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Originally posted by GPhiBLtColonel
There is something called auction sniper that can usually get your ebay bid in the last seconds of an auction presumably to win but if a collector does it too, the auction is won by whoever's sniped bid gets in the closest to the end of the auction time.
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Actually, the auction is won by which sniper has the highest bid.
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I asked at every jewelry vendor I came across but none of them had any NPC badges and two vendors told me that someone had bought all their sorority badges out the day prior on early bird day.
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This is a great story, GPhiBLtColonel. I have also worked with Keepers of the Key to return Kappa badges from my collection. But the above quoted part really grabbed my attention. This is the single biggest frustration for rescuers and collectors alike these days, I think.
I go out hunting at least twice a month, so I can tell you this started happening almost INSTANTLY after the NY Times article came out *. The most amazing part of your story is that a dealer actually had a Kappa key available for sale. They must have been living under a rock. I haven't seen a single one since that infamous article came out. As you say, dealers are paying the higher prices to hit the shows before anyone else, grab up all the badges and get them on ebay. Almost every single time I go out hunting, a dealer mentions that article to me. Ugh.
The moral of the story is... be discreet. The more noise you make in public about rescuing badges, the more you'll pay, and the less you'll find (off-eBay anyway).
wptw
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* As I said it would at the time, here on GC, and others told me I was just bitter and being overly dramatic.
http://forums.greekchat.com/gcforums...threadid=21927