If I could turn back time (advice for newbies) (2 Viewers)

[BonScot]

If you could go back in time and meet yourself on the day that you got into chipping what advice would you give yourself?

Obviously “get samples” is a given as is “don’t get married” but what else?

I would probably tell myself to just cut to the chase and order a CPC limit set from the get go!!

 

[ImCrossland]

DON’T DO IT

 

[LeGold]

"Turn around!"

 

[LeGold]

 

[chkyrslf]

1. Avoid PCF
2. Buy dice chips
3. Be happy and rich forever

 

[PocketAces]

I should have been more aggressive chasing the stuff I really wanted from the start. Two years on and I still regret not making a big offer on a set of Lakeshores - I will never know if that would have worked at the time!

So I would go back in time and tell myself to stop thinking and start buying

 

[LeGold]

So I would go back in time and tell myself to stop thinking and start buying

And I am the one here being called enabler?!

 

[Eriks]

I remember an auction of a Lakeshore set that ended at the unheard amount of $7000 something. Or passing on two racks of secondary PCA $5s @ $400 each cause lol at those overpriced chips

 

[PocketAces]

PCA $5s @ $400

Still overpriced imo

an auction of a Lakeshore set that ended at the unheard of amount of $7000

Just north of $8/chip or something like that. I think I made an offer last summer for something close to $30/chip. Was turned down pretty quick.

 

[Josh Kifer]

..... If I could find a way .....

 

[upNdown]

I’d say “be one of those cool people who rarely posts on PCF, but who everybody enjoys at meetups, and who apparently only owns a couple of marginal clay sets and is very happy with them.”

 

[LeLe]

I wish I KNOW about chipping 10 years earlier

 

[Beakertwang]

I’d take back those words that hurt you, and you’d stay.

 

[JeepologyOffroad]

Wouldn’t change a thing. From the old days of changing sets like a pair of shoes to the parabolic rise in prices and hoarding. It’s been a blast.

 

[raynmanas]

1. when you buy 5,000+ TRKs for <$1/chip, wait a decade+ before you sell them

 

[CrazyEddie]

If you could go back in time and meet yourself on the day that you got into chipping what advice would you give yourself?

Buy more storage.

 

[Josh Kifer]

I’d take back those words that hurt you, and you’d stay.

.... If I could reach those stars... I'd bring them all to you....

 

[Machine]

.... If I could reach those stars... I'd bring them all to you....

Then you'd love me, love me.... Like you used to do

 

[JScott]

I'm one of the only guys that doesn't push the need for samples I guess. I've never bought samples. At most was I met with @allforcharity which helped me, but even then I went in a completely different direction than I thought I would.

Only thing I'd have done differently is bought more at lower prices, but that goes for everything, real estate, crypto.

1. Avoid PCF
2. Buy dice chips
3. Be happy and rich forever

Funny thing is... most of us are still ahead. I'd say my paltry chip collection is worth at least $10k more than I paid for it. At LEAST. So buy chips and you can be rich AND happy with more chips

 

[CraigT78]

My advice would be "join the not a group buy"

 

[Josh Kifer]

Then you'd love me, love me.... Like you used to do

If I could turnnnn baaaack timmeeee!

 

[toothpic]

Is it limited to chips or could we talk other things? Like load up on Bitcoin and don't lose that shit type talk? lol

 

[johnjohn]

be happy with your WTHC and move on.

 

[gopherblue]

..... If I could find a way .....

.... If I could reach those stars... I'd bring them all to you....

If I could turnnnn baaaack timmeeee!

Snap out of it!

 

[Stufflymcstuff]

Buy out every Chip room sale.

 

[Josh Kifer]

Snap out of it!

I'll fooking do another verse! Don't test me!

 

[gopherblue]

I'll fooking do another verse! Don't test me!

 

[Windwalker]

Wouldn’t change a thing. From the old days of changing sets like a pair of shoes to the parabolic rise in prices and hoarding. It’s been a blast.

Same. Although I don’t probably qualify for “old days”. It’s been a blast. Buying everything in sight, selling, trading, giveaways, all of it.

If anything, I wish I had bought more high denom sets earlier, had I realized I would find a way to get to a super low net cost by selling some sets to big off-forum home game runners at excellent margins. Turns out, once educated about chips and molds, some of the more diligent ones love the idea of felting real casino chips on their tables.

 

[toothpic]

Same. Although I don’t probably qualify for “old days”. It’s been a blast. Buying everything in sight, selling, trading, giveaways, all of it.

If anything, I wish I had bought more high denom sets earlier, had I realized I would find a way to get to a super low net cost by selling some sets to big off-forum home game runners at excellent margins. Turns out, once educated about chips and molds, some of the more diligent ones love the idea of felting real casino chips on their tables.

They are essentially buying our tournament sets for their home games lol
Heck my tournament sets don't usually have denoms as high.

You have shown them the light, there's no turning back now. Have any of them been open to creating CPC sets?

 

[upNdown]

Cher sang "if I could turn back time'" in 1989 - she was 43.
I was 16 at the time and 43 seemed impossibly old. Still, I had a bigtime crush on her.
So hot