Who we are: Dave and Debbie Harber from Las Vegas, NV.

Here's how to reach us:

By email: Click Here

By Phone: Toll-free at 800-668-CHIP (2447). Our local 702 area code number is 877-0460. We generally answer our phone from 9 AM to 9 PM every day but Sunday. Leave us a message if we're not there. We do return our calls.

By Fax: Toll-free at 800-466-5317

By Mail: 1421 N., Jones Blvd., #117 Las Vegas, NV 89108

How we got involved with chips in the first place:

When we moved to Las Vegas back in 1985 we started saving a $1 chip or $1 token from each casino we visited. Like many collectors we thought we were the only ones in the world to save these.

While our friends vacationed in Hawaii or San Diego we spent our vacation in little Nevada towns like Ely, Wendover and Winnemucca. In 1995 I took a class on the Internet and thought it would be a neat place to display my collection.

About that time I stumbled onto the "organized part" of the chip collecting hobby and began corresponding on the CompuServe chip forum. Since I lived in Vegas other forum members began asking me to pick up chips for them. With the combination of the Internet class and this group of forum members needing chips, Cheques in the Mail, Inc. was born. I never in my wildest thoughts would have believed that someday I'd be able to quit my job, Debbie quit hers and we'd be able to enjoy our hobby on a full time basis. We're definitely not getting rich selling chips but we are able to work from home, call our own shots and raise our daughter together.

How we got involved with customized chips:

Back in '98 our daughter was about to be born. We were in a stationary store pondering over which birth announcement we should purchase and send out to our family and friends. Then it hit me like a ton of bricks! What if we had a casino chip made to annouce her birth? After all, selling casino chips was our livlihood so it seemed like the perfect announcement.

There are three major companies that manufacture chips so I chose one and presented my idea to the president. He loved it and gave me a nice price break on the artwork, production costs and most importantly allowed me to order a smaller quantity than a typical casino order.

We made 402 of them. Why 402 you ask? Our daughter Alexi was born on April 2nd (04/02). We gave them out to just about everyone we could think of including 200 of our best chip collector customers.

They went over great! In fact many people asked if we could have a chip made for them too. I went back to the company and asked if I could keep the ball rolling and make chips for our friends and customers. They agreed.

Over the next three years from word of mouth with absolutely no advertising we made chips for people that ranged from business card chips, to retirement party chips to wedding announcements. Everyone that had a chip made had great results to report.

Hmmm... maybe there's something to this customized casino chip idea we thought...

Our first commercial custom chip venture went up in November of 2001, a site called WeddingChips.com. We targeted couples getting married in Las Vegas to give the chips out as wedding favors. There are 125,000 weddings in Las Vegas each year and the city has been dubbed the "Wedding Capitol of the World". With Vegas also being the "Gaming Capital of the World" we believed our chips made the "Perfect Las Vegas Wedding Favor".

It wasn't long before these customized wedding chips sales surpassed the collectible casino chips we were selling on the secondary market to chip collectors. Not only that, we felt blessed that we were providing a product that was just so appreciated by the bridal couples and their guests. Our customers praised both our product and the way that we treated them.

In September of 2003 we noticed that poker was really starting to take off. It was on television all the time and we realized that casino chips that commemorated poker players on them were starting to sell much better than they had in the past. At the urging of a friend we launched HomePokerChips.com with four stock artworks and a hope that we'd sell a set or two. Right out of the gate the results were staggering. In fact we got so busy that we needed to close the wedding chip part of our business down. I even needed to take on a partner to handle the day to day business of our lasvegas-chips.com site which offered collectible chips.

If you have any questions, concerns or issues please do not hesitate to give us a call or shoot us out an email. Being seasoned business owners we know a thing or two about providing excellent customer service. But perhaps you'll find out that for yourself soon enough!