Did I get hosed?

[disneyorbust]

Just came back from a quick trip and just started pin trading/collecting. It's fun! Anyway, I collect pins from all the resorts I've stayed at plus anything special like 100 years of magic etc. I was there for the 25th anniversary and have been looking for a pin from that. No luck anywhere but I found a trader at Downtown Disney who wouldn't trade anything from me but said I could buy him a pin and then he'd give me the 25th pin he had. So I bought him a $10.50 collector pin. I guess it didn't matter to me because I really wanted the 25th anniversary pin, but I wanted to know if that sounded "right".

 

[daber]

Sounds good to me. It was if you were able to buy the pin off the rack for $10.50 and the pin hasn't been sold for 5 years. If you felt it was worth $10.50, you did fine. If you felt it was worth more, you did great. If you felt it was only worth $6, then you got hosed. Welcome to the wacky world of pin trading. Just remember the cardnial rule.......Have fun.

 

[disneyboysmousehouse]

I agree with Daber. I do alot of pin trading at WDW Pin Traders and many times am approached by guests just getting started or curious about pins. Typically they find something in my book, but have little or literally nothing to trade for. When this happens, I politely suggest that they could buy a pin currently being sold that I would be happy to trade for. This practice is done frequently by me and other traders. I consider myself a fair trader and will ask them to buy a comparibly priced/valued pin in trade. Again, as long as you and the other trader are happy....that's what counts! Happy trading.

Your pin pal....Disneyboy

 

[Swamp_Fox]

Personally as a rule I do not buy someone a pin just so I can get a particular pin no matter how bad I want it. I feel I'm being "sharked" when I have to buy someone a pin to trade. I also refuse to have someone offer to buy a pin for me to make the trade, there's always other options.

Larry

 

[daber]

Larry,
I politely disagree with you in this instance. There aren't "always other options". Disneyorbust stated they were just starting pin collecting, so probably has little or no traders and what traders they have were probably just purchased during the current trip. So the trade offered makes sense for Disneyorbust. If they were being "sharked", Mr. Shark could proably buy it off the rack anyway, unless they are "known" by the CMs to have filled their daily pin buying quota.

 

[Swamp_Fox]

Yes I did read that Disneyorbust had just started trading and probably had only a few trader's available. I also never said they were being "sharked" I simply stated thats how "I" feel when a situition like this happens to me. I tend to believe that everyone is a fair trader, but sharks happen. Sometimes when I trade there comes a time I make a trade that's not fair to me but it will make the other party happy so I do it, afterall their only hunks of pretty painted metal. As for other options there's always another option

Larry

 

[we3luvdisney]

It's a shame, I have an extra 25th anniversary pin that I would have traded for anything Tinker Bell or villian/bad guy-person.

 

[Fiver]

I was also at WDW at DD one night when I saw a pin in this man's book that I really wanted. It was the CM opening Tokyo Disneysea pin. He told me to buy him any rack pin for him and that he would trade it with me. Thanks to him I got my HG! I sat around and watched him trade with many other people. He had one book to trade with kids and it was full of really nice pins. He would trade any pin from the child for one of his. Thanks to him many kids got some nice pins that they normally wouldnt get. I had tried to get my HG from several people. They either wanted lots of my pins or werent interested in what I had. He was one of the nicest and fairest traders down there that night. After dealing with several sharks, it was refreshing to meet him!


Fiver

 

[disneyorbust]

Thanks everyone. I do feel good about it, but was just curious. Now I have to go check out my DD lanyard when she's sleeping to see what she has (!)