For all of you who think buy scrappers for trading is harmless.....

[santadog]

Man gets year in plot to sell fake Disney pins

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[MaterializedHaunt]

Thank you so much for posting this.

This is great news! Now I can only hope that those other scrappers on eBay see this! It makes me want to go to each of those 25/50/100 pin sellers and just mail them this article out of the kindness of my heart. Maybe change will eventually happen!

I think its funny how he says he didn't mean to harm anyone...(just steal their money)

All in all, there is tens of thousands of pins not being circulated around eBay and ultimatly Disney Parks! Lets hope people spread the word and these scrapper sells open their eyes!

- MaterializedHaunt

 

[Mouse Pins]

We are avid pin traders (so avid that we wrote a book onit) The last time my family was in WDW, every Cast Member lanyard we saw was loaded with the same pins. I got suspicious when I saw the 6th mickey easter egg pin (it was August) on consecutive lanyards. I started making a list of pins that I didnt want my kids trading for as even though they looked legit, it was just way too fishy.

Sure enough when I checked on line I found pin sites in China that were selling bulk lots of the exact same pins. My kids were devastated that they had traded for fake pins and every trade they made after that, they were suspicious of every HM pin they saw.

Other than the repetition of certain pins, it was impossible to tell what was real and what was not. This was causing a serious crisis for my pin trading family.

Finally my daughter shrugged her shoulders and said, its not like we care if its valuable or not. We trade for them because we like them.

I think this is the real damage that the scrapper market has caused pin trading. There are so many scrappers out there that its almost impossible to avoid them and even though we dont plan on reselling our 2500+ pin collection anytime soon, everytime I look at our pin wall I wonder which ones are legit and which are fake, even though they were traded for in the parks.

I guess the only way we can really be sure is to pay full pop from a Disney retail location!

 

[jonstone]

I think, what almost annoys me more than anything is the attorney's comments.
He seems to think the are cheap bits of metal that Disney just give away.... He hasn't seen how much of our hard earned money goes into collecting these...

I am glad the judge did a lot more than the attorney ever would...