Awwww man. Last Friday I found out I was going to have a game this week and decided I wanted more chips for it. I spent Friday figuring out the best breakdown and I had 500 Pharaoh's actually in the HPC shopping cart on Saturday at $1.03 per chip. However, in a moment of complete stupidity, I told myself that the game would be fine on my current chips and to wait a few weeks to buy more Pharaoh's (i.e., after I paid off the last set of Pharaohs and poker table I just built ). So, I did not go through with the order.

Damn my sense of fiscal responsibility. I think the lesson I should take away from this is to never ever take chips out of the shopping cart once you put them there b/c bad things can happen.
Even though it is a price hike for me, I definitely see MSPatton's point. I'm sure there are a lot more people out there who want to add 100 or 200 chips to an existing set up and/or build a set over time than buy a 1,000 chips off the bat. I do hope the new pricing structure brings HPC a lot more customers and wish MSPatton the best of luck with it.