Crystal Oyster Poker Chips-Not Impressed, HELP!

[grandgnu]

I just received an 8-chip sample pack from www.holdempokerchips.com

I'm used to the 11.5 gram Dice Chips. I have a set of 1500 of those cheapies, but eventually want to replace them with something of a higher quality.

I figured I'd be looking at spending close to a buck per chip to get a nice quality set of chips. But something about these chips just doesn't do it for me. I can't quite put my finger on it though.

I mean, I love how they stick together so you can make larger stacks (the dice chips I have are slicker and prone to topple over in larger stacks)

I've played around shuffling these chips, and it works just fine. The sound is ok. But something about the feel of the chips, it just doesn't work for me. I've heard you need to "break-in" new chips like this, maybe I just need to play with them for awhile so that their texture will appeal to me more?

I was also thinking of getting a sample pack of the James Bond Chips, they look pretty nice and I like the edge spots on them.

Is there a difference in getting a sample of these type of chips from one site to the next? If I were to get the Crystal Oysters or James Bond from another website, would I notice any difference in them?

Is there a site you'd recommend for getting samples? Also, is there a specific chip that people recommend that is nice quality? I'm looking for chips that will be easy to stack, just like in the casino tournaments, and obviously have the nice clickity-click sound when shuffled.

And nice looking edge spots are important, as well as colors that stand out from one another (i.e. if I have 25, 100 and 500 value chips in the tournament they don't blend in with one another and make it difficult for players to figure things out)