James; Like Chuck Smorse has his regular subscribers for new issue Las Vegas chips ... Ricky Pushkin has his regular subscribers for Atlantic City new issues ... so don't be too discouraged if nobody took you up on your A.C. Golden Nugget chip offer. It takes years to build up a loyal customer/subscriber list... and weed out some of the deadbeats as Smorse and Pushkin will testify.

As for your reference to the last A.C. meeting where collectors only wanted to buy chips at face ... or trade .... this link would tend to discount that statement;
http://www.thechipboard.com/index.cgi/page/1/md/read/id/1102791/sbj/newest-addition-to-my-atlantic-city-collection/

I also witnessed some spirited bidding on quite a few auction lots at the meeting.

Just saying ...