[rolandshoffinc]

I was looking at a post on the M to M and saw the Palmas chips and Crystal Parks going for good money.
Horror Story 1
I was in Spinettis about 2 1/2 years ago and they had Palmas chips by the thousands upon thousands so I bought 1800 at 80 cents per chip and sold them for a little over $1 a chip. So I made about 20% profit which I was satisfied with.
Now that I see the prices they are bringing it makes me sick.
I can't believe I didn't buy more.

What is your story,
Roland Shoff

[erikk]

I was going to buy a set of PNY when they first started really being mentioned here but I convinced myself that I had just gotten my set of pharaohs and I didn't need another set. This was back when the $1ks were available in any quantity at $2 a piece. Finally when the $500Sec sold out I convinced myself that even if I didn't need a second set it wasn't a bad investment so I still got 700 of them at $1.25/per so I guess i can't complain completely about missing the boat but it woulda been nice to buy 2000 when I was first thinking about it. I coulda retired like Deuce

[jojobinks]

80% of our stories (i guess) are not buying 10000 pny's at $1.25 (and 1000's at $2).

eeks...erikk beat me to it.

[Jambine]

Yard sale/Block sale a few years ago. Saw a set of 1,000 Paulson Starburst hot-stamps. I think there were 4 colors, still in the cardboard boxes, stacked into a moving box. Looked like they had been used, but not much. I went to find the guy and ask how much he wanted (yes I know I should have picked them up and then gone to find him). By the time I tracked him down, his wife had just sold them to someone else for $25.00. I panic, WHO, WHERE, WHEN, I ask. She says, “Some guy in that red truck that just left".

Hey Red Truck, come back with my chips!

Damn, that story still gives me a stomach ache

[panthershutch15]

300 original JB paulsons sold on ebay for $510 (at the time they were selling for $5 per) because the guy had them labeled as Bluechip. I was high bidder at $300 with my high at $500 (I planned to be there for the end to outbid anyone who tried to overtake me). Well, I didn't make it to the computer in time and the auction ended for $510, later that week, the exact same chips were for sale on ebay from the guy that outbid me in the final seconds, which fetched $1,500 buy it now.

But, the next week I found a guy willing to part with 180 original JB's for $225 and free shipping, which eased my pain a little.

[noelsarchs]

Originally Posted by rolandshoffinc

I was looking at a post on the M to M and saw the Palmas chips and Crystal Parks going for good money.
Horror Story 1
I was in Spinettis about 2 1/2 years ago and they had Palmas chips by the thousands upon thousands so I bought 1800 at 80 cents per chip and sold them for a little over $1 a chip. So I made about 20% profit which I was satisfied with.
Now that I see the prices they are bringing it makes me sick.
I can't believe I didn't buy more.

What is your story,
Roland Shoff

Trust me, I'm not getting nearly the price that I paid for these. So it makes me even more sick. Bought most of these from phil lin who told me that these were going to be the next huge profitable chip and I paid a small fortune for many of these. Well, the only profit here was from my bank account to his.

The worst part is, that I was trying like mad to sell some a few months ago before the NY'er boom hit because I knew they were going to go through the roof. I just didn't have the extra cash to pull the trigger on them unless I sold off some of my Palmas....

Just to clarify something too. when you say Spinetti's had thousands, please remember that the ENTIRE lot of Palmas quantity wise is less than just the NEW YORKER $5's alone.

[Hopin2Steal]

Originally Posted by rolandshoffinc

I was looking at a post on the M to M and saw the Palmas chips and Crystal Parks going for good money.
Horror Story 1
I was in Spinettis about 2 1/2 years ago and they had Palmas chips by the thousands upon thousands so I bought 1800 at 80 cents per chip and sold them for a little over $1 a chip. So I made about 20% profit which I was satisfied with.
Now that I see the prices they are bringing it makes me sick.
I can't believe I didn't buy more.

What is your story,
Roland Shoff

When Vineyards first started selling on EBay I was not impressed with the design. But they were selling pretty well. I was finally interested in getting a set and pass up several opportunities to get 500 chip sets because he switched in 100s for 20s. (100 1s, 2s, 3s, 5s and 100s). Not to mention I didn't buy the sets with 20s. To mention I passed on a startup trade of 500 Scandia chips for 500 vineyards (I did alright on the Scandias but still...)

And then there was that short window of opportunity on Paulson fantasy chips I missed (not completely though). I got my first set of suited composite chips from my parents for Xmas in 2003. I showed them off to my father-in-law. He laughed. "I'll show you some *nice* chips." He brings back some Paulsons that he says he paid $1 per chip to buy when in Vegas some years ago. $1 and $5 Scandias, $10 Casino de Mexicos, $25 and $100 Casino de Istmus with scallop inlays! I had never seen Paulsons before. A couple of weeks later, I searched on Ebay. Racks of fantasy chips were selling for $60 to $80. I thought that was expensive. Oops. They started going for $90+ the following week.

I did eventually place a "I want all the Paulsons you have" order with Spinettis, which went a long way toward paying for my set of GLCs but even those I parted with too quickly. Ah well, the beauty of 20/20 hindsight.

I'm sure there were others, but those are the examples that standout...

-JC-

[ace-in-space]

I like Vinelyard's design better than Scandia's but it is easier to get $500 chips from the latter.

If you are a collector Vineyard is better.

If you intend to use them to play poker Scandia is more practical ($2,$3 Vineyard are really not that useful.)

[Lucky Louie]

I had a chance to buy yellow Faux Clay back when........