EO Sobrietary Chip Report, Tom B., 5/11/2008:

The cost of the plastic chips with is $0.37 per chip
(plus about 8 cents per chip S&H) - call 'em 50 cents
per chip, same as the aluminum from central office. 

I'd like to propose that we order 100 plastic 24 hour
chips (our current need) and "see what happens" in
terms of folks' issues with plastic vs. clay.   I will
also make some suggestions to our supplier who seemed
interested in a possible new clay chip supplier for
herself (i.e. maybe she'll reduce that overhead).

Alternate Clay chip quote is $0.67 but note that they
also say "low run < 700 of $10 fee" and "custom label
setup fee of $40" - each of our 12 chips (24 hour to
11 month) would entail the $40 fee plus the $10 fee so
for any of our 12 chip "designs" we're at $50 before
we even order one chip of any "design" (24hours is a
different "design" than 4 months).  This is typical of
what I've been finding.

We typically order about 100 chips per 1-2 months.  On
average these are typically about 50 of the 24 hour
chips and 50 of various monthly denominations (more of
30 day decreasing to the 11 months as you'd expect). 
E.g. one month I'd order 60 of the 24-hour, 20 of the
30 day and 20 of the 4 month, one or two months later
it might be 40 24-hour, and 20 each of 3 other chips)
This is all "back of the envelope" numbers.  I could
go through all my records and be more specific if you
all would like.

For comparison we can buy the aluminum chips from
Central Office for 50 cents each and the Bronze cost
us $1.50 each.

I don't mind continuing as chip coordinator for longer
than my original commitment, but also don't mind
stepping aside to allow others to serve.