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What's up with all these sales? (1 Viewer)

12thMan said:
This forum has gotten weird, I swear there's like 8 people who can't post anything but this stuff. The exact same threads, the exact same posts, the exact same jokes, over and over and over.

I get wanting chips. I get wanting Paulsons. I definitely don't get most of the threads I read these days that have anything to do with either of those topics though. Either give it a try, on your own or in a group, or give it a rest for a day or two. It's like every other post is speculating on stuff posters only have 25% of the information on or are deciding what other adults should do for them that they aren't willing to do themselves.

There's got to be more than this to chipping.
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so you are in on the current GB:D
 
Poker Zombie said:
No man, you're cool. :tup:

As for "splintering" the forum, you obviously are new. Chiptalk was constantly divided.

A very close friend once told me "You hate with the same amount of passion that you love with". There can be no denying that the passion for the love of chips is extremely high around here. So when when we get upset, the anger boils over with the same amount of passion.

Eventually, you have to decide if you want to carry that anger or get back on the happy road. If you can't get over it, then throw my house keys at me and leave.

My friend did, and everybody is happier now.
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Right on!
 
BGinGA said:
You heard wrong.
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David O said:
I guess you need to get your info from people that will tell you the truth or were better informed. This is entirely wrong.
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No offense, but it came from a source I trust with first-hand knowledge. I can't confirm the veracity of the statement, but I can't vaildate your position either. Maybe your information is wrong.
 
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Scrub donkey life...guilty
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WedgeRock said:
No offense, but it came from a source I trust with first-hand knowledge. I can't confirm the veracity if the statement, but I can't vaildate your position either. Maybe your information is wrong.
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Maybe one or two people took the angle shot. The vast majority did not. However, once the prices went insane, I couldn't fault those that sold their chips. As Doc Strange once said, every chip I own has a price, if someone is willing to offer enough.
 
Poker Zombie said:
Maybe one or two people took the angle shot. The vast majority did not.
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That's not how it was described to me...a few loners looking to cash in... But I'll leave it at that, as it does not appear to be a popular opinion, and as I said, although I trust my source, I can't speak from first-hand knowledge.
 
If there really is another secret group buy going on, all the better for the rest of us. Means others are selling some really damn nice chips at a good price to fund the next venture.

Just waiting for some low denomination Jack's to start hitting the classifieds for less than $300 a rack. I'm taking a break from buying other than working on my Key West ASM set. :tup:
 
WedgeRock said:
I heard this was the initial intention of the first Star chips... Huge buy to be sold for profit to the members here. Pharoahs v2.
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Not only completely wrong but also diametrically opposite of what the buy was about. Suggestions of what you described above were brought up by a couple of people early on and nipped in the bud immediately by those running the buy.
 
WedgeRock said:
No offense, but it came from a source I trust with first-hand knowledge. I can't confirm the veracity of the statement, but I can't vaildate your position either. Maybe your information is wrong.
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There might have been a few the may have profited and intended to do so. The original group did not. Yes I have first hand knowledge That the intent was not for profit.

No offense taken. Just putting it out there because your “info” implied it was done strictly for profit which is not correct. You can believe me or not and that’s ok but mine is first hand info where yours seems to be second hand info.
 
DMack said:
PZ, I agree with a lot of what you say, but that statement is hysterical. Were the GB/NAGB members in it for ANYTHING other than themselves????????
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Touche'

The difference is that the GB wasn't setting out to harm anybody. Everyone was on the same team. Paulson was the enemy - namely the guy that says No chips to private collectors.

We all play poker. We all want to take our friends money. The guy that moans and groans constantly because he didn't get his way would be a pain in the ass of the GB leader, those working on spot patterns, and those working on inlay concepts. A player that bitches at every opportunity doesn't get invited, as his goal interferes with everyone else.
 
Having been a part of 2 rounds of Paulson buys (Boat & BTP), I know first hand that these ventures can happen. However, please know that there was a good bit of discretion involved. My ES chips sat on the shelf for 1.5 years before I displayed them publicly; probably 6-8 months for AS; 6 months for BTP. Why the need for discretion? 1.) Because sharing publicly could ruin things for folks in the future and 2.) I don't know the level of deception involved (could be none, could be a lot) and would never want to get anyone in trouble.

To @WedgeRock's point earlier in this thread about the genesis of the Boats buys being about profit - I would never want to discredit your source as I was very late to the buy in mid-2016 and may not have captured the original intention, but that is not how I recall it. On a "Flipper Intention" scale of 0 (no profit motivation) to 10 (exclusively about profit), I would have put ES around a 1 (a little higher for AS and BTP). In fact, people spoke about keeping these chips forever, and if I were a betting man, I'd say that a solid 2/3 of the Boat and BTP chips produced are still sitting with their original owners.

Fast forward to today, it is a different world when it comes to GPI. They have new ownership, are getting peppered by countless PCF folks, and undoubtedly monitoring this site for reselling. We need to remember that GPI is an $87M business, not $100B. I run Sales Ops for a company about half GPI's size and I can tell you about every deal in the pipeline. If you believe for one moment that GPI isn't up to speed on the shit we are pulling, then you need to focus on your self-awareness. Does this mean that I've never reached out to GPI sales reps? Absolutely not. But with any communication I've sent, I've been honest and upfront about my gaming license status (non-existent). And guess what, I've been ignored every time. Would I love for one of my messages to be answered? Of course, and I'd include as many of you as I could, but I'm not optimistic for that.

P.S. If you ever do get the opportunity to purchase new Paulson chips, please do not immediately sell a small subset of your chips to pay for the whole lot (and then some) publicly. Memories can be somewhat short in business, but they aren't that short.
 
MegaTon44 said:
Having been a part of 2 rounds of Paulson buys (Boat & BTP), I know first hand that these ventures can happen. However, please know that there was a good bit of discretion involved. My ES chips sat on the shelf for 1.5 years before I displayed them publicly; probably 6-8 months for AS; 6 months for BTP. Why the need for discretion? 1.) Because sharing publicly could ruin things for folks in the future and 2.) I don't know the level of deception involved (could be none, could be a lot) and would never want to get anyone in trouble.

To @WedgeRock's point earlier in this thread about the genesis of the Boats buys being about profit - I would never want to discredit your source as I was very late to the buy in mid-2016 and may not have captured the original intention, but that is not how I recall it. On a "Flipper Intention" scale of 0 (no profit motivation) to 10 (exclusively about profit), I would have put ES around a 1 (a little higher for AS and BTP). In fact, people spoke about keeping these chips forever, and if I were a betting man, I'd say that a solid 2/3 of the Boat and BTP chips produced are still sitting with their original owners.

Fast forward to today, it is a different world when it comes to GPI. They have new ownership, are getting peppered by countless PCF folks, and undoubtedly monitoring this site for reselling. We need to remember that GPI is an $87M business, not $100B. I run Sales Ops for a company about half GPI's size and I can tell you about every deal in the pipeline. If you believe for one moment that GPI isn't up to speed on the shit we are pulling, then you need to focus on your self-awareness. Does this mean that I've never reached out to GPI sales reps? Absolutely not. But with any communication I've sent, I've been honest and upfront about my gaming license status (non-existent). And guess what, I've been ignored every time. Would I love for one of my messages to be answered? Of course, and I'd include as many of you as I could, but I'm not optimistic for that.

P.S. If you ever do get the opportunity to purchase new Paulson chips, please do not immediately sell a small subset of your chips to pay for the whole lot (and then some) publicly. Memories can be somewhat short in business, but they aren't that short.
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nothing to see here.. just rest assured that no one knows how or when an order for Paulson chips from GPI for use in a home game will happen..
 
It’s hard to do, and it was only made harder with the most recent GBs. I’ll take some of the @BGinGA action!
 
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