Blue Chip Co. custom chips

[italianstang]

I know I have done a serious amount of bitching about Blue Chip and their personnel and their customer service and their chips over the last few months, and I am sure everyone is tired of hearing it, but I came across this picture on www.dice702.com (a site that sells chips) and it was too perfect not to show everyone.



The text/caption reads: "The chip on the left was made by Paulson and the chip on the right was made by Blue Chip Company. Both are 9 gram 39 millimeter chips. There is no difference in quality."

This is a wonderful picture because it points out just how flawed not just the chips themselves are, but how flawed the continued comparisons between Paulsons and Blue Chips are.

Above the picture is some text about how the Endy's owned Paulson, sold it, started Blue Chip, same quality, blah blah blah. But the picture really speaks for itself.

-The Paulson chips is 9.5 grams, the Blue Chip is 8.5, this may seem trivial and 1 gram certainly is not a lot of weight, but comparitively it is more than ten percent of the chip's weight, and you CAN tell the difference.

-The inlay on the Paulson looks uniform and centered and has a nice white border. The Blue Chip one looks slapped on, barely centered (they must have picked a good one) and has no border at all.

-The top hat and cane mold on the Paulson is deep, clear and easily recognizable. The mold on the Blue Chip chips is sketchy at best.

-The quality of the inlay itself is worse, the colors are not as deep, the font on "Las Vegas" looks worse, etc. Dave Endy told me that they (the Endy's) have been using the same inlay guy for 50 years. This simply can't be true unless the guy is super old and suddenly stopped knowing what he was doing.

-Finally, the appearance of texture on the outside of the Blue Chip chip looks crappy and cheap (and feels crappy too), the Paulson appears smooth and flat.

Once again I apologize for the constant whining about Blue Chip but I felt that I just needed to vent, again.

[niagarapoker]

Wow, a picture speaks a thousand words. I might not have noticed how shitty the chip on the right was if not for seeing it next to the chip on the left. They should probably take that off their site [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

[TabascoJRC]

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-The Paulson chips is 9.5 grams, the Blue Chip is 8.5, this may seem trivial and 1 gram certainly is not a lot of weight, but comparitively it is more than ten percent of the chip's weight, and you CAN tell the difference.

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Did you weigh a strstosphere chip, cuz i thought they deliberately make their home chips lighter. So it could be possible that their casino chips do weigh the same as the Paulsons. However that doesn't make up for all the other flaws you have listed.

[warewulf]

I agree on all things mentioned. Plus, there's something about the purple edge spot or something around it that I just can't put my finger on -- It looks somewhat lopsided. I don't know if it's the inlay that is messed up, off center, or if the edge spot itself is somewhat inconsistent. I had seen that comparison on his site before and did notice that there was a very clear difference. To me it seems like the usual comparison of a retail product -- Real vs. Imitation. The real is always better. The imitation is always similar on first glance, but the more you look at it, the more you want the real one.

Back to chips -- To me Blue Chip is no doubt the closest LOOKING chip to a Paulson. That however is where the similarity stops. Everything else -- weight, feel, and sound are totally off. I think TR King and Chipco are the most consistent in all 4 areas. I got TR King, Kings Crown samples recently. The more I look at them the more I want to get customs done by them.

warewulf

[dakine]

Hey Slang, you ever got your order filled? [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

[italianstang]

Yeah I finally got my order, I was 60% happy with it.

[timmer]

Yeah they suck big time And I know chips pretty good as I am part of a design group that does the barge chips every year.

I bought paulsons CDIC's off e bay for >2x as much rather than add these crappy chips to my set.

bcc-timmer