Hi All,
Firstly what a place! This forum is fantastic and hanging around here is inevitably going to cost me a lot of money.
I took the plunge recently and bought my first set of poker chips. After a lot of research and ordering samples I settled on the
Sidepot Inplay's because I liked the feel, sound and the brighter colours. I heard a lot about people oiling their chips which seemed long and laborious so my choice was re-enforced according the following claim:
"Industry Leading Innovation! Each chip in pre-oiled for optimum touch, feel, and sound – Borrowing from a little known phenomenon in the casino chip collecting world, we break-in these clay poker chips with a labor-intensive oil treatment process that mimics exposure to hand oil, a process that can take 10 hours or more per chip set for a chip collector. The result is a finely polished chip that livens up the chip colors and provides that unmistakable “InPlay” feel".
The sample set that I had definitely had the "used" feel which I was impressed with so out with the Credit Card.
When my order arrived and I opened the packages I was some what surprised at the dull dusty looking chips, which had almost no resemblance in quality to the samples I had ordered. Well I thought okay lets wash them, so with a very small amount of mild detergent, warm water and a tooth brush I set about cleaning them. Two hours later, and after emptying several buckets of highly coloured water - they had dried and were looking better, but still not close. Two days later I decided to try washing them again, and still only a mild improvement.
After the realisation that there was no way these chips were oiled, I decided to order some butchers block oil and give them the proper treatment. Four hours later I was looking at a set of 500 chips that were vibrant, shuffled like the samples and looked like the chips advertised on the Sidepot website.
Disappointed I was for sure. The Inplay chips are a premium priced chip which does not live up to its claim as a "pre-oiled", perhaps I was unlucky. The description of the oiling process sounds laborious, and would certainly be a major factor in helping define the premium price tag. With all that said, I am still happy for the chips, despite the criticism they receive from many who have looked at them. Trouble is that I want to buy more but no longer want to pay the premium since they are not what they are claimed to be.
Has anyone else had a similar experience with these?
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