They complete their sets for their enjoyment. Your set needs shouldn’t trump their enjoyment. Just because you got the chips first, only you and those with them may acquire them? Someone don’t get to play poker as much as others and just like chips! It’s nostalgic possibly for vegas trips or fun splashy games they no longer can play.
See it is controversial lol. If someone is a hoarder and that’s what they enjoy so be it!
It's weird.
no doubt. I was going to write “I just wish I could choose to not sell to them without backlash” and realized holy shit a lot of people do that. It’s just another nail in the coffin causing everyone to sell the good stuff well priced privately.
Does it make it any less of a black hole if they're felting them? Hypothetically, let's say they're still not helping other people finish playable sets, still buying up the good deals and not releasing them, but each set gets felted once every year or two at least. Does that make it better? Or does it still feel bad to send them that direction?
Sure. I consider a "black hole" to be the collectors who actively buy, never sell, don't interact much on forum, and you don't ever see the chips again - pr0n, felted, etc.
Idk honestly. Like I said, I've came to a point where I don't demonize anyone, and idc what people do with sh*t they own, including clay disks. I mean preferably don't pelt small children with them, but whatevs.
Agree. Get those higher denoms into play.Incoming controversial chip opinion:
People that don't host and won't host, shouldn't have double booyah or higher breakdowns.
There's people that felt their chips, there's those that know they won't ever really felt their chips and are basically "collectors". Then....there's this in between. Folks that do play poker, but they won't ever host, but they enjoy chipping/collecting, and have massive sets. Unpopular opinion - they don't need more than 300 $5s max for these plentiful yet rare sets.
This isn't pointed at any one specific person, y'all know who you are. By the way, I fit into this category myself
its a free market. Chips are a want, not a need. They go to whoever wants them the most, as measured by the $$$ offered and accepted. Krish accumulated an immense collection of unobtainable sets by offering 10x what chips were previously selling for. In some cases more. If you really want something, offer more and see what happens. No set is priceless. People wont part with scarce things casually.
Totally agree. Doesn't mean I have to like it.
I can't argue with this. I happen to go with 320 $5s in my .25/.50 sets (mostly because I've kept them in the same case, which has rows of 80.) But I will say that if I moved up to $1/1, $1/2, or $1/3, I'd probably want 5 or 6 racks.
I don't like flippers. But Most times I've sold racks or sets, it's been with the vague hope that we'd meet again someday. If those chips end up in the collection of some hoarder who never sells, that's not going to happen. That doesn't mean I dislike them as a PCFer or as a person. But I can see the sentiment.
There are special exceptions, like with the one below, where I'm going to add two racks of $5's to one of my cash sets because the chip is so damn beautiful
All things equal I agree if given the choice. Sometimes you don’t have a choice and when it comes to rare chips I think 3 racks is that cut off of still being comfortable.
If a set has sat without a plan for use in 5 years, it should be sold.
You sound like my wife.
There goes my epi pen fuck…
I am in this camp also!
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