People collect casino chips wtf?

[luckyjimm]

Just found some sites to do with collecting casino chips. When I was younger I collected all kinds of stuff - stamps, coins, football stickers, Garbage Pail Kids - so I do really understand the satisfaction of tracking stuff down, building a collection, cataloguing it. But this could be an expensive hobby! Still, I can see how being a trader could be profitable:

1 Buy chip for $5
2 Sell chip to collector for $7.50
3 ???
4 Profit

http://www.marlowcasinochips.com/las...o/Bellagio.htm

http://www.callzia.com/dghome/acchips/ac.htm

[luckyjimm]

I guess it's the same as collecting stamps which could still be used for purpose. BUT a stamp is more likely to be worth more to a collector than its face value than a casino chip would be.

[luckyjimm]

By the way mods, do move this thread if it should be in B+M.

[JOEL_]

luckjimm,

What does railtard mean?

[luckyjimm]

A retarded railbird

[LuckyTxGuy]

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I guess it's the same as collecting stamps which could still be used for purpose. BUT a stamp is more likely to be worth more to a collector than its face value than a casino chip would be.

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Collecting things, IMO, shouldn't really be all about the money, although for alot of people that is what it is about. Some people collect salt shakers that look like chickens...just because they might not be worth alot in the future doesn't make it a bad hobby.

I collect $1 chips from every poker room I play in and my buddies bring me a $1 chip when they play in a room somewhere that I haven't. I do the same for them. Pretty neat to look at all the different $1 chips. And it has nothing to do with hoping the chips value is ever more than $1.

[kevbo]

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Collecting things, IMO, shouldn't really be all about the money, although for alot of people that is what it is about.

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Exactly...It's not about the money for me either - that's probably why I only get $1 chips. Hobby's for me are about having fun, not too worried about the money.

It will be Kinda neat though to see what my Stardust chip is worth someday since they leveled the place. Definitely a neat chip to have.

[PITTM]

i just like chips in general. i post on chiptalk.net sometimes. I only really take chips I like. For example, i took a bay101 chip because i think Bud Jones makes sick chips. On the other hand, i think Paulsons are just retardedly overrated and am kinda meh on them as they are EVERYWHERE. I have a replica set of the 2006 wsop chips and we use them in my homegame and everyone always comments on how awesome they are. best wsop chip ever imo.

[Paul Levy]

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But this could be an expensive hobby! Still, I can see how being a trader could be profitable:

1 Buy chip for $5


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Try collecting $1 chips (like I do) instead of $5 and you're instantly saving 80%. Amazing, isn't it?