Are you a Set Collector or a Singles person? Chime on in!

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I guess both
Way way way more rack and sets though
 
jhelik said:
wiser words have never been spoken...though I'm not sure there is a sets collector in every singles guy. Discuss.
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VERY TRUE!! There's usually no reverse cross over! As I have found myself content with all my sets (Too Many!) and pretty much in sets retirement I've found myself more and more interested in singles displays in my office and casino (LOL) Basement!

I am also very happy to see that there is some great communication between the sets and single guys and gals on this board, a true open minded desire to understand the ideas between the two methods of collecting versus the you're right Im wrong approach.

Disturbingly some one told me recently (and this isn't a topic change) that the sets crew over at PCF (✌️) have actively tried to trash the value of certain rare chips over at the chip board, that's a piece, if true I would NEVER advocate for and an underhanded way to try and affect value (👎) to try and piece a set together. The value of a chip is what someone's willing to pay for it IMO (again maybe a topic for another thread)
 
RingMasterDuck said:
VERY TRUE!! There's usually no reverse cross over! As I have found myself content with all my sets (Too Many!) and pretty much in sets retirement I've found myself more and more interested in singles displays in my office and casino (LOL) Basement!

I am also very happy to see that there is some great communication between the sets and single guys and gals on this board, a true open minded desire to understand the ideas between the two methods of collecting versus the you're right Im wrong approach.

Disturbingly some one told me recently (and this isn't a topic change) that the sets crew over at PCF (✌️) have actively tried to trash the value of certain rare chips over at the chip board, that's a piece, if true I would NEVER advocate for and an underhanded way to try and affect value (👎) to try and piece a set together. The value of a chip is what someone's willing to pay for it IMO (again maybe a topic for another thread)
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and I have read the opposite on the c board, that all of the sets collectors are inflating the price of chips. So as an economist, I see some sets collectors driving down the price, others raising the price, so this cancels out and there is no effect...though I think we might agree that chips are going for much more than they were 3-4 years ago.
 
cmrheller said:
I think both our great. Singles are more for the higher end and rarer chips
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I would totally agree, and I think there in lies the “value” or appeal in the singles approach. Building playable sets obviously requires chips to be available in Qty. Were as the “appeal” for singles is rarity.

I appreciate singles, and particularly the historical aspect associated with it. I don’t have the knowledge and so end up just getting a few chips here and there I think are cool -lol.

For me, there’s just something about playing with chips that were actually used/played at some of these historical casinos.
 
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jhelik said:
and I have read the opposite on the c board, that all of the sets collectors are inflating the price of chips. So as an economist, I see some sets collectors driving down the price, others raising the price, so this cancels out and there is no effect...though I think we might agree that chips are going for much more than they were 3-4 years ago.
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That too is a whole other thread!! LOL!! I think in the sets community there has been 2 or 3 whirlwind collectors paying ridiculous amounts and inflated the prices, thereby killing the price (by Higher), then they fade into the sunset after getting all the good stuff at incredulous prices and everyone that was scavenging them up ti flip to those few buyers are left hanging, and rightfully so, that's what you get... There's a correction going on in the sets community as we type.... a bitterness toward each other. I saw it described somewhere that the site that was by itself in the world is eating itself , Hence the birth of PokerChipper. Keep it positive here is the motto! This is Nordstroms honey, not WalMart. :ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO:
 
I had a discussion with E. Just yesterday regarding some attitudes in both communities but I think, and I said this on another board, there is a small subculture in the sets community where some users believe that because they are piecing something together to build a set that all others must relinquish to them when that chip comes up.

Damn I gotta finish this rack, oh well I’m over a rack so might as well have an extra barrel, ahhhh shit, may as well have 2 racks….. really?? If a chip on the rare side that causes a problem 2 fold, 1st that damn rack you built, while quite the accomplishment now cost you $10,000 to put together!! And it’s worth $5000 (in sets). Better hope you’re keeping it forever!
2nd, you’re now taking a rare chip one by one off the singles market or at least increasing the price of them, making true that the sets folks are increasing the price of chips (rare) only to flood the market some day when they’re sick of that rack widening the divide between sets/singles.
As for sets folks going to the Chip Board to trash values of rare chips, I’m not sure how one does that and I looked and looked but never saw that happening there.
How people chip is how they chip. There is no right or wrong. I see (and understand) the singles
Folks refusing to sell a chip if they know it’s going into a set but a simple explanation as to why you don’t want to sell it to him/her would be a whole lot better than rudely telling them “I don’t sell to you sets guys” and blah. Blah. There’s things to be learned and understood between sets/singles and it would be great if both took the opportunity to do both!
And hey, sets folks, all the singles guys aren’t “80 yr old geezers”! Works both ways.
And singles folks, pray for more overpriced NAGB chips as that’ll keep ‘em of your rare singles!

Oh and just for the record, you’re not the only one putting a rack of something together so stop bitching if someone out bids you!
 
Singles, but I did make my own set from WI obsolete WI casino chips. Which I might as well add, was stolen, so I made another, which I gave away. And honest I thought I had a third, but it's "somewhere". Many things are "somewhere". I did a move to storage, then moved storage and had some things at the office, until I changed locations. And then from there and storage, I moved again. Still looking for a bunch of things like, and it's a running joke, the good kitchen knives and my electric stapler. So you can imagine if those are misplaced, the travel case with casino/poker chips, is less of a mystery as it could be buried, in storage, the back of the garage or just misplaced in the office.

My first chip, which was stupid, but it was a start. After I had lost about $200 I tried to take one chip and they said I couldn't. Well that told me, "Oh yeah, says who?" ;)
MGM Grand Reno 1984 as far as I can recall. I should have collected something that wasn't generic, but I didn't know better.

Favorite? That's so hard to say. There are so many. I won the pink $25, which makes it way up on my list.
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I'm a singles guy and have been duped a few times due to my inability to remember things I've already bought.
 
Okku said:
I originally started as a singles collector only. Then, I bought some TRKs in quantity and I can't stop now. So, I've mainly turned into a set collector, but still do buy singles here and there.

Just recently had a handful come in which were very nice! Here's one stand out one from that group :love:

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Good luck @JimmyR
 
RingMasterDuck said:
I had a discussion with E. Just yesterday regarding some attitudes in both communities but I think, and I said this on another board, there is a small subculture in the sets community where some users believe that because they are piecing something together to build a set that all others must relinquish to them when that chip comes up.

Damn I gotta finish this rack, oh well I’m over a rack so might as well have an extra barrel, ahhhh shit, may as well have 2 racks….. really?? If a chip on the rare side that causes a problem 2 fold, 1st that damn rack you built, while quite the accomplishment now cost you $10,000 to put together!! And it’s worth $5000 (in sets). Better hope you’re keeping it forever!
2nd, you’re now taking a rare chip one by one off the singles market or at least increasing the price of them, making true that the sets folks are increasing the price of chips (rare) only to flood the market some day when they’re sick of that rack widening the divide between sets/singles.
As for sets folks going to the Chip Board to trash values of rare chips, I’m not sure how one does that and I looked and looked but never saw that happening there.
How people chip is how they chip. There is no right or wrong. I see (and understand) the singles
Folks refusing to sell a chip if they know it’s going into a set but a simple explanation as to why you don’t want to sell it to him/her would be a whole lot better than rudely telling them “I don’t sell to you sets guys” and blah. Blah. There’s things to be learned and understood between sets/singles and it would be great if both took the opportunity to do both!
And hey, sets folks, all the singles guys aren’t “80 yr old geezers”! Works both ways.
And singles folks, pray for more overpriced NAGB chips as that’ll keep ‘em of your rare singles!

Oh and just for the record, you’re not the only one putting a rack of something together so stop bitching if someone out bids you!
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There are some very wise words here. And I would just add, on the singles side, that sometimes these 80 year olds have a habit of dying...especially if they have licked their leaded chips. Some of the price fluctuations are from rare chips that were locked up in collections being sold back into the market. Lesson: make friends with widows who have inherited, often reluctantly, some chips.
 
jhelik said:
There are some very wise words here. And I would just add, on the singles side, that sometimes these 80 year olds have a habit of dying...especially if they have licked their leaded chips. Some of the price fluctuations are from rare chips that were locked up in collections being sold back into the market. Lesson: make friends with widows who have inherited, often reluctantly, some chips.
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Is that why everyone's so nice to my wife???
 
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