Just a question... pin event related!

[Goofy4Pluto]

This is completely hypothetical, I'm not asking
for a sponsor, so this is not the case... I'm trying
to rationalize something I was told today...


If you were attending a pin event...
and you happen to have an extra RSP (or 2 or 3)...
and you wanted someone to sponsor you...
how much would you want that person to pay?

(all include extra shipping if it applies)

*** Only the event fee plus cost of the pins they want?

*** Enough to cover the event fee, the pins they want
AND your air fare?

*** The cost of your entire vacation plus the pins they want?

So, if the cost of a pin event was $35.00 (in addition
to your travel expenses...) is asking $250 too much to be
wanting from each sponsor for the pin cruise?
The person asking for this is NOT new to trading,
NOT poor, touting that the pins are VERY EXCLUSIVE
and the person is also not on this site! I think they are
asking for a free vacation.... what do you think?
After all, they get to enjoy 4 nights on a cruise ship, etc.

I just cannot imagine anyone doing this... I'm currently
amongst a deal for the Sept event and pin cruise and
I am not charging for anything other than the pins
that they want or negotiating an equal trade of pins...
am I the one that is nuts here? After all I get to be on
the ship and real vacation... they don't! I'm not about to
ever charge a person, but I just wanted to know if I'm
the fool, or if this is considered NORMAL when you sponsor!

Please help me figure this out!

 

[Dizneypins.com]

I have never done this or been a sponsor but I thought if the event was $35 I would pay the person $35 plus the money for the pins I win on the RSP.. Not travel costs ??? The person going gets the food, good times and friendships..

 

[Raulandpinboy]

If I have an extra RSP then all I would charge is the cost of the pins, plus shipping. After all I’m there, and it would help somebody out. I can’t see using this as a profit making deal for me, its just not right.

Now if you were being sponsored from the get go, then here’s my take on it. I was sponsored one time in the beginning, and we often let my grandkids get sponsored, if they are not going to an event. If they do all we ever ask for is the cost of the event, the cost of the pins, and shipping. They get the pleasure of going to the event, the food (if there is some), and spending time with friends.

Also as the sponsor you would be getting everything and anything that I or they get while at the event. From the gifts to the prizes, and I’ll go one better if I’m awarded a CTT while I’m there, then its yours because I would not have been there had it not been for the sponsor.

In the past I have had sponsored people ask for the gift, the free pins, or ask for food money or gas. That’s not the way I would work it, but I’m here in Florida 15 minutes away from the mouse. If I was in say Atlanta and you wanted me to drive to Disney to attend an event I can see splitting the costs of the gas. I’m still getting to the event for free, but it is a ways away.

Also it would make no sense for you to sponsor a person in say New York if they want, airfare, hotel stay, the cost of food. Your right you just paid for a vacation, you might as well go yourself.

If I were in New York, and I had an RSP and I suddenly could not make it, I would first try to find a local to help me, or as we did just recently a person in California got ill, could not come to the last event, we were all already going, so we asked one of our non pin person to come along and hang out for a day to help this person out. Nothing extra was asked for, just the event entrance fee, and the cost of the pins, which were already pain for anyway. So our friend got a day in the park for free, all he had to do was carry a bag out the car. Keep in mind our friend had an Annual Pass so he could get in, plus the last event was not in a park so he was covered. But had he not had a pass, and then maybe the cost of park admission might be order, although most events take care of that.

Just my take because, we have had people in the past when a new pin came out and if you asked them to please get you the pin, would ask for you to pay for yours, and their pin plus lunch and gas… Yes it happened so be careful whom you ask for what.

Getting off the soapbox now thank you.

 

[Goofy4Pluto]

And being the PIN CRUISE...
there is NOTHING SPECIAL about it or
it is considered a BIGGER DEAL and
a MAJOR LEAGUE game rather than a
minor league or college game RIGHT?

Thanks to you both for your answers!
I had a feeling I was right... and I was right!
And thanks for assuring me that I'm not nuts!

So, with that said, buyer beware! There are
folks on another site trying to take advantage
of good people!

 

[Mickey527]

posted by Ed "So our friend got a day in the park for free, all he had to do was carry a bag out to the car"


If this was one of Ed's pin bags the poor guy got the worst of the deal. He got some food from the event, but he now is in traction from carrying that pin bag.
I heard Ed hires people to go to the event for him just to carry his bags. Some pin people will rent a baby stroller for their bags, Ed just rents a person.
Worth it? Just glad I don't live in FL I would hate getting that early morning phone call from Ed to attend an event last minute.
Peggie

 

[JamesD]

Heh, Heather you must have contacted the same person I did concerning sponsoring a member of their family for the pin cruise event. I about chocked when they told me it would be $250 per person! Right!!

 

[Goofy4Pluto]

Probably is the same one James!
I just couldn't believe they said
that they actually already had
one taker...! I feel sorry, because
that person has been taken!

I just wanted to know what was
involved in sponsorship, for the
future really, and see what they
were offering etc...
I'm going on this cruise, but
may or may not go again...

I almost fell over! $250 would
cover my airfare and admission
to Epcot for a day!

Truly sick!

 

[chefmanny]

Who would do sponsorship for a cruise anyway?????
The pins would be killer traders, sellers, whatever????
...and if you are going to be on the cruise anyway????...why not keep them!
Or better yet!!!...E-Bay!!!!