Very good info, thanks.
I don’t know the numbers. Also wasn’t involved in the “selling them to us” and didn’t get a dime from vendor sale
Yes. Agreed on all points. I haven’t been around here long enough to be able to say those things. HSI was the last sale TCR released public numbers. Steppenwolf gave me JD numbers privately, and someone else recently gave me HSCleveland numbers privately.
Cool. When you front the cash and the work to do it I’m sure you’ll do just that.
I remember after the first Stars NAGBs, at least one guy on the inside shared a lot of information about how it went down. According to him, they were careful about the amounts of chips they ordered because they wanted it to look like a typical casino order, because they didn’t want to raise any eyebrows, because they were hoping to continue ordering more chips.
Fair enough, but my point is that this is/was an assumption on the part of the people doing the ordering.
Very true. And I’ve also often speculated that at least a Paulson sales rep was aware of what was going on.
Sure but there are only a few people truly qualified to comment on this, and it is my understanding additional chip allocation orders did stop at some point (or else there would be way more ES $100s than what’s out there).
Again, my point is that any limitations on the breakdowns that could be ordered were put there by the GB organizers, not by Paulson.
Wait, why?
Why not? If only 100 chips of a certain type are known to exist, that makes them rare, regardless of what they are.
Fair enough but I just wouldn’t treat them as valuable collection items is all. How do we really “know” the counts going forward. If you value rarity I’m assuming ur hoping them to hold value or go up in value etc.
Aw, I don’t expect anything. But it doesn’t hurt to ask, or express a desire to know.
Why though? I understand and support Tigers, Sunset Beach, etc. amounts not being shared by those sellers/vendors. It makes business and financial sense.
I don’t know. I already said it’s none of my business. But as somebody who likes to talk chips and who likes to answer questions and pass along whatever knowledge I’ve scraped together, I’ll always push for information. It’s nice to have, especially in a hobby that is so lacking in information.
Good thing we’re in the opinions thread.
the issue is us chippers have a more nuanced approach to condition. the vendor in question only has 2. new/unused and not new/used. from all the sales I have seen from them this approach has been consistant and they have always maintained they dont sort for condition. So when buying used from them, one should always expect condition to be mixed.
Yeah I tried to make the same arguments, defending the vendor of that particular sale. But @BarrieJ3 makes a fair point, when you look at the big picture of that sale.
i bought the chips with the expectation they would be used. i had no expectation they would be anything but that. Yes I might be biased because I am one of those people that benefited from recieving chips in condtion that exceeded my expectation. I see his side, but you cant really be upset from an expectation that one created for themselves especially when the vendor has been consistent with their approach.
Again, I originally defended the chip room on this one, for all the reasons you’ve given.
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