CM Rejected my PIN... does this happen a lot.??????

[Lorilais_mommie]

ok so here what happen..

My younger sister and i were staning is line to look at 3 CM's trading books..
I found this cinderella pin that i thought my daughter would like, so i traded for it..
We moved on the the next book and there was the perfect pin with all the princesses on it... I knew my daughter would rather have this pin and i was going to trade the perivous cindrella pin for it..
I handed the cindrella pin to the CM she looked at for a little bit, and asked me if i had a Non-damaged pin
I went .. she showed me a VERY small chip in the paint...
We are talking smaller then period at the end of my sentence . <<<<< smaller then that

I was a little peeved, as i pulled a differnt pin off my lanyard..
I still don't understand why this happened????
I would understand if it was their own personal book, but im sure it was not b/c another lady asked if the pins where their's and the CM said no, they are not allowed to trade personal pins on the job..

I've been going through our pins cleaning out which ones are tradable and which are not.. Most look tradable to to me.. ( we take pretty good care of our pins) but i'd hate this to happen to my daughter who is now old enough to trade by herself..

Should i worry about this or was it just a one time thing?

 

[Raenstoirm]

That has never happened to me. It seems odd if the damage was not severe. I will say though you can only trade 2 pins per book or board (i did discover that the hard way!)

 

[d1gitman]

not sure what the reason is at all. seems silly that they let you trade for a pin taht had the tiny damage, but then right away wouldn't take it back. sounds weird to me.

 

[vicki_c]

I thought CMs were pretty much required to accept all pins in trade - even ones that collectors call scrappers, so I can't see that they could reject your "damaged" pin, esp. that you just received from another CM a minute before.

What was the end result - did they take it? I'm almost wondering if it was some kind of bad joke?

There are official pin trading rules for CMs - I've seen them posted here. I can't find it right now, but here's an excerpt from an old AllEars article on pin trading:


Any metal Disney Pin can be traded with a cast member! These pins are described as cloisonne type pins. They typically have a clasp backing. Buttons are not available to trade with Cast Members. Buttons typically have the safety pin attachment on the back.

You make one for one trades with a Cast Member. The Cast Member can not refuse to trade you as long as you are trading a legitimate Disney pin. Special Cast Member pins are not acceptable for trading with Cast Members. ( Don't worry, if you had one of these, you probably wouldn't want to trade it anyway!)

Remember - not just any ol' pin will do, it MUST be a Disney pin (almost all of these say Disney on the back).

 

[AndyFL]

ok so here what happen..

My younger sister and i were staning is line to look at 3 CM's trading books..
I found this cinderella pin that i thought my daughter would like, so i traded for it..
We moved on the the next book and there was the perfect pin with all the princesses on it... I knew my daughter would rather have this pin and i was going to trade the perivous cindrella pin for it..
I handed the cindrella pin to the CM she looked at for a little bit, and asked me if i had a Non-damaged pin
I went .. she showed me a VERY small chip in the paint...
We are talking smaller then period at the end of my sentence . <<<<< smaller then that

I was a little peeved, as i pulled a differnt pin off my lanyard..
I still don't understand why this happened????
I would understand if it was their own personal book, but im sure it was not b/c another lady asked if the pins where their's and the CM said no, they are not allowed to trade personal pins on the job..

I've been going through our pins cleaning out which ones are tradable and which are not.. Most look tradable to to me.. ( we take pretty good care of our pins) but i'd hate this to happen to my daughter who is now old enough to trade by herself..

Should i worry about this or was it just a one time thing?

I'm probably going to get flamed for this but here goes.....you didn't describe the woman CM who refused to trade but my Wife and I have learned (my wife actually first noticed this) to avoid any female CMs who have super short haircuts. I'm not sure if that tends to mean they are former police or military but they tend to be EXTEMELY strict and pretty unfriendly. If you don't believe me then send one family member through the bag check that has a CM not matching this description and then you go through the line with the short-haired woman and see who gets everything short of a body cavity search.

 

[vicki_c]

That is one of the most ridiculous stereotypes I have ever heard. (and no, I don't have short hair).

 

[d1gitman]

I'm probably going to get flamed for this but here goes.....you didn't describe the woman CM who refused to trade but my Wife and I have learned (my wife actually first noticed this) to avoid any female CMs who have super short haircuts. I'm not sure if that tends to mean they are former police or military but they tend to be EXTEMELY strict and pretty unfriendly. If you don't believe me then send one family member through the bag check that has a CM not matching this description and then you go through the line with the short-haired woman and see who gets everything short of a body cavity search.

no flaming here. just, wow! not sure i'd be quite ready to throw that stereotype on the grill.

 

[loveysbydesign]

I'm probably going to get flamed for this but here goes.....you didn't describe the woman CM who refused to trade but my Wife and I have learned (my wife actually first noticed this) to avoid any female CMs who have super short haircuts. I'm not sure if that tends to mean they are former police or military but they tend to be EXTEMELY strict and pretty unfriendly. If you don't believe me then send one family member through the bag check that has a CM not matching this description and then you go through the line with the short-haired woman and see who gets everything short of a body cavity search.

Haha...that's sounds pretty funny. Maybe we'll have to try that next time or not.

 

[bumbershoot]

Did you tell her that you had just gotten this from a CM? Did you go back to the CM that had given it to you and let him/her know what happened?

 

[AndyFL]

no flaming here. just, wow! not sure i'd be quite ready to throw that stereotype on the grill.

I'm sure it's not true in every case and didn't intend for it to be taken that way and like I said...my WIFE was the one to point this out to me.

 

[kmaclou]

I'm probably going to get flamed for this but here goes.....you didn't describe the woman CM who refused to trade but my Wife and I have learned (my wife actually first noticed this) to avoid any female CMs who have super short haircuts. I'm not sure if that tends to mean they are former police or military but they tend to be EXTEMELY strict and pretty unfriendly. If you don't believe me then send one family member through the bag check that has a CM not matching this description and then you go through the line with the short-haired woman and see who gets everything short of a body cavity search.

I'm sorry. I couldn't disagree more with this. When we were in WDW for our wedding/honeymoon one of the nicest CMs we met was a short-haired lady security officer in the MK checking bags. She actually spent a lot of time with us after she checked out bags to ask about our wedding (we had the wedding ears and just married shirts on), made sure we had our buttons and gave us all sorts of fun tips.

To the OP, maybe you just had a CM who didn't exactly understand the pin-trading process.

 

[KellyNY]

I'm probably going to get flamed for this but here goes.....you didn't describe the woman CM who refused to trade but my Wife and I have learned (my wife actually first noticed this) to avoid any female CMs who have super short haircuts. I'm not sure if that tends to mean they are former police or military but they tend to be EXTEMELY strict and pretty unfriendly. If you don't believe me then send one family member through the bag check that has a CM not matching this description and then you go through the line with the short-haired woman and see who gets everything short of a body cavity search.

Please tell me it was a joke, otherwise it is prejudice.

 

[Feralpeg]

I just spoke to my sister who is a WDW CM. She said that should not have happened. The pins do not belong to the CMs. They get them from Disney for the purpose of trading with guests. If any pin they receive has a problem, they simply turn it in and get another. At no time should they upset the guest by rejecting a pin.

She said the only time she ever questions a pin is when she recognizes one of the professional pin traders. They tend to try to pass off non-Disney pins for pins they later sell.

The CM was in the wrong.

 

[Lorilais_mommie]

I thought CMs were pretty much required to accept all pins in trade - even ones that collectors call scrappers, so I can't see that they could reject your "damaged" pin, esp. that you just received from another CM a minute before.

What was the end result - did they take it?

I ended up giving up a different pin..

we still own the damaged pin...
I have not traded it b/c i thought it was deemed untradable
here is a pic of it.. I couldn't get the chip to show up in the pic (that's how small it is)
It's on the right edge of the blue skirt, about 1/2 way down.

:::Cindrella one :::

 

[pioneer89]

I don't trade pins, so have no idea.

I've seen CMs with the pins around the neck (Lanyard?) and know they trade, but I've never seen a CM with a book. I have seen normal people at DTD with books, but I assumed that they were just everyday folk. Anyone have any more details on CMs with pin books?

 

[Lorilais_mommie]

Did you tell her that you had just gotten this from a CM? Did you go back to the CM that had given it to you and let him/her know what happened?

I did and she said she still could not accept it..

As for short hair women...

This women was long Blonde hair Blue eyes.. Very pretty..
I kinda reminded me of barbie, which make the whole thing kinda funny..
maybe she was jelous of cinderella!

 

[d1gitman]

I'm sure it's not true in every case and didn't intend for it to be taken that way and like I said...my WIFE was the one to point this out to me.

is your wife short or long haired?

 

[t_catt11]

My entire family has traded pins on three different vacations, including this year. The only time we ever had a trade rejected was in the first year, as my son tried to trade away a pin he'd bought at the Rainforest Cafe - it was not an official Disney pin.

As a matter of fact, we have more than once exchanged a scratched/dinged pin for a duplicate in better shape, and the CMs ahev always seemed happy to do it - they have always WANTED us to be happy with the pin we got from them.

 

[FigNewton]

The official rules DO say that pins should be in good undamaged condition. That's not to say the pin was worth rejection because I honestly can't see it well enough in the picture on my phone. I can't verify or deny that CMs actively switch out damaged pins, but I've seen plenty of damaged pins on lanyards before, so I can't help to be happy to hear that damaged pins do
get rejected some times.

 

[skater]

I don't think this should have happened and its not normal.


I will say, that one time a CM at Wilderness Lodge accused my DS of taking a pin from her book. He had been looking at them and then, traded one with her when she asked him to put back the one he'd "taken." He was real little at the time and it hurt his feelings. We walked away, and later she found us and apologized - she counted them and realized they were all there. It was a little heartbreaking.