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I swear, tonight is crazy, this is the fourth badge I've found on ebay. thought you should know!

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Thanks Sarah.

Damn I wish it had the chapter name on it! It's such a great old pin!!! I wish Int'l would buy these so these stupid collectors would leave them alone. :mad:

I think if Int'l had something like that going on, collector's would be on the look out for A-Phi pins because they know that they will be bought back, no matter what. Sellers would get friends to vote on the badge to raise the price because they know that Int'l would continue to bid to win the badge. If ever A-Phi decided to start buying all badges off of ebay, I hope it is kept a secret, as to keep what I mentioned above from happening. Of course, if we had something like that, we would be rescuing all the badges, which is definitely a good thing, but it isn't something everybody should know about.

You ladies are more than welcome. I always try to keep a look out for pins or valuable items and let the groups in on them. Such a shame that these ladies don't leave things in their wills about what should happen to their badges.



As for this one and the ladies wondering what chapter it's from.. could it be Kappa?


The seller says that the engraving says "Elise P./ Furst K
and it looks like, under the .. damn what is that thing called.. well under the THING, it looks like a giant K?

I just checked the Alumnae site and Elise P. Furst is our member's name and Kappa is the chapter name. The Kappa chapter is our closed chapter at Stanford University.

Elise was a member of the class of 1916, unfortunately, she is now a member of the silent chapter.

If you check this guy's past seller history, he seems to specialize in badges. It just upsets me that he's making a killing on things that belong to someone else. :(

tyoregon is a MAJOR collector. I hope an APhi saves it!!

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We shall NOT DISCUSS tyoregon and his obsession with pins - he needs to be outbid...I WILL try and bid on it when the time is right. And then it will go back to an A-Phi.

Just don't outbid another A Phi. I was the highest bidder on this item for a while and was planning on repurchasing it to donate to the office.

LD

PS: tyoregon's a phi purchases go to his daughter who is an alpha phi. he does not keep them himself.

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This man's daughter DOES have a stipulation in her will that upon her death her collection will go back to A-Phi. She has been to EO and shown the collection to the appropriate people - lives outside of Chicago....She has been given MANY unique pieces from her father...And I promise not to outbid an A-Phi...

We've discussed this man before.

And, I think what is most frustrating is that there are other people -- other Alpha Phis! -- who would like to own something unique too.

He seemingly has enough money to outbid just about everyone. I can certainly understand our Alpha Phi sisters' frustration with him.

He had, a long time ago, e-mailed me about this very thing (the money issue and having other Alpha Phi's own a part of their heritage and that so many cannot afford his bids)...and it was NOT a very nice e-mail either:( . I was insulted and threatened over this issue by him. Sad to say the least. Enough said on the subject.

We shall see what happens.

I tried to get this badge, but my bid didn't get through for some reason and then time ran out...I was sooooo disappointed. I felt terrible...At least 'his' daughter will get it and she's an A-Phi...:confused:

Tyoregon is from what i here a wealthy attorney in Washington state and furthermore from what i hear he is not a very nice man to anyone who emails him because he gets very hateful emails from various other sisters and GLO's. At least if EO knows about his daughter and the stipulation in her will that these pins will eventually come back home one day that should be somewhat comforting, but what i find disheartingly his this man and is actions and his attitude about not sharing if one sister wanted to purchase and bid on a pin no matter if his daughter and his own mother are Alpha Phi's ...i was goingot say share the wealth but what i meant to say is share the pins. I understand ppl's collections and her's is collecting Phi pins because she is an A PHi but she must be well aware of the upset that her fellow sisters have when they want to bid on and purchase a pin on ebay when her dad is sooo dam stingy, rude and selfish!

I been outbid by this man sooo many times i cannot even begin to count! his closest realtives are A Phi's why is he so rude to us then and not let us share a piece of our history!:(

Laura

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OMG .. it's gorgeous! http://mindscraps.com/s/contrib/blackeye/Lcrying.gif

Dagnabit, I hate being a poor graduate student!!

What a tool, why won't s/he let everyone see the initiate's name?? Just the high bidder? This is whack, yo...what a beautiful pin!!! :eek:

TNP....post nicely of strangers.
(wagging my finger)

I am missing a pin like the one on ebay but I was initiated about 40 years after that initiation date. I hope my old missing badge never comes up on EBAY.

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Beta Gamma, 1967