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I am a GLO member who cherishes the emblem of my fraternity deeply, and I am also a fairly serious collector of fraternity and sorority badges. I think many of the people here are making some uninformed assumptions about the people buying and selling these pins, and the reasons they’re doing it.
I think it’s naïve and childish to expect others to share your values, and to cherish something as you do. To a dealer making a living by selling estate jewelry, a fraternity or sorority pin is no different than an engagement ring or a wedding band or a pocket watch. What gives you the right to send hate mail to someone for auctioning off the badge of your group?
I commend everyone involved in returning badges to national headquarters, in trying to ensure badges go only to members, and in recovering stolen badges. That is indeed a worthy effort. But the kind of hostility many GLO members display toward buyers and sellers of pins is contrary to the ideals that your badge is supposed to stand for in my opinion.
A badge is a hunk of gold and jewels. What is truly valuable are the ideals for which the emblem stands. That is intangible and cannot be sold on Ebay.
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