I first saw mention of the club from Greg Susong's Chip Guide website. Being an old coin collector it made it easy to slip into chip collecting. I got Greg a great many roulettes from the Indiana casinos near Cincinnati. I'd send him roulettes and he'd send me chips from all over the world in trade. He gave me the names of other collectors. Gene Trimble, Paul Bender, Jim Steffner were some of my first contacts. They were all very kind to a new collector. I hung around for maybe five years before I actually joined the club. I'm not much of a joiner. I have met some great people in the Club. Honestly though, If the club disappeared tomorrow, I would still collect chips as much as ever. When I die there will be one hell of a garage sale.