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Have Chinese cards mold replica sets gone too far? (4 Viewers)

Taghkanic said:
It seems odd to ask for knockoffs of existing chips (especially fantasy chips) when the sky is the limit on what you can design for Tinas. Fake Sunset Beach or BTPs? IDGI

If the designs are going to be copies, I would think replicating ultra rare and historic chips would be the move.
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I agree that it seems odd at first glance, but I do "get it" -- people simply want chips (or copies of chips) that they like and think are cool/pretty/whatever. And if a $5-to-$15 per chip NAGB design falls into your desired design wheelhouse, then getting a 50c/chip Tina clone makes a great deal of sense, especially if the originals are hard to come by. Economy and availability are two very powerful marketplace draws. Ask Henry Ford.

Personally, I'd prefer making a Tina set that's either a unique design, or a copy (or tribute) of something that's not otherwise realistically available, or a combination of chip design/colors I really like from different sets but with unique label-area artwork.
 
upNdown said:
And yet they were taken out of play. You don't think that was just a coincidence?
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Coincidence? No. But I doubt that Caesars would have ever noticed or cared about the similarity had they not been informed by a white knight do-gooder with an agenda.

It wasn't my call, but if I had been the person- in-charge at Caesars, I would not have swapped sets. And I think it's ridiculous that they were spooked by a 'internet reporter' into thinking that their set was suddenly "compromised". It was not.
 
BGinGA said:
And if a $5-to-$15 per chip NAGB design falls into your desired design wheelhouse, then getting a 50c/chip Tina clone makes a great deal of sense, especially if the originals are hard to come by.
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Point of information requested, since I was not a member when most of the GPI group buys occurred:

My outsider’s impression is that chips like the BTPs, SBs and RPCs (less so the extensive AS/ES sets whose inlays seemed more serious) were created with the expectation that many would wind up having their inlays replaced... Not all, but many.

In other words, that the inlay designs were necessary placeholders to maintain the pretense of a casino or cruise ship order. But that the artwork was for some buyers a necessity more than a feature. Just to do what was needed to fill the void in custom chips after they stopped selling to the public.

I understand that plenty of people now value that artwork either for itself or as an artifact of the process of getting these orders through. Also that “murder” and milling and new hotstamps weren’t quite as big a thing even 5 years ago compared to now.

By contrast, my sense is that the recent Tiger inlays are keepers for most buyers.

Just curious if that an of inlay replacement was part of the original plan for some of these chips. If so that’s part of why I find the Tina copies head-scratching.
 
Yuck!! When "companies" start trying to turn a profit off this garbage... millions of other mold opportunities and wow... how original and amazing...
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Personally if someone would make a "D**k n B**ls" mold you could count me in for a set of these
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(Photo courtesy of the visionary genius @BarrieJ3 )

But no... first let's rip off GPI with the same boring mold so they get pissed and stop selling anything but house molds, then let's have after market "companies" push that "poop" to make a couple $$$.

"Has this crap gone Too Far??"

Confucius say...

"Duhh, that no brainer, YES! Next subject!"
 
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reverseG said:
TBH I can't really understand why even one person is bothered by this. It feels so unnecessarily snobby. There are no original ideas. I genuinely cannot believe this is a 54 page thread.
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This IS an original idea, and frankly, it is necessarily snobby. Ask anybody here.

over/under for thread is currently at 87 pages, get your wagers in now....
 
I’ll never understand the “snobby” complaint. I also don’t understand the “gatekeeping” complaints.
I wonder if this is partly a generational thing. Do kids who grew up in a world where they never had to buy a record or CD have less of an appreciation of IP and artists’ rights?
 
BGinGA said:
This IS an original idea, and frankly, it is necessarily snobby. Ask anybody here.

over/under for thread is currently at 87 pages, get your wagers in now....
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allforcharity said:
Over. Definitely, over. Let me re-mortgage the house so I can drum up some betting funds. Easiest money ever.
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I dunno about that. It did almost die. We went 7 months in between post 1558 and 1559.

Set a date and I might consider taking the under.
 

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