eBay Badge!
 

What a little sparkler....I've never seen one with diamonds, although I know you can get them!

And isn't that sad...the seller comes right out and says she was a Phi Mu, and that her grandmother bought this badge for her. The operative thing in that description, of course, is that she WAS. No longer IS. Sad. :(

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I dont understand why she doesn't sell it maybe on private side, or give it to nationals.... it is to dangerous to sell it so openly on ebay where ANYONE can get it.

I know that even if I wasn't a sister anymore (that will never happen) I would NEVER part with my badge, even if it is just the standard badge given at innitiation...its mine and I hold it very dear to me! :eek:

I would ESPECIALLY be more protective of a badge that was sooooo beautiful...

hopefully a Phi Mu will take that badge in and make it her own.

Or better -- I hope nobody buys it.

With a starting price of $225, I wonder if she isn't trying to cash in on the absurd bidding of late.

Any chance this person is not actually a Phi Mu? Hubby and I looked at her other auctions, and there's tons of other Greek stuff, along with some jewelry she bought at some sort of exhibition or something. I got the feeling she knows what to look for and the worth of what she has.
Just a thought. Oh, and she apparently dropped her opening bid on the badge.

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1967, Alpha Pi

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Alpha Pi, 1966

Anyone else think it's strange that the seller has two Alpha Pi badges from the same time?

I think it's too bad someone has all these badges and doesn't know what they mean.

I keep mine in a special heart-shaped box on my dresser, because I wear it so infrequently (for those non-Phi Mus, it's specified that our badge is not to be worn on a daily basis. An attempt to remind women how important their badge really is, I think.) When I open it and see my pin, I always remember initation day, and all the secret things only the women of Phi Mu know -- [edited to keep them that way]

My badge was $36, but I can't imagine parting with that little piece of jewelry for any amount of money. I have some family heirlooms that mean a lot to me, but I would never have guessed something that's been in my life only a few years would come to have such signifigance. I'd imagine wedding and engagement rings are the same way.

Anyone remember what forum that poem about greek badges is in?