Yikes - another badge on eBay
 

Another badge on eBay! Item # 2105968294. Let's flood this seller with emails asking them not to sell it and return it to IHQ! The initial asking price is $100 and Buy It Now is $160 - someone is being very greedy. I hope no one bids on it!!!!

Hmm...
 

Do you think it's possible that this seller is a sister (or disgruntled member)? The first line of the item description sounds all too familiar to me. Also, the seller's email looks familiar...and I know I've seen it somewhere before.

OTW, what does her AOL profile say, if anything?

Here's the link to this auction... it's so sad if she is a member selling it... why would you do that?

Sounds like it's an old badge though - didn't they stop inscribing the backs years and years ago? With the '25' engraved on it, maybe it's from 1925?

Hmm, actually, I just looked up the name on the badge at Sister Search, and she initiated in 1947. Doesn't say she entered Chapter Grand though... I wonder if we could contact her and let her know her badge is on EBay?

Gosh darnit...I have no AOL access here at work! :mad: If anyone else has access to AOL, please find out if she has a profile!

she has a profile, but it's completely blank. kinda odd if you ask me. ah well though. what a greedy wench. ehhhhhhhhh... and who in their right mind would publish the name? moron. that so pisses me off. i'm going to call or e-mail IHQ now and see what they say. i'll let ya'll know what happens.

marissa

okays. i called IHQ and spoke to the voicemail of the membership services lady. hopefully she'll gimme a call back tomorrow. i'll prolly just drop her a line again tomorrow though.

marissa

If you look at her other auctions... she's got lots of badges listed... all at $100 each starting bid.

Sister or not... she's a collector.

It said 1947? I did a search too and she was listed as a 1922 Initiate of Alpha Chapter. :confused: I typed in Webster as her Initiated last name, and that's what I got.

If this is the one, then she has definitely entered Chapter Grand. :(

Sandy, she's the one. I checked my hardcover directory of Alpha Gams and there is a Helen Webster from Alpha who is listed as Chapter Grand.

Hmm, maybe it's not a sister then. But I still don't know where I've seen that email addy before...and I know it's not from eBay! She probably obtained it from an estate sale or another eBay auction. :mad:

Aaargg!
 

There's another one!

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...tem=2106214180

And this one's got a collection of badges/pins for sale, too.

I just wrote the seller about one of those badges. I also forwarded the ebay listing to IHQ.

once again. when it rains it pours. always seems like there's a ton of our badges all at once and then nothing for like a few weeks. ah well. at least it looks as though the second one is going to another alpha gam.

marissa

yet another.

i'm bidding on it right now (brntcheese) but i can't afford to go too high. so if i lose it, feel free to bid.

marissa

alpha gam badge on ebay