Prices and availability of good obsolete chips.

....as it looks now, given the life of this hobby as an organized hobby, the market in general is getting soft for many of the rarer obsolete chips simply because those that want them have already found them. Nobody is putting $5000 chips on eBay, because they know who needs one, and they know that person doesn't want to pay that much for it, so individual deals are more the norm than sky-rocketing values that has happened in the last ten years.

Prices and availability of LE's in general.

....too many of them over all, but that is just a personal opinion. Given that this is happening in a free market economy, if they don't sell, it won't take long for the issues to slowdown.

Both are good for new collectors and the Club. The infusion of new collectors from people that had only collected racing stuff before they found racing related chips can fuel enough curiosity in specialized casino chip collecting. When a new collector gets serious about a specific area, the rarer stuff will become more desirable as the collector starts to reach the point of only missing a few chips to have a complete collection in their area of specialization. Cross collecting, people who were looking for something other than chips, has been fueled by the rash of LE's over the last couple years. IF the market gets saturated, it will correct itself. Don't buy a stack of a new chip unless you have 16 of them already sold.

My thoughts,
Bob