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Aggie Ring for sale on eBay. Is this a joke ?

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Aggie Rob
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Did any read any of his past auctions?

He purchased a College Station Police Patch in mint condition and a Honda Goldwing Motorbike with a trailer.

What the hell is he going to do? Pose as a cop and give tickets to people?

Rob

12th Man Ag
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I'm happy to hear the Ring Office investigates these types of situations. I can understand the Ring Office making sure people aren't ordering a bunch of rings to sell for profit.

Silvertaps,

I have no problem with the Ring Office investigating these things. But, if the poster on this thread is responsbile for such research, there is absolutely no place for him/her to post any of the findings on this board. If the poster is not in charge of the research, then it is an abuse of their position and an invasion of privacy. I would be interested to know which situation is in fact true.
R.R. Ag
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Whoooooaaaa!! The guy gets called out by name in the Battalion Mail Call for the whole University to see. Sucks to be you Matt Shomer.


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Selling an Aggie Ring on the Internet is Wrong


April 09, 2003

I received some very disturbing information from a friend today. A student at Texas A&M, named Matt Shomer, is selling his Aggie ring on eBay. Now I do not call him an Aggie because in truth no true Aggie that is able to afford such a priceless sentiment would ever sell his ring.

This student at Texas A&M received his ring last Thursday along with thousands of other very excited Aggies who have been waiting years to receive their ring, but instead of wearing it with pride, he has left it in its box and placed an ad to sell it over the Internet.

Even more upsetting is the advertisement and description that he has placed with the ring. He is not selling his ring so that an Aggie who is unable to afford a ring may have one. No. He is selling his ring with the statement "Have you ever wanted an Aggie Ring but didn't want to go to A&M? Or did you go to A&M and transfer without getting a ring? Or are you just a poor soul that failed out but cannot let the world know? Do all your friends have an Aggie Ring and you don't? No matter your reason."

He is trying to sell the Aggie Network so that any person with a little money may claim to have worked as hard as each Aggie on this earth without ever having to have stepped a foot on our campus.

Not only is something like this disgraceful, but it breaks my heart. I know I am not the only Aggie who feels this way and I hope that something will be done to ensure that this precious symbol of all that Texas A&M is will not be allowed to be sold to some outsider who can never understand what being an Aggie truly means.

Hayley Henderson

Class of 2005

jmtamu
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Good letter. He deserves all the wrath he receives.
AggieRob
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I am in no way agreeing with this guy's actions, but I thought I would let you all in on his side (as told to me through email).

He says that the ring is actually not his, that it was given to him last week as a way to "pay off a debt" from another student. Since he is not going to wear the ring (it's not originally his), he thought the best way to get "paid back" was to sell it.

I subsequently wrote him and suggested that he take it to the Assn. of Former Students, and see if they would work with him to get it "sold" to another student. He may not get sticker price for the ring, but it might be enough to fill that debt (that the other student didn't seem to have any trouble clearing with his new ring).

Now, do I know this to be the truth? No. I just thought I would pass along what he wrote back to me after I asked him the $$ value of his integrity.

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Aggie Football... it's FRAN-tastic!!!

"Great necessities call out great virtues" -- Abigail Adams
Christian Pulisic FanBoy
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It's the same thing though...why would you take a ring as a payment of a debt? That's wore than selling your own ring...at least that is yours.
jmtamu
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Hey, I have no problem with him selling a ring on Ebay, whether it be his or anybody else's. I do have a major problem with the following and the seller is the one that wrote the following:

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This ring is invaluable! Just wear it to an interview and it will get you a job! The aggie network is huge and this ring is more powerful than an A&M diploma. Now you can get all the perks without ever attending A SINGLE CLASS AT TEXAS A&M!!! In my experience a majority of interviewers treat the ring as proof of graduation and so will all past, present and future Aggies. This may be the only time an offer like this is made available so I urge you to bid.


His integrity has already been compromised in my opinion.
Christian Pulisic FanBoy
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This ring is invaluable! Just wear it to an interview and it will get you a job! The aggie network is huge and this ring is more powerful than an A&M diploma.


That's a crock of **** though. Why would you beleive that? I'd never hire someone JUST because they're an Aggie.
Silvertaps
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Rudy...
There is also the element of a RESUME you have to consider. They would get laughed out of the interview.

"When I grow up, I'm going to go to Bovine University." --Ralph
bthotugigem05
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This person has not come to the Ring Office to discuss anything as of yet. Comes down to this. The auction has ended, some phone calls were made, and the situation has been resolved, let's let it stay that way. May this be a reminder to all of us about the integrity of the Aggie Ring and Texas A&M.
ArkansasAg
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If my memory serves, the rumor of the Former Students subsidizing the rings was around thirty years ago when I got mine in '73. I remember paying $45.00, but it may have been more. Any other ol'Ags out there remember?
delonghorn
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I realize this is an aggie thing, and I wouldn't understand.... And I realize that it is a slap in the face that he's giving someone else the opportunity to pretend that they went through the same schooling as other aggies...

But just the same... It's his personal property, and it's his to sell if he wants to. Just because it's sentimental to the vast majority of you, and understandably so, it doesn't mean that it carries the same sentimental value for this guy.

I'm not supporting or complaining about his actions--I really don't give a damn--but I'm just saying, from an unbiased point of view, a person's personal property is theirs to do with as they please, regardless of how much whatever they please pisses you off.
Finest_First
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ghorn,

" From the inside looking out .... ", never mind. You just don't get it.

And by the way, one of your fellow sips was the high bidder at the time.

Cypress Ag
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Rudy you have gotta be the biggest smart a** on Texags. I'm getting the feeling your the one who's panties are in a bind. Obviously there are bigger issues in the world, but your still here smarting off so I guess you don't like to take your own advice. As an Aggie I can't stand that somebody would sell their ring. That's my opinion, I left it and moved on. How about you try taking some advice for your self and do the same.

Horn, nobody said he couldn't do what he wanted with it by right of ownership. All anybody is saying is that we are trying to discourage it. You sound just like the Dixie Chicks and their complaints about how it's a free country they can say what they want. However the whole time they (and you as well in this situation) seem to forget that the reverse is true and we don't have to like it or support it. THAT is our right.

[This message has been edited by AggieJ2003 (edited 4/10/2003 2:22a).]
43-17,21-7,50-20
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Oh my gosh, and you guys wonder why outsiders view A&M as a cult. You guys are ready to lynch this guy because he is selling his college ring. I know the ring is a massive deal to aggy and is considered a badge of honor, but come on. Do you think people who go to other colleges don't work hard for their rings? Believe is or not, some people are secure enough not to have to display their school ring.
howdyyall
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Howdy, yal'l!

I's jes readin this 'ere post, and I's a-crossed and sore at that ol' houn' dog. Ya see, I should-a dang-well thought-a that muhself an been savin' myself a lossa trouble. This the deal: jes bout a year ago, I was a fightin Texes Aggie who done right by this institutien an' earning ma degree. And armed with such a positien, I's a goin to look for ma carear. So there I go, a-meetin' with the nice folks down at the sanitation department for a job. Well, as all you former Aggies know, the sanitation department jes full a Aggie grads, jes like me, so I thanks to muhself, "heck, Howdy. If'n they's all Aggies, you shore ain't a need no French-sounded 'resume'" Jes shows em ya dang ring. It bein the finest exampulary symbolism of the power and pride a Aggie-land. Well, I done stroll in there and showed em my ring and tole em that I earned it more than most people seein as how I spent 8 years to get it. I'll wrap on up this story to say, I aint got tha job, no way, no how. And thas AFTER I done showed em my ring, just like this fine feller on ebay says I coulda. So I was a bitter ana angry and I chucked the derned thing into the treatment pool. I knows, I knows, it was a terrible degradin and wrong thang ta a done, but I's a got a temper worse 'en a big bull sheep thas been awoke in the middle of a cold night. Tha dern point, if I's a suppose there otter be, is I din git a gol dang nickel for my ring, but i done lost it jes the same. I's been ashamed and unemployed since. And the worst part is tha whole Aggie fightin nation done turn aginst me. See, I come to find out, the sewer boys a-happen to see me chuck ma rang into grime, and derned if they ain't connected up upon high with the Ring Office, who done put on they's scuba gear an fishin out ma rang from the gunk, tracken me down with they high technology surveillance technology and posted my name on another board. Morel of a this story is simple an it's a plain: if you dare disrespectful of the sacred ring you done earned with hard-earned workin' and even if a your real mad about the mythicalical powers a this ring bein just a bunch of hogwash, don throws it into no sewers - thas the first place they's gonna look. At leas' on ebay you get yesself some moneys. WHOOOUP!
Na Zdraví 87
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howdyall!!??
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Glad you have so much time on your hands loser.

see ya!

[This message has been edited by el presidente (edited 4/10/2003 12:08p).]
Cypress Ag
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Apparently the moderators have left the building and any idiot with a keyboard and an un-original thought can now post at texags.
DACOLEII
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that probably took an hour to write...what a dork
Washburne
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AggieJ2003, that policy went in place a *long* time ago.
Cowtown Raider
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howdyyall;

Pedestrian prose. And it's boring.

Cowtown

Finest_First
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When I started this thread, I didn't expect it to turn into a " IDIOT ALERT " thread .......

I missed that one, didn't I ?

Amazing how Idiotic some of these posts are ....

ctrl+alt+del
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You what would really suck? If an Ag didn't think and act like every other Ag. It would just be TERRIBLE if someone decided that he wanted to sell his Aggie ring! Is this America? The mentality of some of you is nothing short of amazing. Most of my friends are Aggies and each of them has earned an Aggie ring. However not ONE of my friends wears his/her ring and a couple have even lost them. They have made NO attempt at replacing them because it is just not a priority to spend that kind of money on something thye didn't really wear to begin with. You can't lose your education, only material objects.

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Finest_First
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Did you read the ad on eBay ? My biggest 'gripe' is the wording of the ad. And the arrogance. I still think this is some kind of a " joke ad ".

Am I the only one not getting it ? Someone fill me in .......
Silvertaps
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Most of my friends are Aggies and each of them has earned an Aggie ring. However not ONE of my friends wears his/her ring and a couple have even lost them. They have made NO attempt at replacing them because it is just not a priority to spend that kind of money on something thye didn't really wear to begin with.

Your few Aggie friends don't represent the whole Aggie population...the Aggie ring is important to most of us.

Some of you are missing the point here. Although I'm not happy to see anyone sell their Aggie ring on e-bay, I normally don't get too upset about it. What seperates this from others is the fact that:

1) He just received the ring the privious week.

2) His "sales pitch" he left on the e-bay board. Click on the link and read it for yourself...it's a little below the belt for those who EARNED their ring.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2627254176&category=10297

[This message has been edited by Silvertaps (edited 4/12/2003 11:29a).]
Aggie1
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ArkyAg... I bought one in '65, another in '69 (sweetheart) and another in '69 to replace one lost in a lake... I paid full price for all three (over $300) and the Former Students Association paid nothing... So far as I know they never have and never will (with the exception perhaps of a "special case"...)... In fact, I don't know how they got so involved with the senior rings to begin with?? It is a University thing. We used to apply for them and buy them at the Coke Building... Former Students Association had nothing to do with it...
Finest_First
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http://search.ebay.com/search/search.dll?MfcISAPICommand=GetResult&SortProperty=MetaEndSort&ht=1&query=texas+a%26m+ring

Crazy !
Finest_First
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[ttt]

Prediction for Sunday's BB Game :

Ags 10
osu 4

 
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