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Originally posted by cash78mere:
(not just to OTW: just used your quote)
Honestly, this list (and other posts) are making me sick. Not because they are buying badges, but because some of you all are obsessed with making their lives miserable. Who made you God? If ANYONE ever harassed me, I would report them to their internet provider and harass them back. I think I am going to notify these people that they are being discussed openly on an internet site.
There are more important things in this world than tracking badge buyers!
By the way, I have bought several badges, and enjoy each one. They make wonderful conversation pieces and would NEVER be mishandled or misused.
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First, I don't harass anyone on E-bay, regardless of how angry their actions may make me. I actually have been very pleasant to the people who I have contacted about badges up for auction, and although some were nasty, others were very polite and even offered to let me know first should they run across any other of my org's badges.
Second, discussing on GC the handles of badge collectors who buy badges regularly on E-bay isn't a crime. I believe OTW was just telling us to look out for those particular E-Bay names so that we would realize that we aren't going to be bidding against a brother or sister in a badge auction if we see one of those handles as the current high bidder. She wasn't telling everyone to run out and start sending nasty e-mails to every person bidding on a badge.
And third, I don't see how anyone in a GLO can NOT see a problem with the selling of badges. Our badges are very important to us (or most of us anyway). They are symbolic and represent parts of our history that non-members do not know about or understand. How much of a conversation piece can another group's badge be when you don't know the first thing about what it stands for? About all anyone can say is "Oh, yeah, that belongs to XYZ organization. Pretty isn't it?". I would NEVER, out of respect for other Greeks, start collecting other GLO's badges or any other of their memorabilia.
Cash78mere, this isn't intended as a flame. I'm just trying to explain why the whole badge issue is such a heated topic for so many Greeks, and why we have a problem with people who collect them.
[This message has been edited by dzrose93 (edited May 24, 2001).]