There will be chip sales as more are retiring - if the trend continues as more and cheaper chips are coming to the board: below face value and we all know those chips were not picked at the casinos, some maybe and I suspect most of them were from "chip service", for instance in my case $5.00 chips I paid $8 to $8.50, sold at $5 or below cost is a lost.

The new collectors coming in now are lucky for there are more and more chips and are a lot cheaper.

I am sure that many chippers have asked is this all there is in chipping, collecting with plenty of holes and then downloading at a sacrifice - why did I started this. For whatever reasons they started collecting - I for one has lost values in my collection.

I am thankful that I stopped collecting outside the $2.50. Early on I was told to collect only the Nevada chips but ended up collecting other states.

Right now I have my hands full of snappers from outside the USA.

The only "finds" to have are from the retirees.

There are more talks which is cheaper but also costly "giveaway or gifts" to new recruits which I stop.