John, I feel your pain. The only way you are going to free yourself from this anguish is to be rid of the worthless small round devices you have been deceived into hoarding. All I can do is to offer my services as an empath. Put all of your non-limited LEs and incommemorate commemoratives in a plain brown box, write my address on the outside, and give it to your nearest postal worker. He'll know what to do with it.

On a more serious note, LE and Commemorative are two different terms. Most Commemorative chips I know of are also claimed to be LE. However, Hard Rock for example issued a Commemorative as their house chip. Commemorative simply refers to the content of the artwork. Nothing else. Every art critic can judge for himself what a chip commemorates. LE is another matter. If a casino puts LE with a number on a chip, I expect that to be a contract, a promise. I know of no laws by which we can enforce that contract. However, if I catch a casino breaking it's promise, I have the option of never collecting their chips again. I would feel it entirely justified to spread the word throughout the collecting community that the casino has broken that promise.

However, simply saying LE on a chip, with no number, is not a contract, it's a handshake. It's an advertising gimmick, a used car salesman trick. Would you buy a used car on a handshake? Depends on the dealer. You collect them for the artwork, or you don't.