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Originally posted by lauren1874
This guy was selling pins on eBay the other day -- like a whole collection of his fraternity and sorority pins -- and he actually said in his description that he knows these are the property of the respective organizations, but that that means nothing to him and he doesn't care. Nice, I thought.
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Yeah. That gives me the strong urge to kick something. It's one thing when someone gets a badge and they're clueless as to what to do with it, but that's entirely another. I don't even go looking for pins on Ebay anymore, it just stirs up violent sickish feelings inside me.
Grrrr. But anyway...
Here's a just-for-interesting-conversation on this topic: WHY are pins such a popular item to collect? They don't appreciate in face value...well maybe a little, but I know that the worth of the amount of gold in my one-inch badge isn't going to go through the roof anytime soon, they don't mean anything to the collectors (not the way we see it as fraternity and sorority members, anyway)...what's the appeal? And if GLO's are no longer going to pan out large amounts of money to retrieve badges, do the pins only appreciate in value to other collectors? Maybe they go around in a giant Ebay circle?
Definitely time for me to go to bed.
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