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Yeah, it really sucks that 'our' badges are on eBay, and there are 'pin collectors' out ther buying them. We need to realize though however, that many/most pin collectors are greek, and they are collecting them because of their meanings, values and just mainly because they like them.
We cannot freak out everytime a new badge is on eBay, because we will all get ulcers and go to the hospital, and eventually get a gray hair or two from it.
Question for you all: If there were a badge on ebay, stating "Alpha Lambda Phi badge - 1842" and there were no bids on it. And you think, "Alpha Lambda Phi, what the hell is that?" So, you go into the actual auction and realize, "Man-oh-man, its really an Alpha Delta Phi badge from 1842". Would you bid on it?
Shit yeah you would!
PS, not all the people who so called 'own' these pins know what they are, what they mean, know which organization they belong to...etc. I have seen many pins at Antique stores and garage sales, so they do not realize that they should be donated/sold back to the respective HQ. Educating members where their pin should go is great, but when they are dead, they really can't package it up and send it on its merry way.....and a lot of the time, their families don't know that either.
We need to get over it, because the more people are worried about it, the more the pins will sell for.
That is all.
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