Buying Poker Supplies Now Or In The Near Future? READ THIS!
This is a little piece of advice for anyone looking for poker suppllies and my story.
Just got into poker not that long ago compared to most of this forum and found the need/want for some poker supplies to be able to play with friends etc. Found the retail stores that offered supplies were way over priced and the product wasnt always that great. Looked at ebay and gotted burned either with outrageous shipping charges or product was not as advertised, either way a very bad experience and expensive at the end of the day.
Now for the good part of my story. Recently found myself involved in getting together a free holdem event to take place during a bigger charity event and in the need of some supplies /prizes and have done business in the past week with not one but two different forum members. Unfortunately my past experience and the world in general led me to expect very little, but this time I was surpised and genuinely uplifted to find that the forum members I delt with were honest, fair, generous and on top of all that had great prices!
So my advice to anyone looking for supplies is to check the advertising section of the forum, if you dont see what your looking for post it and I'm sure someone can help you. Where the internet is a big world this forum seems to me to be a big comminity with small community values of honesty and reliability!
My personal thanks to Joe from Jelaltd and Dave from Witchdoctorpoker.
The event isnt for 2 more weeks but once it happens I hope to post some pics of people enjoying poker wearing Witchdoctor tshirts and playing on table tops from Jelaltd, thnaks again guys!
Just got into poker not that long ago compared to most of this forum and found the need/want for some poker supplies to be able to play with friends etc. Found the retail stores that offered supplies were way over priced and the product wasnt always that great. Looked at ebay and gotted burned either with outrageous shipping charges or product was not as advertised, either way a very bad experience and expensive at the end of the day.
Now for the good part of my story. Recently found myself involved in getting together a free holdem event to take place during a bigger charity event and in the need of some supplies /prizes and have done business in the past week with not one but two different forum members. Unfortunately my past experience and the world in general led me to expect very little, but this time I was surpised and genuinely uplifted to find that the forum members I delt with were honest, fair, generous and on top of all that had great prices!
So my advice to anyone looking for supplies is to check the advertising section of the forum, if you dont see what your looking for post it and I'm sure someone can help you. Where the internet is a big world this forum seems to me to be a big comminity with small community values of honesty and reliability!
My personal thanks to Joe from Jelaltd and Dave from Witchdoctorpoker.
The event isnt for 2 more weeks but once it happens I hope to post some pics of people enjoying poker wearing Witchdoctor tshirts and playing on table tops from Jelaltd, thnaks again guys!
Comments
Retailer #1 (GW) My winning bid was US $15.50. I drove out to Mississauga and the cost with taxes, pick-up charge, US to Can conversion was = $45.00 If I wanted it delivered it would have cost me $78.
Retailer #2 (PCD) My winning bid was $41. Again I drive out to Mississauga and the cost with taxes, and pick-up charge was $71.15. If I wanted it delivered it would have cost me $89.
In both cases the sets themselves were fine, but the experience leaves something to be desired.
Now I buy the sets from Costco, same set, virtually same price ($44.99 for 500 11.5 gram composite, with aluminum case and dice, etc... still don't know why they give dice with poker chips
Scott