you’ll see people with 1000s in there cart. ( you end flipping by not paying premiums. You end premiums by letting whales die out ! ) once there gone you have plenty of supply less demand your made at flippers but in reality it’s not flippers you should be mad at its whales.

If I was Jim I’d create my own site again and list these for what ever I wanted. Auction the low count high denom on eBay. But he’s got you pcfers by the balls. Your all wanting the next best thing but in reality you can only use 1 set and 1 tournament set. So buying them for collections is dumb.

The fallout from this will be epic when it happens there will be a major price crash in future bc all chippers get burned out either by funds or by just this nonsense community lol. and whales move on from 1 project to the next. Who will you sell your $1000 a racks chips to when whales are gone. Cause 75% of us here won’t buy them now let alone then.
 
ChipEnvy said:
Been thinking and saying this for years... Still waiting for it, but am no longer holding my breath.
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There's a lot of high end sets and racks sitting in the classifieds now, so the slowdown is already happening. But don't think it'll crash. Much like the housing market generally it may correct by 10% or so but there's too many people who will just not sell if they aren't able to recoup their costs.
 
facinfears217 said:
He’s done great doing what he does. Who remembers the first sales from his website? he used eBay before pcf got whalers.

The flippers are part of the game, spinettis is just as much of this problem as the others. Guarantee if there’s no limit you’ll see people with 1000s in there cart. ( you end flipping by not paying premiums. You end premiums by letting whales die out ! ) once there gone you have plenty of supply less demand your made at flippers but in reality it’s not flippers you should be mad at its whales.

If I was Jim I’d create my own site again and list these for what ever I wanted. Auction the low count high denom on eBay. But he’s got you pcfers by the balls. Your all wanting the next best thing but in reality you can only use 1 set and 1 tournament set. So buying them for collections is dumb.

The fallout from this will be epic when it happens there will be a major price crash in future bc all chippers get burned out either by funds or by just this nonsense community lol. and whales move on from 1 project to the next. Who will you sell your $1000 a racks chips to when whales are gone. Cause 75% of us here won’t buy them now let alone then.
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Ahh set #41 AND COUNTING!
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Just paid $3,000 for my second rack of
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And multiple of us willing to buy more at that price if you have any available.

***Ohh Man... it has been a while... BEN Book Warning! YEE Bee Warned!!***

"$1000 A RACK" Umm... you guys realize that Jim SELLS OUT on chips that cost MORE than $10 each off the break right? When Apache got the Primary $1ks, that morning they were $11.99 (Jim's price was $7.99) by that evening they were $14.99 and now $18 each... why would the price increase so rapidly if they weren't flying out the door. Anyone catch how long it took for Jim to sell out on the Indiana Grands?

Pretty sure I will still be around (I did just turn 40... anything could happen) but for the most part not planning on going anywhere.

BUT! Personally I say let the whole chipping market crash and burn to the ground! I don't buy chips as an "investment" I buy them because I love them, and for prices I am willing to pay!

If that rack was worth $300 tomorrow I wouldn't care one bit! And yes this coming from someone with over $100k in poker chips at this point! Let it burn baby... then myself and many of the veterans throwing around the term "retirement" can get right back into the mix of chipping!

"Flipper Ben" ...
"Whale Ben" ...
"Late to supper Ben"... wait a minute now, that's too far! lol

Whatever you want to call us, there will still be people around willing to pay ridiculous amounts of money for little clay discs... just because we like them.

Hell I plan to be around for the next "balloon" and the crash that follows that one! I have thrown tons of money away on things that were far less pretty than my chippies! I consider myself a PRO on bad "investments"

House Payment is made, bills are paid, retirement is looking great and still got a few Benjis in my pocket for the meet up this weekend in PA!

Life is good Amigos!!

Let's try something new and have a thread where people complain about the cost of poker chips.... that would be pretty original! Lmao
 
bergs said:
You are, however, an animatronic potato and the first of your species to live amongst homosapien as (ostensibly) an equal, so, in there respect, you are a remarkable little tube veggie (pinches whatever passes for your “cheeks”).
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Why does everyone hate on potatoes? We are an honest and simple people.
 

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