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02-20-2004, 11:42 PM
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Yep. I have one just like it. It was my great Aunts. She was initiated in 1936.
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Wow! I am impressed, but also jealous! That's so cool. Beautiful and sentimental!
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02-20-2004, 11:44 PM
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Yes. She had no heirs. And when my mom told her I had joined a sorority, she asked which one. Mom told her ADPi, she said, i have a special gift for her. So on my 20th bday, it was given to me as a gift. I cried. I wear it everyone. My poor badge, never gets any attention.
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02-20-2004, 11:52 PM
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That is such a great story! What a true treasure!
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02-23-2004, 05:44 PM
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Alpha pin
I still have mine. See, I was one of my chapter's last Pledges, and it's a long story, but my pledge pin was not collected from me.
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03-24-2004, 04:31 AM
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Re: Re: TyOregon
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Sorry to crash your board...... Tyoregon does have a daughter and mother and they are both Alpha Phi's our EO knows of his daughter and EO has seen her serious collection of Alpha Phi badges that daddy warbucks ( tyoregon) has bought for her. He is a not very nice man if you ever deal with him on an email level. Even if your the nicest sincerest person who emailed him a non threatening email he still is a creep.
He does run up the board to outragious amts and in my opinon is a creep. He tells everyone he has a daughter that is a KD,APHI,KKG,ADPI, etc... i don't know his reasoning but nonetheless a jerk
I love your idea of guardians of the diamond program to help "save " your badges... you all should be commended for trying to save your heritage like us all against creeps like him!
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Just a note from another board crasher  I have had some email run-ins with TyOregon and I am sorry to say this about another of God's creatures but the man is evil & conniving! He has told one of our international officers who emailed him about a badge of ours he was bidding on that he has a Gamma Phi daughter and Gamma Phi holds a special place in his heart blah blah blah...Laura is right that this man has deep pockets and a bad attitude! Nasty side note -- I once did a search to see what other kinds of things he bought besides sorority badges -- well I learned that he has something like a 46 inch waist and wears sweater vests (in 2XL)!! He also collects anything associated with the Portland (OR) rose festival and stamp boxes......
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03-24-2004, 11:21 AM
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Hey, is this where all the cross-forum board crashers are hanging out? Cool.
You find the guy a nasty human being, so you'll just drop right down to his level and start insulting him based on his weight and choice of clothing?
That's some real class there!
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03-24-2004, 11:22 AM
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This man sounds amazing (and not in a good way).
I just don't get pin collectors, male or female. What the hell is the point of collecting sorority/fraternity pins. Trying to make up for the fact that themselves or a family member didn't get a bid? What?
I mean our (our in every fraternity and sorority) have pretty much NO VALUE to anyone outside that particular sorority/fraternity. I just don't get it.
As Denzel Washington said in Philadelphia "will someone please explain it to me like I was a five year old"
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03-24-2004, 11:27 AM
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Originally posted by wptw
Hey, is this where all the cross-forum board crashers are hanging out? Cool.
You find the guy a nasty human being, so you'll just drop right down to his level and start insulting him based on his weight and choice of clothing?
That's some real class there!
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For someone to crash our forum and say we have 'no class', I would say you need to mind your business. You don't know the situation at hand. So in other words, keep your insulting comments to yourself.
Sorry if I sound like a bee atch, but this irked me.
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03-24-2004, 12:35 PM
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Brianna, I'm not sure which of your posts was more off the mark.
First of all, I was replying to GPhiLtColonel's comment about the guy's waist size, which I maintain was just plain mean. Truly a low blow. I mean, she even prefaces it by saying "nasty side note". But judging from her username, I'm going out on a limb to say she's not an ADPi. So you see, I didn't say YOU have no class. Please read carefully.
As for your other post about collectors collecting badges to make up for the fact that they didn't get a bid... I DID get a bid, which I accepted. As did just about every other badge collector out there. So I'm not really sure what you're talking about.
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03-24-2004, 12:42 PM
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Brianna, I'm not sure which of your posts was more off the mark.
First of all, I was replying to GPhiLtColonel's comment about the guy's waist size, which I maintain was just plain mean. Truly a low blow. I mean, she even prefaces it by saying "nasty side note". But judging from her username, I'm going out on a limb to say she's not an ADPi. So you see, I didn't say YOU have no class. Please read carefully.
As for your other post about collectors collecting badges to make up for the fact that they didn't get a bid... I DID get a bid, which I accepted. As did just about every other badge collector out there. So I'm not really sure what you're talking about.
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Fine if you want to reply to GPhiLtColonel's post, it's called quote her post. You didn't. So I do have a right to assume that you are in fact dissing anyone whom has posted on this thread.
I don't why collectors are so interested in our (all fraternity and sorority) pins. I can only guess, that was my guess. Obviously, not everyone is going to fall into that category.
But since you are most likely a pin collector, why don't you explain it to me. Explain why pin collectors are rude and conniving? I'm not saying you are those two charactoristics, but the pin collectors I've delt with are. They make the bids on ebay so astronomical that a sister can't even attempt to save her own sororities pin. And that is all it comes to saving our pins from collectors who have no business owning them in the first place. Explain it to me. I want to understand and I don't.
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03-24-2004, 12:55 PM
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Huh? My post was the very next one and I referenced her comment almost verbatim. I don't see how that was unclear in any way. But OK, next time I'll quote her post for you.
There are a ton of threads here on why badge collectors collect badges. They appear weekly, sometimes daily. All your questions are answered there.
But as a quick summary, I'd say you appear to confusing collectors with dealers. You may also be basing your opinion of collectors on one guy (tyorgegon) who most actual collectors would tell you is not part of our little "community". And I'd say that ebay automatically sets market price. If the opening bid is too high, the item won't sell. So while YOU may consider the opening bid "astronomical" and prohibitive, if someone bids on it, then that's how much it's worth. And I'd say that what drives the price up to astronomical levels is generally not collectors but members. And I'd point out that one of your own beloved sisters is one of these "evil and nasty" pin collectors. All of these points are discussed on recent threads on the subject. Do a quick search on my username and you'll find them. I post almost exclusively on this topic.
EDIT: I went back and removed my "rollseyes" smiley from this post because I sense you really do want to understand this.
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03-24-2004, 01:04 PM
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I get that ebay sets a market price, obviously I wasn't clear on what I meant with the bidding getting astronomical.
For example I was bidding on a pin. Let's say ebay was saying the high bid was 50. So I go in and put 51, like ebay instructs and it says I've been outbid. I go in again and raise it. Come back with the same result. It turned out that the high bidder, which was a collector, had bid like 150. So that meant until someone outbid that we were always going to be told, we've been outbid. That is what I mean by making it astronomical. The seller could start the bid out at 20 bucks, but if someone goes in an bids 150, ebay isn't going to say that. It's gonna say that the high bid is 20 bucks. I'm not sure if I am making any sense. If I'm not, I'm sorry.
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03-24-2004, 06:04 PM
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Originally posted by wptw
Hey, is this where all the cross-forum board crashers are hanging out? Cool.
You find the guy a nasty human being, so you'll just drop right down to his level and start insulting him based on his weight and choice of clothing?
That's some real class there!
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This is only thing I will say on this matter and then I am done crashing ADPi's boards --- I did not "insult" tyoregon -- I stated what I learned he has bid on and bought besides badges -- it's the facts as you can see on ebay yourself.
I prefaced my remark by saying it was a "nasty side note" because that is just what it was and I admit it -- it is always nasty to talk about someone behind their back.
I apologize to the women of ADPi on this board who have to deal with these comments because of what I posted.
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03-24-2004, 06:15 PM
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Let's all play nice please!
GPhiBLtColonel, you are always more than welcome to browse and reply to the ADPi Forum!
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03-24-2004, 06:21 PM
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This is only thing I will say on this matter and then I am done crashing ADPi's boards --- I did not "insult" tyoregon -- I stated what I learned he has bid on and bought besides badges -- it's the facts as you can see on ebay yourself.
I prefaced my remark by saying it was a "nasty side note" because that is just what it was and I admit it -- it is always nasty to talk about someone behind their back.
I apologize to the women of ADPi on this board who have to deal with these comments because of what I posted.
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Sweetie, you don't need to apologize for this other person's behavior. I completely echo Texas Princess' sentiment, you are more than welcome to crash any time you want.
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