I am sitting here going through what seems

[NHMickey]

like a million pins and am getting rid of some... But as I am looking at them all and putting them in books I got to wondering...

How many of these did I think would have made super traders....

It brings me to ask...

How many pins in your book do you have that you thought... Now this is going to be HOT!!! and no one asks about it...

What pin is it for you?

For me it is the Puppet Pins from the first EPCOT pin event. I thought the Mickey with Figment would do rather well... Yup was I wrong.

 

[Dom13]

I thought the Mickey and Goofy pin trading one from the 2001 event would be hot. About the only kind of burn I'd get from that one would be freezer burn!

 

[Mickey527]

Nat and Dom,
I have both of those pins too.
Next time we see each other we can trade them just so we can say we got rid of one. No one has to know we traded for the same pin.
then because we traded them for "something" they will go up in value because someone wanted it! Peggie

 

[sgtslovak]

I thought the Pegasus pin from last September's pin event would be hot. NOT! Going back further, the Cinderella Coach pin & the Splash Mtn. E-Ticket pin-you couldn't even give 'em away.
Chris

 

[Figment2]

POM's, need I say more.

 

[EpcotKilterFan]

Originally posted by sgtslovak
I thought the Pegasus pin from last September's pin event would be hot. NOT! Going back further, the Cinderella Coach pin & the Splash Mtn. E-Ticket pin-you couldn't even give 'em away.
Chris

Isn't that the truth... I traded a Pizza for a Splash Mtn E-ticket... and finally put it on a lanyard.

Dinosaur Gertie... need I say more

Debbie

 

[Towncrier]

The GIANT pin from the very first 7-day Eastern Caribbean cruise of the Disney Magic. I don't know what possessed me to purchase 1% of the 4000 pins produced, but I did. Eventually I managed to sell or trade all of them, but I learned a valuable lesson. You just never know what pins people will want.

 

[Mickey527]

Follow me around WDW. When I buy a bunch of pins DON"T BUY THEM!!!.
I have tons of pins I thought would be big traders and no one wants them. Opening Day of Atlantis LE 1000. I had a large group with me and I bought 10 of them.


Debbie said "I traded a Pizza for a Splash Mtn E-ticket... and finally put it on a lanyard." You put a pizza on a lanyard??? I think I will follow you around. Peggie

 

[ScottakaMickey]

Well, I don't particularly have a pin, but I will say that any extra pin purchased today is really a non-trader. Meaning, if you don't trade it within a very short time after getting it, then it becomes harder and harder to trade. I think that this is due to the fact that Disney is putting out way too many pins. Having a lot of older pins don't really seem to have any interest, people just want whats come out recently. I can't trade for any CA pins anymore because I am not buying extras of the new releases at WDW and nobody in CA wants 2 or 3 year old WDW pins.

I don't think pin trading is dead, yet, but its slowly getting that way. If you go to an event, watch where the trading occurs. Most people will want you to trade for that days event pins, even though its an LE 1000 and you are trying to get an LE 3500. Or they will only trade DCL AC pins for other DCL AC pins, or Surprise pins for other Surprise pins. I can understand that thought, but it just makes trading harder and more frustrating.

Yes, I know, there are still traders out there that enjoy trading to trade and those are fun, but you see it less and less.

The pin I have the most of is the 2001 Ariel POM.