is 5 pins ok?

[Betner]

are 5 pins ok to start with?

 

[Parkhopper]

Everyone has to start somewhere, but I think you may find very quickly that you wish you had more than 5 pins.

Suzi

 

[pixiewings71]

Ok weird, I had a reply that said......
Our family of 4 can easily trade 100 pins in just 3-4 days so I would say that 5 is not quite enough.

 

[webbmom]

My kids can go through 5 pins in about 5 minutes. We normally go with at least 100 for them.

How does one aquire these 100 pins to go and trade? We went in March and became addicted to pin trading. We are returning in June and would love to trade some more. Thanks

 

[pixiewings71]

Follow the link in my signature to find a thread all about eBay and pins. It should help you find 100 traders.

 

[vway2552]

are 5 pins ok to start with?

sure its ok, but you may find very quickly that you want to trade for a pin, but want to keep all the ones you have. You can try it at first, but probably will end up buying more if pin trading is your thing!!

 

[bweagle]

I have 21 for each kid now for our upcoming 10 day trip and think I probably need to get more. It's a toss up for me though because thus is our first trip trading and I don't want to be stuck with a bunch of pins.

 

[PhantomVirus]

2 kids 230 pins - the TSA loved us - we traded all week long. the thing to remember is that if you go down with 100 pins you will probably come home with 120-130 after purchasing pins in the park - it's really addicting and fun.

We have been trading a year now and I have about 900 pins - 500 or so are FIGMENT, 100 - 150 Mickey same for Tinker, 50 Halloween and 18 Hanukkahs - the hardest thing is deciding were to concentrate your trading!


We also have near 150 'traders' for cast lanyards so they add up pretty fast ;-)

Also - you should try to pick up cheaper trading quality cast lanyads type pins - do NOT trade a $6-$14 dollar pin for a cast lanyard or a cheap pin. We made that mistake the 1st year we went to WDW and a CM said - why not buy the starter sets where you get 6-8 pins for $30-35 (like $4-5 a pin) and save $. We had already spent a lot of $ on open rack pins we were trading for lanyard stuff - but we were totally new and had no clue.