Not Mine Crystal Parks at less than face value (1 Viewer)

[kmccormick100]

This set's a great deal when you consider face value https://www.ebay.com/itm/122003837298

@genopark you're gonna be a millionaire now haha

 

[stocky]

$20/chip average isn't as crazy as it sounds with the $500s and $1000s chips in the set.

 

[ChipEnvy]

That is a ton of $500's.

 

[BNM]

Or you could buy four,1000-chip sets of CPC customs for the same price. I love supply and demand and non-rational people! Dolla-dolla-bill-y'all!

 

[RowdyRawhide]

pretty sure seller is PCF member and was well known on CT

 

[Marius L]

Why are these so highly regarded? Doesn't seem like a super limited supply considering the few bigger lots that have been for sale rececently, but maybe the numbers are still very limited? On the other hand, i guess most of all oversize IHC (?) chips go for crazy high prices.
The chips look nice of course, but as BNM points out you can basically get a huge set of cumstom CPCs for a quarter of the price.. Seems a bit crazzyyy

 

[HaRDHouSeiNC]

Or you could buy four,1000-chip sets of CPC customs for the same price. I love supply and demand and non-rational people! Dolla-dolla-bill-y'all!

 

[guinness]

Or you could buy four,1000-chip sets of CPC customs for the same price. I love supply and demand and non-rational people! Dolla-dolla-bill-y'all!

You've never shuffled a stack of $100 CP's obviously.

While the price may seem high, as hard house has historically reached for the stars in his sales pricing, I have to defend him that he can ask whatever he wants for this very rare assembly of high denoms. There are some high end collectors who are happy to see that another collector is willing to sell. Maybe hard house is fishing for negotiations, but asking high when he may very well not care about selling is just fine IMO.

 

[links_slayer]

he's only gonna pocket just south of 9 dimes after eBay and paypal take their cut though.

 

[BNM]

You've never shuffled a stack of $100 CP's obviously.

While the price may seem high, as hard house has historically reached for the stars in his sales pricing, I have to defend him that he can ask whatever he wants for this very rare assembly of high denoms. There are some high end collectors who are happy to see that another collector is willing to sell. Maybe hard house is fishing for negotiations, but asking high when he may very well not care about selling is just fine IMO.

Correct but I wonder how much different can the CP TH&C chips be from the bevy of other Paulson TH&C chips out there, shuffling-wise? I've only had a handful of Paulson sets and I'm not a big shuffler, but I haven't noticed a huge difference in how they handle or sound. Was this a particularly good/different batch of clay that made them? Or, is it a visual thing?

This wasn't a criticism of the seller asking high dollar, quite the opposite, actually - he can ask whatever he wants for his product. Rather, it was about the crazy chip market and the people willing to pay that amount for that product. I get it, high end collectors with lots of disposable income wanting something rare - go with your good selves and get the thing you love. I just don't see the rationality of $20/chip with the other, significantly less expensive options out there. But, I know there are people out there that pay that due to the scarcity and I love the craziness that is the poker chip market!

 

[BiGGyT]

meh, those have holes in them.....

 

[kmccormick100]

Correct but I wonder how much different can the CP TH&C chips be from the bevy of other Paulson TH&C chips out there, shuffling-wise? I've only had a handful of Paulson sets and I'm not a big shuffler, but I haven't noticed a huge difference in how they handle or sound. Was this a particularly good/different batch of clay that made them? Or, is it a visual thing?

This wasn't a criticism of the seller asking high dollar, quite the opposite, actually - he can ask whatever he wants for his product. Rather, it was about the crazy chip market and the people willing to pay that amount for that product. I get it, high end collectors with lots of disposable income wanting something rare - go with your good selves and get the thing you love. I just don't see the rationality of $20/chip with the other, significantly less expensive options out there. But, I know there are people out there that pay that due to the scarcity and I love the craziness that is the poker chip market!

We were playing a tourney with oversized Garden City $500 and $1000 last night, it is a lot of fun shuffling stacks of 43mm Paulsons, and the high denom $100+ Crystal Parks are 43mm. Geno had a barrel of the $5000s which are 48mm and are just ridiculously awesome. Worth $200? To me no, But really cool.

 

[guinness]

Correct but I wonder how much different can the CP TH&C chips be from the bevy of other Paulson TH&C chips out there, shuffling-wise? I've only had a handful of Paulson sets and I'm not a big shuffler, but I haven't noticed a huge difference in how they handle or sound. Was this a particularly good/different batch of clay that made them? Or, is it a visual thing?

This wasn't a criticism of the seller asking high dollar, quite the opposite, actually - he can ask whatever he wants for his product. Rather, it was about the crazy chip market and the people willing to pay that amount for that product. I get it, high end collectors with lots of disposable income wanting something rare - go with your good selves and get the thing you love. I just don't see the rationality of $20/chip with the other, significantly less expensive options out there. But, I know there are people out there that pay that due to the scarcity and I love the craziness that is the poker chip market!

Yeah I wasn't trying to draw negative attention, I just wanted to voice that like many older chippers, I've handled hundreds of different sets and for whatever reason, the CP hundos are hawt hawt hawt. They are the perfect storm in size, look and denom ESPECIALLY if you have a big CP set. I had a huge CP set which included a rack of hundos and I always found myself drawn to shuffling the hundo. I can only imagine that the 500 and 1000 are similar. Most of the high denoms that came out of the CP original sale came out chaulky fresh and personally I think they look and feel fantastic. The fact that they are a hundo makes it nice as well since that is typically the big chip for most cash players. I dunno, I say drop $180 and get a sample stack of $100 to see for yourself.

I guess my rambling is this: Still to this day since I started chipping the CP $100 is my favorite stack to handle for feel (1st), look (2nd), denom (3rd) and epic set association (4th).

 

[genopark]

This set's a great deal when you consider face value https://www.ebay.com/itm/122003837298

@genopark you're gonna be a millionaire now haha

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