I have a question for all you chip experts out there that I hope you can answer.

I purchased 25 $5 and 15 $25 Table Mountain Casino prototype chips from an ebay seller that I received today. They looked fine at first glance, but when stacked I could see immediately that something was awry.

5 of the $25s and 3 of the $5s are either warped or defective on the inlay. They don't stack at all with the others and in fact wobble when attempting to do so. The inlays actually feel loose on these 8 chips when squeezed in the center while the others do not.

Has anybody experience this kind of thing before on these chips or any others? I've got a bunch of the $1 TM prototype chips that I obtained from Holdempokerchips.com that are just fine. Since these chips were never used in the actual casino and purportedly have seen no use at all I'm guessing some kind of manufacturing defect.

The seller has said they will replace the defective chips, so that is not the issue. I'm just curious about the problem.

I've posted a picture just to make sure you all would know which chips I'm referring to, but the problem isn't something that can actually be seen, but rather is noticable when felt. Sorry for the weird overlay on the scan, but I'm just getting familiarized with Photoshop and kind of suck at it right now.

Thank you for any information,
Andi