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Bill_Man618 said:
Why doesn’t Paulson just make the THC mold for a home use line and charge $3-$5 a chip to us. They can sell the RHC chips to the casinos. Then because casinos have a new found love for the worst spot patterns ever (5V?!?!?) they could leave those for a casino line and give us the good spots and mark it up. That way it casinos would still have the security because we have a limited number of the best spot patterns and we have THC mold.
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Why would they sell them for $5. Degens would pay at least $10
 
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Casinos don't want GPI selling any chips to the home market ever. Never mind that ceramics and plastic chips could be easily duplicated. Especially ceramics, with all the Chinese manufacturers. RFID and security features are almost impossible to duplicate, so if a casino does those right, there isn't much danger of fakes. The problem some casinos had in the early 2000s is they had RHC chips with basically no security features, and creative counterfeiters turned $1 and $5 chips into really good $100 fakes and made bank. The casino market dwarfed the home market, so GPI just shut down the home market, with a few exceptions here and there for about 10 years.

I always thought the 40/41mm Paulson pro mold was a nice compromise, but those came and went very quickly. Paulson has all the BCC molds they could use too, but they simply mothballed all of those and shoved them in a closet.
 
FDLmold said:
Casinos don't want GPI selling any chips to the home market ever. Never mind that ceramics and plastic chips could be easily duplicated. Especially ceramics, with all the Chinese manufacturers. RFID and security features are almost impossible to duplicate, so if a casino does those right, there isn't much danger of fakes. The problem some casinos had in the early 2000s is they had RHC chips with basically no security features, and creative counterfeiters turned $1 and $5 chips into really good $100 fakes and made bank. The casino market dwarfed the home market, so GPI just shut down the home market, with a few exceptions here and there for about 10 years.

I always thought the 40/41mm Paulson pro mold was a nice compromise, but those came and went very quickly. Paulson has all the BCC molds they could use too, but they simply mothballed all of those and shoved them in a closet.
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Serious question about “security features”
Maybe it’s because I drink when I’m awake, but when do blacklight security features ever come into play. Whenever I’ve cashed in chips they usually just fan them out and give me my $20.
 
chipinla said:
Serious question about “security features”
Maybe it’s because I drink when I’m awake, but when do blacklight security features ever come into play. Whenever I’ve cashed in chips they usually just fan them out and give me my $20.
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The surveillance camera looking down at the transaction within the cage, can see the security marks on the chips. That is why they fan them out.
 
Beakertwang said:
What's this now?
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Green Valley Ranch. They faked the $100 RHC chips using lower value chips. Even when GVR knew there were fakes, they went through their chips and still couldn't find them. I think that's how it went. The guy or guys doing it got found out when the hooker or stripper one of them was dating wanted in on it and didn't feel like she was getting enough so she ratted them out and their garage got raided.
 
FDLmold said:
Green Valley Ranch. They faked the $100 RHC chips using lower value chips. Even when GVR knew there were fakes, they went through their chips and still couldn't find them. I think that's how it went. The guy or guys doing it got found out when the hooker or stripper one of them was dating wanted in on it and didn't feel like she was getting enough so she ratted them out and their garage got raided.
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What did the chip look like?!?
 
FDLmold said:
Green Valley Ranch. They faked the $100 RHC chips using lower value chips. Even when GVR knew there were fakes, they went through their chips and still couldn't find them. I think that's how it went. The guy or guys doing it got found out when the hooker or stripper one of them was dating wanted in on it and didn't feel like she was getting enough so she ratted them out and their garage got raided.
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arch3r said:
But I celebrate festivus. Bring out the aluminum pole.
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Only 5 more days!

Let's get the airing of grievances started.

First, @kk405 and @JeepologyOffroad , you've made beautiful chips that are going to make me deplete my chipping emergency fund and make me delay a CPC add on. I've got a huge problem with that.

Now you @arch3r
 
kmccormick100 said:
Suits mold > RHC, come at me
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Agreed. And they're perfect for the home market since to my knowledge they've never been used in casinos. Same with the BCC molds like C&S. They could make good money bringing back those two molds dedicated only to the home market. MGK would be eff'n fantastic too!!!

Home market is there and will buy chips somewhere. I don't see why the casinos would care as long as they are different molds than the ones they are buying. Doesn't CPC have some casino customers too, or are they home market only now?
 
Wow! Fantastic job. Most of the other GBs haven’t done it for me- my tastes tend away from all bright all the time sets.
These inlayed sets are good. Will try to get sample sets for sure, but still wouldn’t need to get a set.

But for F’s sake these hotstamps… A HS set was the big itch I still needed to scratch, and I absolutely LOVE the colors on these, especially the cash levels. As a previous owner of some Binions HOF’s I would love to get a more playable version of those.

Do I think I’ll end up with any of these? Nope.

Did I already have a hot stamp plan in place before I saw these to be happy in my own little chipping retirement. Sure

Did I just list a Grand Seiko, a Tissot, an Oris, and a Tag just in case some shake loose? You’re damn right I did…
 
AZBOARDER13 said:
Wow! Fantastic job. Most of the other GBs haven’t done it for me- my tastes tend away from all bright all the time sets.
These inlayed sets are good. Will try to get sample sets for sure, but still wouldn’t need to get a set.

But for F’s sake these hotstamps… A HS set was the big itch I still needed to scratch, and I absolutely LOVE the colors on these, especially the cash levels. As a previous owner of some Binions HOF’s I would love to get a more playable version of those.

Do I think I’ll end up with any of these? Nope.

Did I already have a hot stamp plan in place before I saw these to be happy in my own little chipping retirement. Sure

Did I just list a Grand Seiko, a Tissot, an Oris, and a Tag just in case some shake loose? You’re damn right I did…
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I don’t have any watches, but am willing to sell pics of my wife’s boobs…any takers?
 

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