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Originally Posted by susan314
You may have overlooked the part where I mentioned that we lease (not own) our badges. Not sure if any other GLO has a similar policy, but I specifically signed a document when I took possession of my badge about it being a lease (not a purchase).
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Many sororities have a similar policy.
It's doubtful how enforceable they are legally, for a variety of reasons. (One potential problem with these policies: When a member of a sorority with a policy like this dies and the family reports the death to HQ, does HQ inquire whether the badge was buried with the member and, if not, demand its return? If not, I see a problem with later trying to claim "ownership.")
And so far as I know, most sororities that have such policies/documents only instituted them in the last decade or two, so even within those sororities, the policies wouldn't apply, at least not with any possible legal force, to people initiated before the policy was instituted. So, regardless of the policy now, if the badge inquestion belonged to someone who was initiated prior to the policy's institution, and who did not sign a document like the one you signed, there's absolutely no legal prohibition on someone else owning it and selling it.
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Originally Posted by susan314
. . . it is completely in violation of Alpha Gamma Delta's badge disposition policy for these badges to appear on eBay.
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eBay isn't a party to and isn't bound by Alpha Gamma Delta's policies. Neither is any other non-member who comes into possession of a badge. That's the point Jono was making, and he's right.
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Originally Posted by ΑΓΔSquirrelGirl
Ebay will take down auctions that are objectionable. I wonder if pointing out that those badges are essentially "stolen" property would get them removed from ebay?
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No, because most of the time, they are not essentially stolen property.
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