I got this email from the brother that was bidding on the pin i mentioned:
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I went to a meeting last year in Baltimore of Fraternity Pin Collectors Society. There are about 15 hard core members and maybe 30 softies, like me. The buy/sell/trade pins day and night. I think some of them go overboard spending so much money on pins, but it does help keep the histories of Greeks alive. Some of them know more about my Fraternity than I do, and they are not even Lambda Chi's. I don't think they are in it for a profit as much as for the satisfaction of knowing they are a hard to find item. The leader of the group is not even Greek. He likes the old and obsolete pins. He must have a thousand different pins, mostly early 1900's and older. He is a med student at GWU.
If you are surfing Ebay, look for a bidder named SKIDMARKS. I don't have to search for pins. I just look at his bidding and they will all be there.
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Anyway, I guess this shows I'm wrong, but there's nothing we can do about it, which sucks! The only thing I know to do is watch the auctions and try to outbid them.
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Steve Corbin
Lambda Chi Alpha
Theta Kappa Chapter
Rose-Hulman Inst. of Tech.
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