Same here...I have been told “No” for years. I used to go to this place once or twice a month when visiting family. Some of the managers knew I collected chips and never directed me toward the Chinese New Years chips.
Today I was talking to a manager...and he says...oh yeah...they got Chinese chips at the cage. Then he says “ I remember you. You are the chip collector.” He tells me to follow him into a back hallway and meet up with a security guard and we walk to an office. (I’m guessing it was his office) He rummages in a desk and pulls out 3 chips and gives them to me. I was in shock...I actually couldn’t read them too well because I wasn’t wearing my glasses, but knew they we special. They are oversized.
What is baffling to me is I talk to this guy almost every time I go there...and he has never mentioned any of these chips until today.

If you want to save yourself a trip...I have an extra Rat chip. No dupes of the others. I don’t even know if there are anymore others. I don’t think they would be destroyed....maybe just put away in a vault...like those mysterious $4 drop chips at Stones gambling hall. They don’t use them anymore, yet can’t let any out of their site. Most of the managers didn’t believe they even had any...but the cage manager said they did.