detroitdad
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Take your time with them. Get a solid feel for a great mold. Then remember, keep one of the 007 chips for yourself
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Poker Chip Shipping Tips and Tricks (17 Viewers)
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Take your time with them. Get a solid feel for a great mold. Then remember, keep one of the 007 chips for yourself
noxnok
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Smart!
I needed a way to transport about 500 chips to work today to pack them up to be mailed off today.
This has never been something I needed to worry about before as I am usually buying, not selling.
So as I was looking around in the basement I saw a box for something else I had recently purchased and thought it would work.
Well it worked much better than I expected!!! It holds six racks and they don't budge!!!! I put the 4 racks of ASM chips I have here in it as a test to see how well it did. I turned the box upside down and shook it pretty violently. Nothing moved.
So for the other gun guys on here, you may want to order a few lowers from Palmetto State Armory just to get some of these great boxes!
This has never been something I needed to worry about before as I am usually buying, not selling.
So as I was looking around in the basement I saw a box for something else I had recently purchased and thought it would work.
Well it worked much better than I expected!!! It holds six racks and they don't budge!!!! I put the 4 racks of ASM chips I have here in it as a test to see how well it did. I turned the box upside down and shook it pretty violently. Nothing moved.
So for the other gun guys on here, you may want to order a few lowers from Palmetto State Armory just to get some of these great boxes!
Ok I absolutely need to get myself a setup like this.
Received these from @krafticus today - I love this method for chips being placed in a bubble mailer. The chips do not move even a little bit while the bag is intact.
Received these from @krafticus today - I love this method for chips being placed in a bubble mailer. The chips do not move even a little bit while the bag is intact.
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My wife has a vacuum sealer, and it works great for chips.
Have you done this clay chips - CC, CPC or Paulsons? Any concerns with doing damage?
Did it with my cc CPS set that I sold last year to @monkeydog. The original chips came wrapped in chip boxes, so I used the vacuum sealer to seal stacks of 25. They then went into the chip boxes, wrapped in bubble wrap, then into a box. As far as I know, they arrived safe and sound.
If they're really nice chips, and you offer them first to us down here in Bradenton / Sarasota, you won't have to ship them at all.
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I think they would bounce around a little in there. If you wrapped them in plastic wrap first to keep them from moving around, that is greatHello guys,
This is how I will send my sample.
What is your thought about this method ?
Thank you !
I will try, beacuse the bag is tiny ! And they don't bounce that much !
I don't know if it could have a real impact
The key to shipping any chips is to immobilize them and make sure they don't move/bang against one another. Wrapping the stack tightly in plastic wrap before putting them in the bag will keep them from banging against one another.
Not only 'banging' but any sliding against each other. As others have stated, these need to be wrapped so that they are TIGHT. If I received the chips In a pouch like that (from another chipper), I'd be a tad surprised. The pouch is a nice touch, but unless they're secured, it's just not done right.
Wrap in Saran plastic wrap, twisting both ends to "tighten" any loose plastic material. Then tape the ends (better than my example, as I didn't want to hide the twisted ends) to create a single block of chips that can't rub against each other.
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FDLmold
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Saw this thread for the first time today.
Yup! And DON'T use the "Press 'n Seal" type unless you use a layer of regular plastic wrap first. The PnS allows you to wrap tighter but will leave a sticky residue on the chips.
detroitdad
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I prefer singing my sample sets between two pieces of cardboard and then using a bubble wrap envelope. And I secure each chip in individually to the cardboard before applying the second piece
Best way I agree. Cardboard/hardboard sandwich FTW. Then just place in small bubble mailer (6x9 or smaller).
I tried something new when I mailed out my sample sets.
I picked up a pack of baseball card sleeves (98 cents for 100, probably cheaper in bulk)
I use 1 for every 2 chips. I put one in, fold it over, then put the other chip in the opening and tape it.
The chips don't rub because there's a layer of plastic around both chips.
I also put them between cardboard after that.
I picked up a pack of baseball card sleeves (98 cents for 100, probably cheaper in bulk)
I use 1 for every 2 chips. I put one in, fold it over, then put the other chip in the opening and tape it.
The chips don't rub because there's a layer of plastic around both chips.
I also put them between cardboard after that.
saran wrap chips into stacks of about 30, then saran wrap those stacks together with 5 side by side. Then put them into the small USPS flatrate box
Then stack these flat rate boxes inside the tall medium flat rate box
They will fit in and line up almost perfectly. Doing this, I think you can ship about 900 chips but if you need to do less you just put empty small USPS flat rate boxes on the sides.
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Then stack these flat rate boxes inside the tall medium flat rate box
They will fit in and line up almost perfectly. Doing this, I think you can ship about 900 chips but if you need to do less you just put empty small USPS flat rate boxes on the sides.
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saran wrap chips into stacks of about 30, then saran wrap those stacks together with 5 side by side. Then put them into the small USPS flatrate box
With that many chips in a SFRB, I would recommend putting the SFRB box inside of at least 1 padded flat rate envelope for 5 cents more. Depending on the weight, I sometimes will use up to 3 padded flat rate envelopes. There is only about 1/16" of cardboard between the chips and outside of the box.
detroitdad
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If I'm shipping a set of chips versus a sample set i encase the entire flat rate box in packaging tape for extra security
WedgeRock
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I've always done that with a sheet of printer paper. Then wrap the barrel in bubble wrap.
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bentax1978
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IMO, every square inch of the of the box should be covered with tape when shipping chips, especially SFRB.
to be fair, I end up putting on so much saran wrap that its hard to see which chips I'm packing after all is said and done.
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