"Everytime that I was Downtown, I would ALWAYS stop in to see if the cage had any and they usually would in varying degrees of use. The last few times, no luck though..."
I would always ask the Golden Gate for old chips and they would always show me the same box with chips beat to crap. One day I found two almost new metal center 25 dollar chips in the box. I have no idea how they got in there as I know they previously never were.
Today most cage personal know what good chips are and they would never be sold to anyone who just asks.
Barry