Is The Pin Trading Buzz I Hear True?

[elizabethswan]

I also really doubt they can police the scrappers.

Think about it.. Is a CM really going to refuse to trade with a little 3 or 4 year old girl all decked out in her princess costume??

Also I can see all the complaints...
"I just got this pin from the CM over there, and now your telling me I can trade it to you??"
"How was I to know its a fake?"
" how is my child to know it was a fake?"
It's opens disney up to WAY to much bad press.


My family have been trading for years.. In fact my sister and attended the "classes" they had at DL for kids.
After many years of trading here are my tips...


The way my family trades:
1. We have a small pin bag. (About the size of an iPad mini.)
holds about 75 pins (25 each page)
After years of holding 3-4 lanyards why everyone went on rides. A "family" Bag makes more since

2. At home The kids go through their pins and give me all their traders
The rest stay at home..

3. 90% of the time we trade with CM.. Any pins my kids really want to keep, go into a small ziplock I keep in our backpack.
Every now and again little kids will see us trading and ask to trade too.
We always let them pick whatever they want out of our pin traders bag and accept any pin they give us.
I can always trade it to a CM later..

----I'm sorry I'm not as cold as some. I can not tell a child thier pin is a scrapper and won't trade them our nice cinderella pin. I really don't see a CM doing that either!
I had soooo many parents look at me and say "are you sure?" Just in amazement that we would even trade.
The




------------------------- little feel good story ---------------

One time in Epcot a little girl wanted a pin I knew for a fact was a $15-$20 pin. She wants to trade us one of those bowling pins. I looked at her and said " I just happen to need one of these, and would be more than happy to trade with you." The mother started crying & said, "it was the pin the little girl wanted in the store, but they didn't have the money to spare for such a pricey pin."
As the mother & daughter walked away A higher up CM ask us to wait a few min. He walk out with a lanyard full of limits edition pins and let us pick two.. In trade for that bowling pin one the little girl had given us!
I almost fainted.. When I saw He had two Large mr toad pins.

so you know what scrapper or not If it makes a child happy, who cares?!?

what a great post. this is what pin trading should be about. so glad you were able to make that little girl's day. so awesome : )

 

[Lorilais_mommie]

what a great post. this is what pin trading should be about. so glad you were able to make that little girl's day. so awesome : )

I think the best part now that my daughters are getting older.
They are learning the lesson better to give than receive.

Having them choose pins to trade can be difficult.
But as they get older I love hearing them discuss which ones to part with.
" I really think some little girl would like this one."
" do you think someone would liked this pin?"
" this is a good pin, time to pass it on to someone else"

Their goal is to trade pins and make someone else happy, not game the system.

It's make me really proud of them..

 

[Maleficent Dragon]

I also really doubt they can police the scrappers.

Think about it.. Is a CM really going to refuse to trade with a little 3 or 4 year old girl all decked out in her princess costume??

Also I can see all the complaints...
"I just got this pin from the CM over there, and now your telling me I can trade it to you??"
"How was I to know its a fake?"
" how is my child to know it was a fake?"
It's opens disney up to WAY to much bad press.


My family have been trading for years.. In fact my sister and attended the "classes" they had at DL for kids.
After many years of trading here are my tips...


The way my family trades:
1. We have a small pin bag. (About the size of an iPad mini.)
holds about 75 pins (25 each page)
After years of holding 3-4 lanyards why everyone went on rides. A "family" Bag makes more since

2. At home The kids go through their pins and give me all their traders
The rest stay at home..

3. 90% of the time we trade with CM.. Any pins my kids really want to keep, go into a small ziplock I keep in our backpack.
Every now and again little kids will see us trading and ask to trade too.
We always let them pick whatever they want out of our pin traders bag and accept any pin they give us.
I can always trade it to a CM later..

----I'm sorry I'm not as cold as some. I can not tell a child thier pin is a scrapper and won't trade them our nice cinderella pin. I really don't see a CM doing that either!
I had soooo many parents look at me and say "are you sure?" Just in amazement that we would even trade.
The




------------------------- little feel good story ---------------

One time in Epcot a little girl wanted a pin I knew for a fact was a $15-$20 pin. She wants to trade us one of those bowling pins. I looked at her and said " I just happen to need one of these, and would be more than happy to trade with you." The mother started crying & said, "it was the pin the little girl wanted in the store, but they didn't have the money to spare for such a pricey pin."
As the mother & daughter walked away A higher up CM ask us to wait a few min. He walk out with a lanyard full of limits edition pins and let us pick two.. In trade for that bowling pin one the little girl had given us!
I almost fainted.. When I saw He had two Large mr toad pins.

so you know what scrapper or not If it makes a child happy, who cares?!?

I agree with EVERY WORD you said. And..... that story at the end made me tear up. I would never deny a child a trade, not for a minute!

 

[disneydude365]

I have heard that there will no longer be vinylmation trading within the park or stores

 

[Candleshoe]

------------------------- little feel good story ---------------

One time in Epcot a little girl wanted a pin I knew for a fact was a $15-$20 pin. She wants to trade us one of those bowling pins. I looked at her and said " I just happen to need one of these, and would be more than happy to trade with you." The mother started crying & said, "it was the pin the little girl wanted in the store, but they didn't have the money to spare for such a pricey pin."
As the mother & daughter walked away A higher up CM ask us to wait a few min. He walk out with a lanyard full of limits edition pins and let us pick two.. In trade for that bowling pin one the little girl had given us!
I almost fainted.. When I saw He had two Large mr toad pins.

so you know what scrapper or not If it makes a child happy, who cares?!?

 

[Lorilais_mommie]

I agree with EVERY WORD you said. And..... that story at the end made me tear up. I would never deny a child a trade, not for a minute!

Everytime I look at those mr. Toad pins my eyes get misty..
I do say pin trading has been one of my fav. Things to do in the parks.

-The hunt of that last pin to complete the set.
- finding a rare pin!
-Having that last pin someone needs.. (Some good memories)
-A child trading for thier fav. Characters.

So many reason to smile.
If at the end of the day if I only traded for scrappers, it's still worth it.

 

[buzzrelly]

We collect pins, not to trade, but as a memento from each trip. I usually allow my kids one pin per park, and then my mom usually buys a couple more, maybe at DTD. We buy ones we want to remember the trip by and my daughter has a bag to save them in. We love pin collecting.

 

[dpswift]

The one thing that has slowed my own pin trading in recent years isn't scrappers, it's those stupid starter pin sets that Disney periodically sells as the "purchase with purchase" gift.

By 11 a.m. each day, the CM lanyards will be filled with nothing but the pins from those sets. It's just not worth it at that point.

I understand this. Many people begin trading on their first trip and do not have any pins until they get to WDW. Honestly I very rarely see any nice pins on CMs lanyards anymore. The pins either look like junk or are from the cheap trading sets. When I go I try to buy the "purchase with Purchase" set and save it for another trip..

 

[dpswift]

We collect pins, not to trade, but as a memento from each trip. I usually allow my kids one pin per park, and then my mom usually buys a couple more, maybe at DTD. We buy ones we want to remember the trip by and my daughter has a bag to save them in. We love pin collecting.

I agree that is how I like it. On every trip with DS I bought several pins. The resort we stayed at, a dated pin and the attraction that meant the most to him on that trip.

DH however loves trading.