Too late to submit my last set of customs to HOF? (1 Viewer)

[justsomedude]

Granted. They are no hard candy.

Or Dino-Accountants!

 

[Mr Tree]

Or Dino-Accountants!

Toby’s brilliance is like Jerry Lewis. Only appreciated by the French.

 

[bivey]

Trees chips that almost were are the bomb. So sad these didn’t get made. Same goes for the other guys that were in on round two.

 

[Psypher1000]

If people want to fire off emails to GPI knock yourselves out. I’m not going to keep posting on it but understand I am not conjecturing in the least with anything I say.

Harley laid out the basics. They had an in through a card room whose rep was allowing us to buy chips. One run got through, I was in the second which was locked and loaded when GPI put the absolute haltto it. The rep had agreed to do it but in due diligence GPI corporate realized what was going down and put the unconditional halt to it.

As I said before I am not guessing, GPI has no intention of ever working with us and aren’t interested in discussion. If anyone is interested here is the Hitching Post high roller set that was sent to GPI when this went tits up.

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[Highli99]

I hope that no one who was blocked at the last minute lost any money. I suspect the cat and mouse game between chippers and GPI’s sales prevention task force will continue.

Best of luck to those who try and congrats to the few who have succeeded.

 

[Psypher1000]

Perhaps, if Andy writes two letters a day, a difference it will make...

 

[Mr Tree]

I hope that no one who was blocked at the last minute lost any money. I suspect the cat and mouse game between chippers and GPI’s sales prevention task force will continue.

Best of luck to those who try and congrats to the few who have succeeded.

No, this wasn’t like that. GPI knew what we were doing, the rep just got countermanded by higher up the food chain. So even if money had gone in it just would have been refunded.

 

[CraigT78]

No, this wasn’t like that. GPI knew what we were doing, the rep just got countermanded by higher up the food chain. So even if money had gone in it just would have been refunded.

So it sounds like we need to stalk the executives and only put in orders when they are on vacation!

 

[allforcharity]

I will write this once and then I'll shut up almost forever about it, because I doubt I have anything further useful, constructive, or interesting to say.

If a group of people from here want to orchestrate a group buy, under a casino license or not, and do it totally above board, then the only way I can see it is to go directly with a request to the new Japanese owners. If someone's got those types of contacts, or that type of business experience, and inside knowledge of that type of business culture, then go for it. A corporation is a corporation is a corporation. They would not ignore a directive from International HQ/Executive Office if it meant a loss of face (or a loss of job).

 

[arch3r]

Do you mind sharing what the avg per chip price was going to be? You know, for science of course.

 

[justsomedude]

So it sounds like we need to stalk the executives and only put in orders when they are on vacation!

Or maybe we need to take them on vacation... mmm?

 

[Nex]

I believe Japanese are extremely subservient to authority. I don't think going straight to them increases your chances.

 

[Mr Tree]

So it sounds like we need to stalk the executives and only put in orders when they are on vacation!

 

[Mr Tree]

Do you mind sharing what the avg per chip price was going to be? You know, for science of course.

It’s actually not that straightforward as they handle the transaction differently than what you are used to. For instance there is an art fee for every single inlay you submit that was pretty substantial.

 

[CraigT78]

Or maybe we need to take them on vacation... mmm?

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If their executives look like that - I'll take one for the team. Just make sure someone orders me extra chips for my efforts.

 

[CraigT78]

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That's option #2.

Option #3:

Spoiler: Option 3

 

[arch3r]

It’s actually not that straightforward as they handle the transaction differently than what you are used to. For instance there is an art fee for every single inlay you submit that was pretty substantial.

I get that, but is it safe to assume <$2/chip when it was all said and done? I just need to know how much I need to save when I get my chance to get some custom Paulsons

 

[Mr Tree]

I get that, but is it safe to assume <$2/chip when it was all said and done? I just need to know how much I need to save when I get my chance to get some custom Paulsons

It’s kind of volume specific. The fees scale with numbers. I can tell you mine would have been greater than $2 a chip to produce but that’s because I have a different front and back to my chips which added to the cost.

 

[ssanel54]

It’s kind of volume specific. The fees scale with numbers. I can tell you mine would have been greater than $2 a chip to produce but that’s because I have a different front and back to my chips which added to the cost.

You get a decent price break if you order over 1000 of a denom.

 

[Mr Tree]

You get a decent price break if you order over 1000 of a denom.

That is definitely one of the triggers.

 

[saskbull]

our laws here allow gaming to operate under a zero profit/charitable licence, or at least they did. any profits are to be donated. we had a decent sized card room and casino games venue operating about 10 years ago, but due to some bad business practices and a shady shareholder etc, i pulled out/sold my share at a loss and the venture went bust shortly after. i wonder if something like that qualifies as a “licenced casino” to gpi? it’s funny because that’s what brought me to chipping. (CT). our main shareholder wanted to use yin yang chips, and i figured that was a bad idea lol

 

[WhiteMamba1646]

There is a cardroom in texas that uses “the mint” chips with a different inlay lol

 

[kmccormick100]

our laws here allow gaming to operate under a zero profit/charitable licence, or at least they did. any profits are to be donated. we had a decent sized card room and casino games venue operating about 10 years ago, but due to some bad business practices and a shady shareholder etc, i pulled out/sold my share at a loss and the venture went bust shortly after. i wonder if something like that qualifies as a “licenced casino” to gpi? it’s funny because that’s what brought me to chipping. (CT). our main shareholder wanted to use yin yang chips, and i figured that was a bad idea lol

This seems like a viable route. We just have to host one PCF Charity meetup in Canada to justify a full cash and tourney set, right? It's nearly impossible to get a cardroom license here in California, even when cardrooms close they're hard to buy, I think a lot of them are bought by tribal gaming corporations to prevent competition.

 

[saskbull]

There is a cardroom in texas that uses “the mint” chips with a different inlay lol

brutal. we ended up getting semi custom sluggos from an online retailer with a “reasonable chance” that they would not print labels for anyone else.. if i restart this venture its paulson all the way. gpi has not responded to my inquiries lol

 

[saskbull]

This seems like a viable route. We just have to host one PCF Charity meetup in Canada to justify a full cash and tourney set, right? It's nearly impossible to get a cardroom license here in California, even when cardrooms close they're hard to buy, I think a lot of them are bought by tribal gaming corporations to prevent competition.

one of the other reasons the last one failed was interference/allegations from the first nation casino here. presently i’m pretty good friends with some of the local management..not sure how head office would feel but i’m looking into the options lol

 

[Tham6165]

So it sounds like we need to stalk the executives and only put in orders when they are on vacation!

I'm sure if anyone was able to attain some blackmail on an exec we would be able!

 

[WedgeRock]

presently i’m pretty good friends with some of the local management..not sure how head office would feel but i’m looking into the options lol

 

[andy699669]

And I'm here eating my popcorn watching whilst trying to design my 43mm hybrids. Well, nothing to do here.

 

[Meddler2]

This seems like a viable route. We just have to host one PCF Charity meetup in Canada to justify a full cash and tourney set, right? It's nearly impossible to get a cardroom license here in California, even when cardrooms close they're hard to buy, I think a lot of them are bought by tribal gaming corporations to prevent competition.

This is what I was thinking as well. There's 3-4 cardrooms currently operating in Austin. Convince management to allow PCF to host (for rental fee of course) an annual charity event and attempt to purchase chips through PGI. Order gobs of chips, and see what happens.

 

[CraigT78]

This is what I was thinking as well. There's 3-4 cardrooms currently operating in Austin. Convince management to allow PCF to host (for rental fee of course) an annual charity event and attempt to purchase chips through PGI. Order gobs of chips, and see what happens.

If Texas had a gaming commision you might be on to something.