Help for New Pin Traders

[olydizknee]

I'm not sure, but I would think that the price of the framed sets would be higher than unframed. I have been able to find some multi-pin sets on disney shopping that were reasonably priced.

Please do not dismantle any framed pin sets to trade pins with. I would rather buy the framed set from you or trade you pins for your set. You are throwing money away doing that. Usually Framed sets fetch a higher purchase price because of the framing.

Thank you for your quick responses. I've seen the Jessica Rabbit pin sets on DisneyShopping and the one set is around 20 dollars for five pins. If I could break the set up, it is around 4 dollars a pin versus the cost of pins in the park. I'm trying to figure out an economical way to get the kids into pin trading.

 

[AKLforever]

I just bought this pin from this site
The pin I bought is the animal kingdom lodge pin, the 20$ one. Its 20$ on the other site too

http://www.********************/
I dont know why, but when I place the link, it blocks it like that.
But its magical mountain dot net, no space between magical and mountain

Do you know if this is a good site? And if thats a real pin?
I know its a bit late to ask now, but I just had to ask.
This will be the 1st pin I ever buy, and Im sure not the last.

Also, what do you think of THIS site too

 

[WDWRocksMySocks]

This is a great thread! I just recently got into pin trading and I was just wondering if there was a better place to get trader pins. I've always been a bit leery on buying lots on e-Bay. I have bought single pins and I haven't noticed anything peculiar about them...yet. I have started looking at individuals who are selling them, as opposed to pin stores. I had one negative experience where I received a bad monorail pin. The seller was great and did send me a different pin, but still...it left a bad taste in my mouth.

So, other than on-site is there really a good place to buy traders?

 

[arielchickenofthesea]

Be very careful about getting involved in this hobby! I have been buying and trading pins for a year and a half and I am totally addicted. I now have well over 2500 pins in my collection and many dupes and traders. I don't even want to tell you how much this *little* hobby of mine has cost me, let's just say I have spent anywhere from .99 to over $400.00 for a single pin! It adds up. Since I do not live near the Parks and tho we do go to DL sometimes 3 times per year and WDW once per year, I end up bidding and buying for most of my desired collectibles on eBay. I am finally starting to drift away from buying. I need to start selling. LOL!

I do trade on my trips but find that most of the really good traders and ALL the Cast Lanyard pins are gone just after the Park (DL) opens. The pin sharks there grab up everything and then by the time we get there, all I find is a bunch of booster set pins or cheap stuff on the CMs lanyards. So trading for me is not all that much fun.

I take a full pinbag with me and often I will find a few good trades with other traders, but mostly I give pins away to kids. If I am meeting friends at the Park, I will usually let them go through my bag and pick out 5 pins they want and give them to them. I also give pins to CMs as a gift or a thank you. I still can't believe how many I have even after doing that for many visits.

The kids, CMs and my friends just love these little presents and I love doing it. I am not going to do some jacked-up trade with a pin shark just to get what I want and give them more than I know the pin is worth. It is more fun to give them to kids or CMs.

I had one little girl at the traders meet look through my book and find a great LE, the Lady and the Tramp Bella Note scene with Stitch, it was one of my dupes and bless her heart she had very little to trade, so I gave it to her. Why not? She was beaming and I was trying to find a new home for the pin anyway...

To me pin trading and collecting should be fun, not like the sharks that try to get everything good for themselves or to sell on eBay. When it becomes an obsession like the Power Traders you see sitting out in DtD with their 10 bags and they are there EVERY day like clockwork, it is time to get a life. I am trying to just get BACK to the point where we would pick up pins on each of our trips as a memento of that particular trip. That is how it started for me. Then I HAD to have ALL the pins in that character or that subject and it became an obsession to get EVERY single pin of B&tB. I am almost there, but I don't care anymore. I am tired of trying to track down every pin I want. I want it to be fun again. The only way I can do that is to just hang onto whay I really, really like and get those memento pins and STAY AWAY FROM eBay!!!!

I am not too interested in selling on ebay with all the new policy changes, and I want to stay away from eBay anyway so maybe I should list them here at the DIS pin board. I don't know if many people get burned selling them here. I just want to find homes for LOTS of pins I don't want or need anymore.

I have collected so many different subjects that I have more pins than I need. I started with Tinkerbell, have collected Mickey and Minnie, Bambi, Park pins, attraction pins, Princesses, Pooh, Eeyore, Chip and Dale, anything with a photo of Walt and I have been building my Goofy collection. It goes on and on.

I have a wonderful collection of Very Rare LE pins in lots of categories. These are the ones that I have spent 100.00 and up for. That is a beautiful collection that I will keep. But my biggest collections are Beauty and the Beast/Belle and the Little mermaid/Ariel and the Pins with Walt Disney on them. Those collections I will keep for a very long time. My Beauty and the Beast collection is not just pins, but every figurine, litho, sericel, plush, book, movie, CD, toy, etc...etc...they made on the subject.

I also collect Disney memorabilia of any sort that I like. My house is a friggen Disney museum. LOL! It really is. Walls covered with framed Pin sets, lithos, plates, every surface has WDCC and Lenox and other figurines and snowglobes...oh the snowglobes...that is a whole nother story! I have Disney bedding, and towels...you name it...it is in my house. I love Disney!

But the biggest thing is the pins...I need to start to clear out some of the pins. I have some really great pins too.
Does anyone have any experience selling pins here on the DIS selling board? If so, let me know and I will maybe start listing my pins there.

I always found for big trader lots, eBay was the way to go. Just be careful as has been reiterated over and over here on this thread and the other long threads about pin trading. It can become a problem if you let it. Keep it fun!

 

[arielchickenofthesea]

Can framed pin sets, like those on DisneyShopping, be dismantled and traded? I'm traveling with a 12 and 13 year old in August and they want to start pin trading. Any other suggestions would be appreciated!

TIA!

They can, but why would you dismantle a set that cost a LOT of $$$ to trade the pins away. The framed pin sets are worth more as a framed set. I have a few of the pins from framed sets that I bought because they fit in the category I wanted, but I would rather the set be whole. It becomes worthless as a collectible, dismantled. I hate to see pins llike that as traders or for sale on eBay. It is sad to me. I have many framed sets and they are beautiful! They sell very well on eBay for good prices depending on the subject and the edition number. Ot is so easy to find trader lots, why dismantle a framed set that could be worth a LOT? JMHO.

 

[thedeans]

I just purchased some pins and I believe they are tradeable. They have 1988 The Walt Disney Company one the back along with some numbers. On the front they have Disneylad Olympic Team Salute 1988 USA. They all have different characters on them. They have the safety pin insetead of the tac pin. I have been the the Pin Pic website and they are listed there. The only reason I purchased them was so my children would trade them since they don't like them. We have been purchasing pins and if they like them they won't trade them. Then they are upset when they have no pins to trade. What I keep seeing is long as Disney is on the back they are tradeable but I want to make sure before we take them on our trip.

Thanks

 

[Beckysc]

How is Mousepinsonline?

I'm looking to get some pins for my boys to trade on our next trip and mousepins has their grab bag special.

I have three boys and last time, they had 4 pins each to trade, so they kept exchanging those for one's they wanted more. They really enjoyed it, so I was looking to get some more.

On the site, it says that they are good for trading, but I was wondering about other's experience with them.

TIA.

 

[NatalieMT]

I'm hoping to start pin trading on my second trip to WDW in August. I've bought a few pins off ebay that I like and some others to trade. Does anyone know of any other sites where I can pick some up that will ship to the UK?

Also could someone tell me a little about pin trading etiquette, say someone came over and wanted to trade what would happen?

 

[Donald is #1]

I'm hoping to start pin trading on my second trip to WDW in August. I've bought a few pins off ebay that I like and some others to trade. Does anyone know of any other sites where I can pick some up that will ship to the UK?

Also could someone tell me a little about pin trading etiquette, say someone came over and wanted to trade what would happen?

If someone comes over and asks to trade it is entirely up to you on whether you want to trade or not. CM's won;t come up to you to trade. Instead, you need to approach them. A CM with a lanyard of any color except green will always trade with you. When trading with a CM, you pick a pin that you want on their lanyard and then pick one of yours to trade with it. They will always take the trade unless they already have the pin or the pin isn't a Disney pin. The CMs with green lanyards will only trade with kids.

 

[aimeeg]

Can someone explain a little more about scrappers on ebay? I am about to spend about $100 on specific event pins. They are for my four year old. I know she will love them but I do not want to buy fakes. KWIM

 

[NatalieMT]

Many thanks, Donald is #1! That makes things a little clearer!

 

[Charleyann]

Just bought a pin for .99 and got an invoice for it. Shipping is almost $8 to ship one little disney pin! Holy cow , I just won two for .99 and shipping was $2.00 and the shipper paid $1.00 and that was further away.

I know I live in Canada but shipping one pin is not much more then senting a card!

I refused to pay that much. What will ebay do to me?

Charleyann

 

[Mike0828]

Ok, so I'm leaving for my honeymoon in just over a month and we want to go down with pins for trading. Now I've been checking out ebay, 50...100 pin lots, etc... Anybody ever buy these lots off ebay? One of the sellers I'm watching has lots that average out to about $2 per pin, money back guarantee, feedback is good 99.x% with no recent negs/neutrals and he claims no pins are sedesma, euro, propin, etc.., all being tradeable at the parks. Would this be the way to go or should I be looking elsewhere? If so, where?

 

[jessrose18]

I just started buying some pins off of ebay, problem is I now have 30-40 pins that I wouldn't want to trade. I do however, want to wear them to the parks, if someone comes up to you and wants to trade can you say no? I will also buy some random ones so that I have some for the castmember trades, thanks for any help, new to this.

 

[MYFAVISBELLE]

Hello,

I am new to pin collecting and trading. I am a little confused on some of the abbrevations and words used to describe the pins. What is a scrapper? How can I tell the difference? Le is limited edition, what is rack?

I'm have been trying to find several belle pins; with no luck. Where else can I look besides ebay and pinpics?

 

[Mike0828]

Hello,

I am new to pin collecting and trading. I am a little confused on some of the abbrevations and words used to describe the pins. What is a scrapper? How can I tell the difference? Le is limited edition, what is rack?

I'm have been trying to find several belle pins; with no luck. Where else can I look besides ebay and pinpics?

I'll try to help you out a little bit, I've only been collecting pins for 2 years or so but I've picked up some information in that time.

A scrapper pin is basically an unauthorized Disney pin. When the pins are made a mold is created to make the pins for Disney. Then after the desired amount of said pin is made instead of the mold being destroyed it is kept and used again to make more pins that Disney doesn't know about. It's hard to tell the difference at times, depends on the quality of the pin as some can be real good copies. At times the second runs of the pin mold come out with a lesser quality, the back stamp may even have a cloudy look or even the wrong information. I believe pinpics website is helpful for scrapper information.

Rack pins are pins you buy off the store racks at the parks and such.

 

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[jackskellingtonsgirl]

I just started buying some pins off of ebay, problem is I now have 30-40 pins that I wouldn't want to trade. I do however, want to wear them to the parks, if someone comes up to you and wants to trade can you say no? I will also buy some random ones so that I have some for the castmember trades, thanks for any help, new to this.

I have a lanyard full of pirate pins that are not for trade. I wore it to the Pirate & Princess Party last year. For the most part other guests won't ask you to trade, unless they are little kids. Then you can just say that those are pins you are keeping.
My DH has a blue lanyard similar to the ones the cast members wear and we couldn't figure out why so many little kids wanted to trade with him. We finally realized they think the blue lanyard means he wants to trade. It usually happened early in the day when his lanyard was still mostly traders, so he traded with them.

 

[jackskellingtonsgirl]

Hello,

I am new to pin collecting and trading. I am a little confused on some of the abbrevations and words used to describe the pins. What is a scrapper? How can I tell the difference? Le is limited edition, what is rack?

I'm have been trying to find several belle pins; with no luck. Where else can I look besides ebay and pinpics?

A scrapper is a factory "reject". Those pins have weird color variations, or they are crooked, or there is some other flaw that causes them not to meet quality standards. They are supposed to be "scrapped" and melted back down. But a staggering number find their way to eBay.

There are also counterfeits, which are intentional fakes. Those will sometimes feel lighter than the real pins and have very small variations that are hard to notice unless you have a real and a fake pin side by side. Those are the pins where the information on the back will be wrong, or in a different font, or have the word Disney spelled incorrectly, etc. Those pins are cheap knock-offs, like a fake Coach bag or whatever. EBay sellers buy them from Chinese vendors for pennies apiece and then sell them in huge lots. Those are the pins you see where it is the exact same 10 or 15 designs in hundreds and hundreds of auctions. Be sure to look at the sellers "Completed items" and ask yourself where those people got hundreds of copies of the exact same pin design.

A rack pin is an "open edition" pin that can be found fairly easily on racks around the parks. They can also usually be mail ordered through the Disney pin site www.odpt.com A limited edition pin will have a set number of copies and will not usually be available for mail order.

Obviously the listings on eBay change every day, so the Belle pins you are interested in may eventually show up there. Buyer beware, of course.

 

[demeritts1229]

Hi there...
We just bought several "multi pin" sets at the Disney Store for 1/2 price. The sets were $14.50, each set has 3-5 pins and at half off, it was $7.25 a set or $1.45-$2.42 per pin. My husband is an enthusiastic collector and already has a good "stash" of pins for our December trip.
Good Luck and have fun!!