Ok! I'm officially taking the helm for this effort.
I recently started a little side business where I run bar games for a few places around my town (Atlanta) and I've decided I want some prize chips and bounty chips for it. Luckily for my wallet, I don't NEED to have my company's name or logo on these things, so this group buy works perfectly for me.
Ok, I want larger than normal (43mm I think it is) ceramic chips for the bounty chips and 1.75 in. (and 2mm thick) coins for the prize chips. And while I am absolutely open to design ideas and suggestions, I'm going to try and make this happen in a relatively short time frame, so there won't be endless polls or shuffling of feet.
Bounty Chips:
Space Monkey - It sounded like you had a contact at Chipco or knew something about their pricing schemes. You mentioned a couple months ago that you could get these at ~$0.90/chip. Can you share your info with the group or at least shoot me a PM? Thanks.
I like these designs, and it sounded like many of the rest of you did as well. We should take these as a starting point and talk about how they can be better. For example, I feel pretty strongly that a bounty chip should say "bounty" on it somewhere. I do have some Photoshop skills, so I may be able to do some work on these on my own. Would the creators of these images be willing to share their original Photoshop (or whatever design program) files with me?
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Prize Coins:
I'm going with
CustomEmblems.com for the vendor. I chose them because they have no die setup fee and they have free creative services, so we won't have to do all the creative heavy lifting on our own.
It looks like the minimum order is 300, so obviously that's the minimum level of interest we'll need. The cost will be $2.41 each for a standard 4 color coin. I don't know yet if shipping is free/included. It will be $0.50 extra per coin for a cut edge (which I think is worth considering). Epoxy is an extra $0.10 per side, but I have no idea what the purpose of epoxy on a coin is, so could someone fill me in? If we get up to 500 coins, the price drops to $2.10 each.
I'm going to shoot Custom Emblems an email later today and get the creative ball rolling on a possible design that is poker themed, yet does not include anything stupid like: two aces, two kings, "the nuts," "hold'em," "all-in," or "no limit." I think the consensus was we wanted something more like "Poker Tournament Champion" or something of the sort. Is that correct?
Okay people, what do you think?
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