DisneyDon1
Dis Dad's Club Member #591
- Joined
- Nov 27, 2005
Are there any Pintrading Disdads.
cool pins
We have never done Pin Trading.
However, I think this is a great activity for our next trip.
We are always looking for something new to do.
Anyone got any tips on how to start? Where should I get our Lanyards, starting set of pins, etc...?
I hear the E-bay pins aren't legit? How can I tell a legit pin from an E-bay knock off pin? When trading with CM's do I risk getting the E-bay knock offs?
We have never done Pin Trading.
However, I think this is a great activity for our next trip.
We are always looking for something new to do.
Anyone got any tips on how to start? Where should I get our Lanyards, starting set of pins, etc...?
I hear the E-bay pins aren't legit? How can I tell a legit pin from an E-bay knock off pin? When trading with CM's do I risk getting the E-bay knock offs?
We will be trying pin trading for the first time when we go in December. I looked around on eBay and other sites and read up on it out in the DISboards.
http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=2213419
This includes a long list out there of known scrapper sellers and known trusted sellers on eBay. The problem I ran into was that most of the sellers I was looking at who were currently selling were not on either list.
I decided that rather than take a chance on scrappers (not that I care for my kids collections but more that I don't want to keep them running into circulation in the parks) I would pay a bit more and order from one of the online storefronts believed to be selling actual pins. We paid a bit more ($1.50 a pin versus about $1 on eBay) and ordered from http://www.mousepinsonline.com. We bought a grab bag of 60 and got absolutely no repeats. There are some my kids will keep up front and some they are willing to trade away - which is probably how it should be when they are getting started.
We'll see how it goes when we take them with us in December.
Very cool - I never heard of that sight before.
You are sure mousepinsonline is 100% legit pins?