To Be Labelled, 25c for Horseshoe Set?? (1 Viewer)

[upNdown]

Did you put the labels over the hotstamp on those, or did you have them milled first?

I was looking to do these as cheaply as possible. I got this rack on eBay for $45 shipped. They were so worn that the hot stamp indentations were worn completely smooth on most of the chips.
Advantage - no milling required
Disadvantage - the surfaces were so worn that I couldn't use the nicer laminated labels. I know, because I ordered some samples from gear and tried it out - spinner city.

 

[luckbox]

russ remember those fitz quarters you had that i mistakenly bought then resold immediately since i had a bunch already????

i think i am gonna just stick with one of these two for now but really not a fan of mixed casino sets.....

 

[echoseven]

I was looking to do these as cheaply as possible. I got this rack on eBay for $45 shipped. They were so worn that the hot stamp indentations were worn completely smooth on most of the chips.
Advantage - no milling required
Disadvantage - the surfaces were so worn that I couldn't use the nicer laminated labels. I know, because I ordered some samples from gear and tried it out - spinner city.

Sometimes going cheap pays off, they look great!

 

[BGinGA]

Making replica labels for the higher denominations to replace chips that are in demand, actually devalues those chips by reducing the demand for them, and I won't do that.

I would agree, if the chips were simply "in demand" and hard to find. But given the number of legitimate tournament sets that will exist without any high denomination chips at all (because of sheer unavailability), I think it makes this a reasonable market niche. Think Casablanca $1 or $1000 chip relabel projects, for example -- those chips exist too, but not in numbers to support the rest of the sets in existence. Using re-labeled substitutes is the only way to create playable sets, and has had no bearing on the value of the nearly-impossible-to-find originals.

Re-labeling a gray 818-spotted Casa chip as a Horseshoe Cleveland $5000 will have exactly ZERO impact on the value of the real McCoy - those that want the real deal will still spend whatever is necessary to get them. It's your business to run as you want, but your logic is flawed in this case.

 

[GoStumpy]

Too funny, I also have Lucky Derby $5's probably from the same eBay seller that I am waiting on labels to turn into quarters