Hi :-)
I can understand your concern

If you were in Las Vegas, at The Vacation Village, when it was open for
business, you could get it for $ 1.00.
Of course this is true of almost any coin or chip, even the ancients
got them for face value when they were around, now they cost a little
more though.

This chip was first used in October 2001 and was only available for 2-3
months when the casino suddenly closed on January 6th 2002.

Each casino has chips that are unique to only it, even the chains have
a slightly different design for each property, and this design cannot
and will not be issued to any other casino, these chips are hard to get
and will get harder to get.

There are likely a lot of them with wear, chips, cracks, dirt, etc
still lying around, there are not so many "Near Mint" available.

I was only able to get about 30 of them, and I am local and tried very
hard to get more of this quality. Many of the folks purchasing chips
took what they could get, mostly used table chips, not pristine near mint
chips.

I don't know your "chip experts" but I refer you to:

http://www.casino-chip.com/scans_vegas.html

where you will find a great collection of Las Vegas Chips, including
this one

You might also notice that two other bidders offered $ 25.00 and $
29.00 for this chip. Click on "bid history."

I have been selling chips and Casino Coins for years and have not had
one complaint on them, check my feedback
Early on I had a couple of complaints on sunglasses, of all things. I
quit dealing with this source.

Incidentally, I could only get ONE of the Saint Patrick $ 5.00 chips,
which is also on sale at this time

Frank -