Do y'all call them "charms" now? We called them dangles.

That pin is beautiful! I just hope it goes to an ADPi!

honeychile

We call them dangles in my chapter...

Checked on ebay a few minutes ago...there are two pins up for sale right now. One looks to be a part of a collection, and the other I think is being sold by someone who just sold another one within the past week or two...this is so distressing, but a good reminder of how much the pin means to me!

Wow, polarpi - what a beautiful way to think about the pin! :) You've inspired me!

L&L,
honeychile

Well, I just think about the billions of women out there, and how few of them will actually wear the ADPi badge...that's what helps me to remember to cherish it and what history it has behind it!

L&L,
Jennie

This is getting serious...one of our sisters found an ALPHA pin up for sale on ebay. Here's the link:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...category=11145
I can't believe this...and tyoregon has the highest bid at the moment, so I'm hoping a sister can beat him out in the last second!

Jen, thank you for pointing it out! I see an EO officer has bid on it; I've put in on my watch list and I'll bid on the last day (if I can afford it!).

What really irks me is the seller's name: betapifiji. This person is probably a greek, and still profits from this. Shame on him/her!!

*glowering*
honeychile

FYI: Since reading Jen's above post, I checked ebay again. I didn't see much under Alpha Delta Pi, but under "Collectibles:Historical Memorabilia: Fraternal Groups:Fraternity, Sorority " I found pins etc from all sorts of fraternities & sororities. There are dozens of pledge pins from many GLOs, as well as various other pins. I did notice an "Alpha Delta Phi" pin, and found it intriguing - if no one had already bid on it, I could have been tempted.

Guess who is high bidder on more than 5 different sorority pins (that I noticed)?! If you read the first post in this thread, you know the answer! So much for the theory that "My wife/daughter/aunt/niece/grandmother etc was an (insert your GLO here)!

I'm still looking...

L&L,
honeychile

You can find the Alpha pin if you do a search as ADPi Sorority Pledge Pin, and there is still one badge in the regular "Alpha Delta Pi" search. I put both of them on my watch list. In order for the highest bidder to have a relative of some sort as a (Insert GLO), he'd have to have a LOT of relatives!!!

L&L,
Jennie

TyOregon
 

Hey Sisters - bad news. TyOregon won the Alpha badge. If you check out other boards about their badges, you will see that he claims he has relatives in the sorority - the most common story is that his daughter is a member of X sorority. It does appear that he may have a daughter that is a KD and he buys badges for her. Either way, he runs up the price on a number of badges so if you see him bidding, bid late - he apparently doesn't have any cash flow problems. It also doesn't do any good to write to him and ask him not to bid. Anyway, just thought I would pass that information along.

I have a question though, as a "pledge pin" that has to be given back to the sorority - can't EO do something about that pin. Noone can buy them from the Sorority so the pin must have been "Taken" from them. Just a thought.

Oh, filing a claim for receiving stolen property would be such justice!! :D I had heard that he had Alpha Phi daughters - frankly, I don't believe 1/10th of it. The link I started out with is from the Alpha Phi thread; they say he's an attorney with deep pockets. I'm glad he paid as much as he did for it!!

Interestingly, my pledge class was the largest on campus when I pledged, so our Alumnae Association bought our pledge pins for us. I still have mine, in a little frame that they made for each of us. Alumnae can be cool at times! :)

L&L,
honeychile

When I read the title of this thread, I wasn't quite expecting what I read. After reading Alpha Phi's thread and completely reading all posts on ours, I'm pissed!!! I don't even think I can describe how mad I am. My parents paid for my pin and it means so much to me because they really didn't support me joining ADPi, but they bought my pin. I treasure my pin and I look foward to the day when I have a daughter and can pass it on to her. It really irks me that this guy is doing this to us, Alpha Phi and god knows how many other sororities. I wish there was a way for all of us, all greeks, to band together and stop the sell of our pins on ebay to people who aren't even greek and let alone a member or the particular sorority/fraternity.
I'm sorry if I offended anyone. This just really frustrates me.

Trust me, you're not offending any of us! We all feel very strongly about the Diamond, and guys like that are simply childish in their desire to make people pay more than they really should. If he were a collector of one each, never wore them, and didn't lie about his affiliations, I might be more tolerant. Maybe.

honeychile

I doubt I'd be more tolerant....there's really no reason to bid on the pins if you're not going to use them...how many people have stuff lyin garound just because they "wanted it" rather than they "needed it"??? Just my honest opinion, but I wish the selling of any GLO pins would not occur on ebay. Grr....

Honey ~ Here is your original thread on the Guardians of the Diamond.

Just a nice little bump!