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BAY 101 SHOW
REPORT
"COME ONE...COME ALL...
BUT THEY DIDN'T..."
This weekend we enjoyed the large and luxurious BAY 101 Club in San Jose, California. It's a very impressive card club with lots of tables and lots of people...unfortunately not a lot of them were buying from our Casino Collectibles Show in the private, glass etched room in the center of the club as you walk through the front doors.
As this was our (my wife, Rosie and my) first visit to this club, we were very impressed with how beautiful the building was and also how large it was. An exquisite fountain adorns the front center of the outside entrance with uplifted dolphins being showered by a few powerful water pumps sitting inside a large basin and surrounded by 8 or 10 huge colorful and fragrant flower pots. The club was very clean and had a deli and a separate restaurant...and of course LOTS of poker tables!
A large group of the card dealers and other club employees walked through our show room numerous times checking out the variety of casino collectibles at each of the 11 dealer's tables. Some bought some chips and things here and there, but it was more out of curiosity then "hunting" that brought them in. There were also quite a few of the card players that came through to see what all the tables were about.
The people from the club couldn't be nicer and the "War Wonton Soup" from the restaurant was definately the meal of choice among some of the dealers. Rosie and I had a large bowl each of the two days for lunch.
The Nor-Cal-Nev Casino Collectibles Club had a get-together at Raulin's & Bruce's hotel suite Saturday night where our club supplied pizza, beer and soda for the 9 members that came to check out the Show. I'm sure we added at least a couple of new members to our club as I had handed out at least 4 applications and I know that Raulin also signed up at least one new member as well as taking numberous applications. Pizza, beer and chips...what more could one ask?
Sunday's show day a bit slower than Saturday...(possible? Yes.) And some vendors started packing up around 11 am. Most of the rest of the dealers had left by 2 pm, 3 hours shy of the 5 pm scheduled show end time.
Although there wasn't much money to be made...(at least for TopShelfChips...) we had a very pleasant experience and enjoyed the club as well as the hotel next store...not to mention the great interaction betweeen dealers!
Will there be another show there next year?...I don't know. Will TopShelfChips be there? Probably!
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Sometimes this stuff is just hard to get!
But it's back and it's cheaper (as I didn't have to pay to ship the 25 LB case)!
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Don't forget about the
15th Annual
Casino Chip and Gaming Token Collectors Club
Convention and Show
at the Riviera Hotel & Casino
Starting Thursday June 18th through Saturday June 21st, 2008
TopShelfChips.com will have a table set up and I hope you'll come by to check us out!
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more info to come...
Website Updates
For those very observant chip collectors out there, (and basically that's the definition of a chip collector...very observant), I've been updating my website weekly since shortly after the beginning of the New Year.
It had been mentioned to me by several of you that you would like to see the site updated more frequently. Therefore, as I have been over the past several weeks, I will be updating TopShelfChips with new additional chips to the chip database as well as updating the "Home Page" with whatever information might be new or upcoming. I am trying to update the site as often as I can throughout each month. Of course there may be times when I am unable to due to family or other work related obligations, (yes, I have an actual job too) but will work hard to keep things as up to date as possible.
If you don't see any obvious changes to the main Home page on certain weeks, it may simply mean that I have nothing to report.
But I will be trying to add more chips as often as I can.
I appreciate all the input from the viewers and customers out there and I will continue to try respond to as many requests as possible.
Thanks again for coming to TopShelfChips.com!
LAST UPDATE 4/27/2008
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CLICK HEREto view our TV Ad from our Nor Cal Casino Collectibles Show back on June 1st 2007.
Cigar Aficionado put out an article in their June 1998 issue pertaining to Casino Chip collecting. The article, "Chips Off The Old Block", written by Barry Rosenberg, talks about the hobby of "chipping" and the fun, profits and history involved. In his sub-title he says...
"Collectors Turn to Casino Chips, Seeking Fun, Profit and a Link to Gambling History Through These Fascinating and Colorful Pieces of Clay and Plastic That Don't Lose Their Value Even After They Leave the Gaming Table."
For those looking for more information on chip collecting or just looking for an interesting article about those of us who do collect...here's a great read!
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“TopShelfChips.com” is a site dedicated to the Connoisseur of high-end chips. My definition of a “high-end chip” is simply any Casino Chip that has a value of $100 or more. Although the quality and condition of a chip is very important, having a rare, hard to find chip that may not be in the best of condition is also important (at least to me).
Starting out there will be a variety of different casino chips from all sorts of locations around Nevada. I am starting this site mainly focusing on Nevada (Las Vegas, Lake Tahoe, Reno and small town) chips because these are the chips that currently hold the most interest for me. Expanding the site into outside of Nevada is one of our goals. (As I start taking consignments, locations will also expand the site). I will also help to provide the Customer with chip supplies, books and information as well as other things that I may find interesting.
As you will see as you “surf” through “TopShelfChips.com”, you will find many interesting, valuable and sometimes even rare chips that hopefully will be one of the Dream chips you have been looking for to help you get closer to completing one of your Casino, Denomination, Mold or Location collections.
Besides trying to provide rare and valuable chips, my other high priority goal is to provide “Superior Customer Service” in the best way I know how! If a Customer doesn’t have an enjoyable and satisfying experience when they shop then they may not return. As I believe, Customer Service is the best way for you, the Customer, to get to know me better.
One of our other goals is to help provide an arena for those of you that may have rare and/or valuable chips that you’d like to sell. We will be taking “Consignments” as our business gets underway. Please refer to the “Consignment Page” for further information.
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Sincerely,
David Takach
