Disney Pins. Have you ever gotten any on eBay that were fakes?

[DLBDS]

Went to PinPics and learned that the only way to guarantee you get an authentic Disney pin is to get it directly through Disney. I had no idea! I thought if the pin wasn't a Sedesma/Euro pin then it was good. I'm a newbie at this. I've won several auctions on eBay recently for almost 100 pins total (auctions were pin lots). Now, I'm worried that some of them are fakes. I've checked 5 pins at PinPics and the back stamps just aren't matching up. Then I realized that the same pin has been released more than once. I need to still see if I can find these pins on there. The pins are the 3 ghosts from the HM and 2 Tinkerbell pins. The links to them are below. Has anyone else been able to prove that the pins they recieved from eBay were fakes? I'm thinking I should stop buying from there. Too risky for me. I'm worried I've been scammed. All sellers had 100% feedback rating.

Ezra:
http://www.pinpics.com/cgi-bin/group.cgi?group=989&pin=37467

Gus:
http://www.pinpics.com/cgi-bin/group.cgi?group=989&pin=37466

Phineas:
http://www.pinpics.com/cgi-bin/group.cgi?group=989&pin=37464

Tinkerbell:
http://www.pinpics.com/cgi-bin/group.cgi?group=118&pin=41180

Tinkerbell (looks like exact same pin to me?!):
http://www.pinpics.com/cgi-bin/group.cgi?group=118&pin=51415

Tinkerbell:
http://www.pinpics.com/cgi-bin/group.cgi?group=118&pin=41828

Tinkerbell (same pin?!):
http://www.pinpics.com/cgi-bin/group.cgi?group=118&pin=51416

I'm not getting it. My pins all look like they have '2007' on them. It's really hard to tell though even with a magnifying glass.

 

[Nancy]

I've bought a lot on E-bay but not recently. Mine are all good except for a few I bought that I knew were not official pins, but I got anyway because I liked them. I'm sure you get some dishonest sellers, but if they have all good feedback I wouldn't be too nervous.

 

[becka]

We have bought pins on Ebay before (always people with high positive ratings) and we have never gotten a fake unless like the pp said we knew in advance that it was and we still wanted it.

 

[Stitchfans]

I have bought quite a bit of pins from sellers on Ebay. Never checked if they where fake. Should of.

 

[WDWAurora]

The 2 tinks that look the same to you are, in essence. The second link is a second batch, so to speak. The fronts are identical, with the back stamp indicating which "lot" it was. Things like this aren't important to the average collector, but are important to some collectors.

I guess I'm not sure what the question is. The general rule of trading though, is that as long as it says Disney on the back and came with a Mickey head backer (different if you use the locking backs) it is good to trade. Are you buying to trade or what?

 

[DLBDS]

The 2 tinks that look the same to you are, in essence. The second link is a second batch, so to speak. The fronts are identical, with the back stamp indicating which "lot" it was. Things like this aren't important to the average collector, but are important to some collectors.

I guess I'm not sure what the question is. The general rule of trading though, is that as long as it says Disney on the back and came with a Mickey head backer (different if you use the locking backs) it is good to trade. Are you buying to trade or what?

This is the page that started my worrying:
http://www.dizpins.com/pinventory/scrappers.htm

"Scrappers are pins that were made in the factories in China over the allotment made by Disney. Are they a Disney pin? Yes they are.. but they are pins over and above the allotment "ordered" by Disney. So in essence, they could be called illegally made Disney Pins. Sometimes when the "second illegal run" of the pin is done, there are differences noted, but it can only be known comparing two pins side by side. These pins can also be classified as counterfeits."

With the pins above, it's the date stamp that has me concerned. Mine all look like 2007. I can't find my pins on PinPics with this date. It doesn't mean they weren't made though....I don't think. I'm assuming that maybe they haven't been listed/posted yet. To answer your question...I'm buying the pins for my DD10 for Christmas. I want to give her 100 pins on Christmas Day. She has about 30 that she's purchased/traded for at WDW. We're going to WDW in Oct. and I told her that I was going to get her some pins on eBay to trade...which I've already done . I just picked out some in the lots that I knew she wouldn't want to keep and I'll give her the rest at Xmas. I would feel really bad if a CM refused one of her pins because it was a fake. It would be my fault. I would say that over half of the pins I've purchased on eBay are new on either the black hang cards or in original wrappers from the Disney Store (33 of these). I'm pretty confident that these are what they appear to be. No worries. It's just the ones that were loose, Cast Lanyard and/or Hidden Mickey Pins that I'm worried about. Although, when you think about it, anyone can get one of those hang cards and attach a fake pin to it. Well, you guys have eased my mind a bit. Thanks for that!