Selling your own GLO's badges on EBay

[Trey_P-I_47]

OK I just did a little research, and even though the ADPi Badge was mis-described, the person who bought it still got a deal.

The Alpha Delta Pi NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS sells a plain yellow gold Badge for $80 (White Gold for $95).

www.fratpins.com has 2 plain ones for sale: 1 is $95, and the other is $75.

The person on ebay paid $61.......so even though the description was mistaken, they still got a better deal then other places, even better than the OFFICIAL place.

So what, an inexperienced Badge collector made a mistake, it happens, not everyone is perfect.

[1908Revelations]

Originally Posted by Trey_P-I_47

Honestly it shouldnt have been impossible to figure out. If you clicked the links to his ebay, connected LXA and his grammatical errors, it was only a matter of time, but I thought the geniuses on GC would have gotten that figured out about page 1.........oh well.

Originally Posted by Drolefille

I didn't click through to the ebay pages I just guessed.

I guessed too!

[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by kddani

The seller fraudulently misrepresented the ADPi badge. There is no "typo" involved. "While a plain Adelta Delta Pin pin, it is very old!!!!!
Date: 2. 4. 04. Makes this pin around 103 years old."

Granted "Adelta" is a typo, but this pin is three years old, NOT 103. That's a huge difference. This is not at all honest, it is blatantly misrepresenting the truth. And if this person deals in pin collecting like it appears, there is absolutely no excuse for his ignorance. It is fraudulent misrepresentation.

Originally Posted by kddani

Funny how the LXA's who are defending this guy just overlook that he IS ripping off people by committing fraud- saying that a 3 year old badge is 103 years old. Obviously y'all either haven't read all of the thread, or you're just choosing to ignore that issue. So YES, your brother is ripping people off, he's committing fraud.

C'mon, Dani. You know it's not fraud unless there was actual knowledge that the badge was only three years old and an intent to deceive. The seller certainly should have known better, but haven't we all had enough experience to know that doesn't mean he actually did know better?

Originally Posted by ΑΓΔSquirrelGirl

That's something I wonder about...the legalities of selling a badge that is actually owned by an organization. Can we get their auction taken down because of that?

Originally Posted by ΑΓΔSquirrelGirl

Leslie Ann: That sucks. What about people that sell their own bages though? Even though that's probably not the majority of the sellers.

Leslie Ann is right -- there's not a thing HQs can do about it. As has been discussed on GC before, from a legal standpoint (as opposed to a moral or ethical standpoint), these policies and documents stating that the GLO "owns" the badge and the member just "leases" it aren't worth the paper they're written on. First, most such policies were only instituted in the last few decades, so they simply can't apply to members initiated before the policies were put in place. Second, such policies and "lease agreements" are essentially unenforceable.

If a member of a GLO cares about what happens to his or her badge after death, specific instructions need to be left either in funeral instructions (for burial) or a will.

Originally Posted by Trey_P-I_47

Honestly it shouldnt have been impossible to figure out. If you clicked the links to his ebay, connected LXA and his grammatical errors, it was only a matter of time, but I thought the geniuses on GC would have gotten that figured out about page 1.........oh well.

Some of us did.

[Trey_P-I_47]

My apologies to those who were insulted for figuring it out, There are some really smart people on GC (alot can be learned from this site, pls some wonderful contacts), but there are also plenty of arrogant ones too.