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Originally posted by FuzzieAlum
Actually, that's one reason I don't like to buy pins on eBay. We're trying to protect them, but it has the effect of driving the prices up and making the market ever bigger.
And honestly, I'd rather see my pin "scrapped" and no longer be a pin than be in the hands of a collector.
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That's right, and I still think we should just write off the pins already on the market as lost and stop trying to get them back through auctions like Ebay. I bet it would lower the going prices quite a bit, which would mean less money for collectors and that would warm my heart, I have to say. Arguing won't do any good--let's just hit them where it hurts. (By the way, I apologise to all the non-rude collectors out there...but, well, a few bad ones ruin it for the whole bunch.)
And while we're at it, maybe we ought to make a bigger effort to prevent pins from getting on the market in the first place. My bright ideas stop there--I have no idea how to do this, especially since I know it'd be really hard and we'll never be able to just eradicate the whole market. BUT...we can make sure that our brothers and sisters know their organizations' "badge rules" (i.e. what to do with the badge upon termination of membership or member's death, etc.), so that less of them might end up in estate sales or (worse) sold by the owners themselves. OK, I know my big ideas hardly ever work, but I would rather DO something about it than run in circles trying to get dealers to come around to our way of thinking, you know?