The reviews on chiptalk are well done, but I agree that a lot of those guys like poker chips a little too much. The thing that annoyed me was how so many of the chips with good reviews are either completely unavailable or sold out of most colors. I settled on Nexgen Lucky Bees (guess why) but then discovered that half the colors are unavailable. So I said to hell with it and ordered Super Diamonds instead, they were so cheap that I bought 1200. I ordered custom labels from slamdunkimports and am very satisfied. Between the chips, racks, labels and shipping I spent about $160. The only downside was attaching all those labels (about 30 min. per rack).