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It's been a very nice day today, so I decided to get out of the office a bit & drive down to my local gaming store "The Game Room Store" in Fairfield NJ.
WOW!! EXPENSIVE!!
2 packs of the Maroon/Green Copags - $24.99.
2 packs of Poker Sized KEM's - $29.99.
Super Diamonds - .19 each
Suited Chips - .30 each
Dice chips - .50 each.
Fan of cards chips - 1.29 each
Acrylic chip racks - 9.99 each.
And surprizingly, no higher quality chips. No Paulsons. No NJ's. Tri-Color Chips was just about the best you could get.
I am all for paying a little extra in order to get top quality service/advice, but this is a bit extreme. I'll stick with ordering off the web from our trusted sponsors.
There's a billiards store around here with something similar. They have cancelled casino decks for $3 a piece, suited chips for .39 a piece, and some other kind of ABS chip for .59 a piece.
There was also a pinball machine/video game store that had 500 suited chips with case for $99.99. I was looking for a 500ct case (before I found CT) and they had empty ones for $49.99.
Yes, these is a Billiard store about 23 miles from me, the only one to carry chips and cards, and they have about the same prices as you experienced. Most people I know that have shopped there didn't object to these high prices,as they don't know any better.
There are a few of these type of stores around me. One that is a Brunswick retail store that carries poker tables and chips. All suited/dice metal slugged chips at about $.60 a piece. The other is a place called "Rec room". As the name indicates they carry all sorts of furniture for game rooms- including a bunch of poker tables. The slugged chips are around $.70 a piece and they have super diamonds for $.35 a piece. (Side note - the way they have the super diamonds displayed/stacked I thought I was staring at the mother load of yellow Fauxs until I looked at them closer ) The tables they sell are decnt but waaaayy overpriced. I saw ones that people on Scott Keens site can make for a couple hundred bucks being sold for $1000. The most expensive one they had was a poker table that was shaped like a football and had a football field imprinted on the green cloth for $10k In all fairness that included chairs and a top to convert it to a dining room table. Anyone's spouse let them have a dining room table shaped like a football???
Side note - the way they have the super diamonds displayed/stacked I thought I was staring at the mother load of yellow Fauxs until I looked at them closer
I did almost the same thing! I saw a big swatch of blue & orange and said to myself "OK Jess, don't get too excited. It's probably not what you think it is."
There are several local "chain" poker stores near me that were selling 500 NEXGENS for $299.99..that is their top of the line chip. Everything else in the store is also WAY overpriced. Just costs way too much to keep the doors open I guess.....
We have a store here that has Skulls, but that's as good as it gets. 300 piece PSO-like set for $489 + tax! They do have a .25/.50 cash game on Fridays in the back room though. The lady at the store asked me if I played poker, after I said yes, she asked me if I was a cop or had ever worked for the police department before! I said,"no and it's an urban myth that they have to tell you anyway." I haven't been to play because it's just a matter of time til they get busted. Especially after this post.
Probably will never see Quality ceramics or Clay chips in a B & M store.
Not many B & M's that can survive off a 25-33% margin at best.
Just to make a 25% margin on Paulsons they would have to be a minimum
$1.29 per. TH & C's more like $1.45 per. ROI on these types of sets are poor
and the turn probably even worse. Can you imagine even the most knowledgable
retailer trying to explain why this set of 300 Paulsons is $450? The market
for these high end sets is limited to those who are educated about chips
and the only place to get that education is the internet. OK, Here at CT!
So where do they buy their chips? Compare this to dice chips at a quarter
each and you'll see why. 300% ROI at minimum, less capital
outlay, less inventory risk, and off course "Official" 11.5g weight
Just MHO
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) The tables they sell are decnt but waaaayy overpriced. I saw ones that people on Scott Keens site can make for a couple hundred bucks being sold for $1000. The most expensive one they had was a poker table that was shaped like a football and had a football field imprinted on the green cloth for $10k 
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