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http://www.ebay.com/itm/500-WSOP-Ceramic-Poker-Chips/291967648665
 
It's a matter of preference. But I agree, some ceramics are very nice chips. The ad made it sound like ceramics are the only high quality option.
 
I wonder who makes these, and are they not worried about copyright issues?
 
I have a sample set of these. They're not as good as the CPS chips.

The chips look grubby because there is an imprinted "shadow" towards the edge of the chip which is meant to look like a Paulson indent. Also if you look at the 25 chip in particular (though this is the case with all the chips), the green of the overlay (or whatever you want to call it) obscures the yellow of the spot.

The yellow of the 25k should be more orangey, the blue of the 500 should be more lilac, and the overall printing quality isn't great.

Close but no cigar.

Weird, because the seller also supplies EPT copies and they're actually pretty good (from what I can gather from a small sample set, anyway).

ETA: looks like the issue has been sorted where the overlay colour obscures the spot colour.
 
Could be Mr. Chips leftover stock. Didn't he just close up shop recently?
 
According to the seller, he says he's ordering them in from China. Not old stock from a defunct Mr Chips.
 
Although the Mr.Chip.eu chips were also Chinese-produced. Likely the same manufacturer.
 
I wonder how many Chinese manufacturers there are who make chips? Single figures, double figures, hundreds? And how many of these are actual manufacturers as opposed to middle men and distributors?
 
Less than a half-dozen actual chip manufacturers, might be half that many. Hundreds of middlemen, many of which pose as manufacturers.
 
Wish I could get that label though. Even though it wouldn't be an exact match for the real thing, I bet it would look awesome on a set of Majestics for home game use.

Makes me wish I was a graphics designer and not a software developer. lol
 
I just received a sample set of these. Compared to pictures of the real chips I see the labels appear to be a bit fuzzy and digits of the denominations oversized. I've never had one of the real chips in my hand, I'm just going off the pictures I can find. YMMV, but I don't think they are worth the big $ they are asking for them.

One really funny thing: on some of the chips you can see the classic top-hat-and-cane image. That is not part of the chip, it is actually part of the printing! To me it just doesn't look good, and makes the chip look like it is dirty.

I REALLY need to get my set of 1000 blank Majestics ordered....
 

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