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JustDave said:
anyone speculating on poker chips can eat a bag of dicks
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I don’t really care why people buy poker chips. Pretty sure we’ve hit and left the high point behind us now though. Enough people will have to spend their hard earn on significantly higher living costs instead.
 
Eriks said:
why people throw tens of thousands of dollars at the chance of owning a NAGB set I will never understand.
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I used to think that way but playing devils advocate here for a second…it’s the same argument people are using for watches. Some of the most technically simple watches go for astronomical amounts of money and they just tell you the date and time. value and utility are different things. Leaded THC, NAGB, RHCs and dice chips have the same utility. So then it’s a question of what’s more collectible?…for the most part, this community/hobby can’t seriously care that much about the historical value of the chips we like to buy (honestly what’s the historical importance of most of the Cali or Cruise sets I wonder) - prices indicate that aesthetics are at least as important - so why would NAGB be less desirable? They’re manufactured by the same company that produced the chips of that Cardroom none of us have ever been to but we all love (e.g. Lakeshore Inn). With that in mind, I can easily imagine some NAGB chips sell for more than some of the old school leaded THCs…just a thought anyway…
 
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I've read through some of the older, heated, NAGB lore. It was very amusing, as a newish member with no horse in the race. Excited to read the next thread live when it happens!
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PocketAces said:
I used to think that way but playing devils advocate here for a second…it’s the same argument people are using for watches. Some of the most technically simple watches go for astronomical amounts of money and they just tell you the date and time. value and utility are different things. Leaded THC, NAGB, RHCs and dice chips have the same utility. So then it’s a question of what’s more collectible?…for the most part, this community/hobby can’t seriously care that much about the historical value of the chips we like to buy (honestly what’s the historical importance of most of the Cali or Cruise sets I wonder) - prices indicate that aesthetics are at least as important - so why would NAGB be less desirable? They’re manufactured by the same company that produced the chips of that Cardroom none of us have ever been to but we all love (e.g. Lakeshore Inn). With that in mind, I can easily imagine some NAGB chips sell for more than some of the old school leaded THCs…just a thought anyway…
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You have a point for sure. And a lot of it probably has to do with my personal preference (I wouldn’t pay $15-20/chip for THC either though). The big difference in my view is that the supply of leaded THC chips is finite, whereas ”regular” Paulsons could theoretically be manufactured by the millions.
 
PocketAces said:
I used to think that way but playing devils advocate here for a second…it’s the same argument people are using for watches. Some of the most technically simple watches go for astronomical amounts of money and they just tell you the date and time. value and utility are different things. Leaded THC, NAGB, RHCs and dice chips have the same utility. So then it’s a question of what’s more collectible?…for the most part, this community/hobby can’t seriously care that much about the historical value of the chips we like to buy (honestly what’s the historical importance of most of the Cali or Cruise sets I wonder) - prices indicate that aesthetics are at least as important - so why would NAGB be less desirable? They’re manufactured by the same company that produced the chips of that Cardroom none of us have ever been to but we all love (e.g. Lakeshore Inn). With that in mind, I can easily imagine some NAGB chips sell for more than some of the old school leaded THCs…just a thought anyway…
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Interesting idea about what people care about.

While most of my players atent into chips like we are they will notice the difference betweem china clay and Paulson.

I think the biggest factor to them is colour, and the same colours are available across all molds.

I'm just happy I was able to score from some TCR sales and I am happy with my current sets (not starting anything new).

I am blown away by the prices some of the NAGB chips sell for considering their cost. I cant say Id be horribly upset if those that overpaid (by my opinion, not market at the time) cant recoup the full value. If people refused to pay ridiculous markup then that wouldnt have become the so called market price.

When it comes to high chip prices I blame the buyer and not the seller (if someone will pay it why shouldnt they take it?).

There is a special place in chipper hell for those that snap buy ridiculously priced chips and then "catch and release" at their "cost" (a price that no one would have paid the original seller).

Just my opinion, and I will admit I have made small purchases for chips I needed or wanted at high prices, just not whole sets of generic 39mm at over 18 a chip.
 
Eriks said:
I understand that leaded THC chips from actual casinos that have historical and sentimental value fetch high prices, but why people throw tens of thousands of dollars at the chance of owning a NAGB set I will never understand.
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People throwing tens of thousands at fractions of nonexistent digital chips or files of pictures of monkeys claiming it’s some moon-based future certainly make more sense.
 
Oh the timing!! I just wanted some pretty chips. :ROFL: :ROFLMAO:

Seriously, a guy gets some nice chips at a "good" price and everyone loses their mind around here.

I never thought of the chips as an "investment" but I've only been around a few months and quite possibly came in at the high water mark or so it seems.

Hell, if there is another NAGB and you are an "insider" or whatever, good for you. I'll stick to stonks
 
RichMahogany said:
Lol these threads.

People sell chips all the time, but what, every 6 months or so(random guess) one of these threads pop up.

Selling chips does not equal a NAGB.

Or maybe it does or maybe people want to see things that aren’t there
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Someone who says that sounds like they might be in a NAGB *glare*
 
I'm not opposed to being added to a NAGB... I'd like to think I've been a solid member of this community for a couple of years and have given FAR more than I've taken...

Just throwing that out there!
 
Just wanted to make clear, I’m not trying to pick fights with any NAGB buyer. I think paying $15-20/chip for a set of any kind of chips is absolutely outrageous, but we’re all free to do whatever we want with our money. And It’s all relative, 99,99% of the rest of the poker world probably think we’re all idiots paying anything above 10 cents/chip
 
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Eriks said:
Just wanted to make clear, I’m not trying to pick fights with any NAGB buyer. I think paying $15-20/chip for a set of any kind of chips is absolutely outrageous, but we’re all free to do whatever we want with our money. And It’s all relative, 99,99% of the rest of the poker world probably think we’re all idiots paying anything above 10 cents/chip
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PocketAces said:
(honestly what’s the historical importance of most of the Cali or Cruise sets I wonder)
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Maybe there’s no historical importance to some? But there must be something to the idea that most NAGB chips mimic the sets in which you mention. :unsure:

What’s the historical significance to the Beatles or Led Zeppelin or muscle cars from the 60s? I think the answer might be that these are lots of times the standards in which everyone else is always trying to improve upon.

In this hobby, you’ll always see the “trying to improve upon” coming up for sale and changing hands. You’ll RARELY if ever see the “standards”
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Lil Tuna said:
Maybe there’s no historical importance to some?
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That was bait from me ill admit, although to be clear, I was not trying to make a generality of that statement. Can definitely understand how buying chips from a Cardroom you have played at, or from a casino that was an important place in the area you live in can be a determining factor although none of that really qualifies as “historical importance” (some of the Vegas sets I can definitely understand the argument though) but let’s not argue about the semantics.

I’d half expect the next comment to be along the lines of « overseas buyers don’t get it »…but trust me I do - the desire to collect a small piece of gaming memorabilia got me here, but more generally I like nice stuff lol and I just think chips sets demand/collectibility (and ultimately prices) reflect demand for specific designs, and not so much their history. Same thing happening in the watch collecting world.
 

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