I am flabbergasted at the nit picking in the two recent posts in this thread.
In some respects I don’t know what the purpose was. I write about important concerns of the chip collecting community and ways its interests can be protected, and get replies about what FOOLISH collectors do and buy. I think the committee I propose would be useful to the most ADVANCED collectors in many ways:

* shouldn’t advanced collectors be concerned if, for example, Resorts International decides to have Paulson reissue all the original issue chips? Or take them out of the vaults, if they are allowed to be stored in vaults? Or if a licensed chip manufacturer reproduces obsolete chips from defunct casinos? I think the Club can and should try to influence regulations affecting those things. After all, both the casinos and their chip manufacturers are licensed.
* shouldn’t the club members be concerned if a business with no connection to the casino industry and its regulations, decides to reproduce obsolete casino chips and makes them so “good” that a chemist would be needed to tell the real from the fake? Wouldn’t you like to see the Club cooperate with other groups pushing to make this a crime?
* don’t you want to know what casinos and chip manufacturers can and can not do under present regulations? Don’t you want to know what has been destroyed from chip inventories?
* wouldn’t you like to know how much of your collection can be legally reproduced?
* aren't you afraid that our hobby might join others that were flooded with reproductions so good, that droves of collectors left the hobby, afraid of buying fakes?