badges on ebay

[Coramoor]

I have a random story about pins and ebay...

I went to a dinner with a large group of alumni from the '50s last year. One was telling me how about 30 years ago his house was broken into and his wife's jewelery box was stolen. He kept his pin in this box and figured it was gone forever.

Well, skip forward to about 2004, and he receives a letter in the mail with his pin in the envelope, explaining how the sender found the pin on ebay, bought it, and then tracked down the rightful owner on the Beta website and sent it back to him!

I thought that was pretty cool.

[zhbeta158]

The Ebay Group would not be for pins, ha, it would be to use each other as a resource as well as offer discounts to each other.

By the way, that's an awesome story.

[NickoJCU]

Originally Posted by Coramoor

...found the pin on ebay, bought it, and then tracked down the rightful owner on the Beta website and sent it back to him!

Using this brilliant idea, I have helped return two pins to their rightful owners. Simply by calling or emailing the Brother from the Beta website letting him know, and politely contacting the seller asking that it be returned to its original owner (as most of these auctions list the name and roll number engraved on the back). No seller has refused me yet, as most are members of GLOs who understand the sentimental value behind a fraternity badge.

The sellers were both cooperative- one of the Brother's pins had been stolen during a burglary last month. It turns out that a thief had sold it at a pawn shop three states away, where the eBay seller bought it to resell.

You could say eBay has its benefits... without it being listed there, that Brother would probably never have seen his badge again!

[zhbeta158]

I have told sellers to return them to the owners but in doing so i almost got kicked off ebay, but I must admit I was not very friendly...