Jeff,
I had a kinda the same problem. But with silver Strikes and to buy not sell.

I went to Tunica, Mississippi in 2003 looking for strikes. I went to all the casino's there, asking at the cage. If they had any strikes to sell. Most of them looked and didn't have any. Although I did pick up 1, from 1 casino.

But when I got to the Sheraton and Sam's Town. I was told that they couldn't sell any. Because of rhe Mississippi Gaming comission said they couldn't. Sam's Town even admitted to me that they have "quite a few stikes". I tried explaining to the cage supervisers. That I had bought 1 in Mississippi within the last few days. They both stuck to their stories. The Sam's Town Cage superviser was even real snotty and pretty rude from the beginning.

The more I thought about it. The more I decided this was not right. And I decided to check into it. So I went to the Mississippi Gaming Board office in Tunica, Miss. I explained the situation to the agent there. The agent gave me the name of the person to talk to. Who handled that part of the gaming enforcement. I talked to him him, and heard back from him. Even thought he said he HAD NOT called. I went back to Sam's Town and the same cage superviser was real NICE this time. Even had silver strikes piled up on her desk. In the back corner of the cage. And sold me all the sliver strikes I wanted to buy. The Sheraton still didnot have any. The Cage COMPTROLLER as she called herself. Came out personally to tell me this.
Dan