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Surprise! The "jackass" is also a member of an NIC fraternity.
And so am I. I'm a very serious badge collector AND I'm a very dedicated member of my NIC fraternity. The VAST majority of collectors are fraternity and sorority members. And we aren't "ignorant to the cherished symbols of your fraternity". Quite the opposite in fact. We just see the issue differently than you do.
There is still some confusion out there about the difference between dealers and collectors. Dealers are typically not greek and are in it solely for profit (nothing wrong with that, by the way). The two people we've discussed here aren't "dealing pins" - they're collectors. Collectors are very serious about continuously improving what we have, so we sell off duplicate or less valuable pins to fund the continued evolution of our own collections. That's what you're seeing when you stumble onto one of our auctions. We're generally nice people, but after a few hundred rabid emails we get a little snotty ourselves.
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