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05-02-2001, 10:46 PM
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The auctioning of badges on ebay is a good remember for us to make arrangements for our badges afer our deaths. Personally, I have in my will that I will either be buried with it or it's sent back to Nationals. If we don't tell our non GLO family members what to do-how will they know how to handle our badge? I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of the badges are from estate sales.
Even more unfortunate, other important items occassionaly are found on ebay. Every once in a while a ritual book for a GLO is up for bid. I always hope the winner bidder is a member of the organization.
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05-09-2001, 09:53 AM
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Just wanted to let everyone know, another old D Phi E badge from one of our now closed Canada chapters just sold on ebay for $935. I wish I had that kind of loot to buy sorority and fraternity pins!
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05-09-2001, 10:15 AM
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Okay, now I'm REALLY ticked off. Some chick with the E-Bay name of ADsweetiePi is bidding on our badges! In a way, I can understand how non-Greeks buy badges for collectibles. I don't agree with it, but I can see where they wouldn't understand the sentiment behind the wearing of the badge. But how could a fellow Greek be so cold as to buy another GLO's badge, knowing our policies about them???? I'm assuming from this person's name that she is an ADPi, yet she's buying up DZ badges (this isn't the first one she's bid on). I sent an e-mail asking her to please not bid on our badges, saying that as an ADPi, I was sure that she understands how important these things are. I have yet to receive a response. arrgghh... I am NOT a happy person right now. (For all you ADPi's out there on GC, please know that I'm not trying to be negative towards you or your organization --- I'm just REALLY frustrated by this one person.) I would never dream of buying another GLO's badge.
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05-09-2001, 04:20 PM
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Location: Kansas City, Kansas USA
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dzrose, I have been fortunate enuff to have made contact with bidders on our Badges and they are Brothers!
Know badd experiences from them!
i bid on to LXA watches and had a Brother bidding on them, he dropped out and I got them.
I have been in contact with bothe Brothers who got the Badges and they are going to the right place.
Of course, there are coarse people out there who do nat care as they have no life but that. People collect all sorts of things which is not bad unless they are the Robber Barons on today and want to gouge people like us who feel strongly about what we had and have! If not there would not be so many people on this site!!!
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Pittsburg State U. (Kansas)
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05-09-2001, 06:31 PM
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Look at it this way, everyone. People on e bay can buy our badges and they'll then own a pretty piece of jewelry. Fine. But they will never know or understand the symbolism behind the shape of the badge, or the jewels or the letters or anything else pertaining to us. The badge is only a physical symbol of our organization. The idea of true brotherhood/sisterhood is not something that can be bought on e bay or anyplace else. It is something that is offered only to a relatively few lucky people, and those e bay people will never be able to touch it no matter how many of our badges we buy.
That said, those losers seriously need to get a life! 
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Proud to be Delta-Z :-)
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05-11-2001, 04:18 PM
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Ah Tracy me Lass, very well put!!!!! I know what I did to get mine and I know what has come over the years and Never Give It Up for the world!
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Tom Earp LX Z#1
Pittsburg State U. (Kansas)
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05-11-2001, 04:20 PM
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Quote:
Originally posted by KillarneyRose:
Look at it this way, everyone. People on e bay can buy our badges and they'll then own a pretty piece of jewelry. Fine. But they will never know or understand the symbolism behind the shape of the badge, or the jewels or the letters or anything else pertaining to us. The badge is only a physical symbol of our organization. The idea of true brotherhood/sisterhood is not something that can be bought on e bay or anyplace else. It is something that is offered only to a relatively few lucky people, and those e bay people will never be able to touch it no matter how many of our badges we buy.
That said, those losers seriously need to get a life!
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That's a great view to take! I'll think of those words next time I see a DZ badge on E-Bay. Maybe it will cool me off a little! 
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05-13-2001, 04:21 AM
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Hey DZ Rose... 
I totally understand your frustration with someone buying your badge. I too have been ticked off many a time by ebay randoms buying my sorority's pins n' stuff. I am not one to normally give people the benefit of the doubt, but since I've gotten in touch with some of my fellow sisters who bid on ebay, we've formed an alliance and when someone bids on a badge, pin, etc. and they're from another sorority or a random, we email them and *sometimes* (albeit rarely) the person is buying for their friend or biological sister or something. Now, I don't believe everyone who tells me this, don't get me wrong! But I know that I bid on a DG badge for my sister (though I'm in a different sorority) because she didn't have an ebay ID. Anyway...I know I'm rambling, but I just wanted to offer a different perspective. Bottom line is that we're all working toward the same thing, and I would rather have a fellow greek member bidding on a badge with the intention to return it to a rightful owner, than some dumb ass collector who will sell it to the highest bidder. My .2.... God, that was a long ass email! SOWWEE!
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05-13-2001, 04:01 PM
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I've noticed there has been a decline in AXO badges on eBay as of late...which is cool. I actually considered buying a badge that had been converted to diamonds (instead of pearls), 'cause I had lost my badge. I found mine, and the price shot up to MORE than it would have cost me to buy a new badge with all diamonds.
Anyway, for AXO, there seems to be more paraphenalia instead of pins. Which is good for me.
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05-17-2001, 04:59 PM
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Someone selling one of my fraternity's pledge ins (Alpha Phi Omega) for $9.50. For everything I can tell, it is identical to the pledge pins that the National Fraternity sells for $4 to the chapters. I simply intend to tell this to everyone who bids on the pin.
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05-21-2001, 12:41 AM
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At least now we all know where the stolen goods are going to these days *L*
EBAY
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