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And now back to the ORIGINAL question which was posted in the PI PHI forum and is NOT about whether or not the relative who sold the IC badge was not looking to make some big bucks (I doubt it was appraised at $5K.... that is the what the collector who purchased it paid) or whether or not Pi Phis have a right to discuss our feelings about a heritage badge being sold at public auction... I think we Pi Phis DO have the right to discuss it in OUR forum. If you don't like that, you don't have to visit our forum.
As individual members of Pi Beta Phi, we purchase our badges (the plain badge being included in the initiation fees) so they do belong to the member *but* when a member resigns, they no longer have the right to wear the arrow badge and it is supposed to be returned to HQ. I suppose if someone had purchased a jeweled badge, they could argue the point and I do remember a pledge sister of mine selling her jeweled arrow to her little sis prior to resigning.
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