Let’s help new pin traders avoid the cheap pins

[aksunshine]

Thanks!!

 

[bar1jp]

thanks to everyone I am just starting this thread is really helping me figure out what pins to buy!!!

 

[hsmamato2]

I'm looking at a disney pin, must be put out by AAA as it's marked on it, anyway-has Pinnochio and a vw car, (Dh likes vw's) is it a real trader, or disney pin? he prob. wouldn't trade it, wondering if it's worth it to pay money,or is it a free promo pin of some sort

 

[EpcotMatt]

I'm looking at a disney pin, must be put out by AAA as it's marked on it, anyway-has Pinnochio and a vw car, (Dh likes vw's) is it a real trader, or disney pin? he prob. wouldn't trade it, wondering if it's worth it to pay money,or is it a free promo pin of some sort

Is it this pin 18372: AAA Travel Company 2003 Pin - Pinocchio?

http://www.pinpics.com/cgi-bin/pin.cgi?pin=18372&sid=8936.1170979606.v2

 

[2Pirates_1Princess]

I have never bought or traded pins before. I am going to look on ebay and want to buy some for my kids to trade. We will be at Disney for a week in June. How many pins should I buy for each kid to start trading with ?

 

[Suzflee]

I'm guessing you have 3 children based on your name? Ages? My kids got into it and they were 7, 10. If you don't get enough, you'll be tempted to buy them at full price while you are there.

the hard part is, when you trade for one you really want, you don't want to give that one up and eventually you'll get all "keepers" dad usually offered up one of his when DS found another star wars one that he wanted!

Depending on how many days you'll be at the park and how old they are, I might give them 3-4 each day? definitely don't give them all to them at one time - hold some out as a surprise for later in the trip!

have a great time!

 

[mamacatnv]

I'm guessing you have 3 children based on your name? Ages? My kids got into it and they were 7, 10. If you don't get enough, you'll be tempted to buy them at full price while you are there.

the hard part is, when you trade for one you really want, you don't want to give that one up and eventually you'll get all "keepers" dad usually offered up one of his when DS found another star wars one that he wanted!

Depending on how many days you'll be at the park and how old they are, I might give them 3-4 each day? definitely don't give them all to them at one time - hold some out as a surprise for later in the trip!

have a great time!

We went thru 110 between 3 of us with my DD 8 being the most active trader. At the end of the day we reviewed our lanyards and decided what was a keeper, took it off and added new traders in place.

We set off every day with between 7-10 traders and even tho we traded once it was not unusual for us to trade a traded pin away until we got a true keeper.

 

[hastrobb]

We went to WDW in May of 2000 and got a few pins then. Is there a place I can look up the ones I have and see if they are worth anything before we trade them. I looked at the back of them and did not see any number or anything 2 of them say Disney Fotoball one is pin #67 0f 101 and the other is #42 of 101. The other ones are the 2000 hand in hand celebration pins. Thanks for any help.

 

[Suzflee]

Hastrobb,

Check out

pinpics dot com

You don't need a number. Just type in a description. You might have to look through a few before you find yours but it's not too hard.

happy trading!

 

[hastrobb]

Thanks! That is a great help.

 

[2Pirates_1Princess]

Thanks for the great advice. I am waiting for my first batch of pins to arrive and am currently bidding on more. I also plan a trip to the disney store this week to check out the pin sale. I heard someone mention that they got a star wars pin from a cast member. Is this possible ? Do you know if they have star wars themed lanyards ? My 3 kids are DD4, DS7 and DS10. I think I will start the older two with 7 pins and limit the little one to 4 pins. Once again thanks for all the great advice.

 

[AprilLooWho]

We are going on our first WDW trip in 8 days and we ave decided to try pin trading. I know ...last minute idea! Anyway...we ran over to the mall and picked up Pirates of the Carribean lanyards at Claires's, ( they also have High School Musical, and Cheetah girls). We went to the Disney store and got a cool light up Peter Pan pin. We also got some Little Mermaid and Peter Pan pins in sets of 3 that are small. I have heard that these are still tradeable. I also got my dd's each a set of "the fairies" pins that are small flower shaped pins. Are these okay to start with??? Will they be able to trade the small ones? Are the CM's going to even want to trade them for the small ones??? Thanks for the input!

 

[kristennn]

We're going to Disney in June. it will be myself, my husband, my daughter who will turn 4 while we are there and my 7 year old niece. Aside from my husband none of us have been there before . We are going with make a wish (my dd had a liver transplant)
So I am just learning all about disney in general ... and I am wondering if we should do the pin trading. I think it sounds like fun. Is it something we will have time for though? I am thinking about buying pins in advance for all 4 of us. What is a good reasonable number to get? We have three day hopper passes at disney a one day pass to seaworld and a one day hopper pass at universal. Do you only trade at the disney parks?
- Also I am not sure what the lanyards look like ... does everyone put their pin on the same sort of thing - or does it vary?
I'm just trying to figure out if this is something that will be fun for us to do!

 

[Suzflee]

Kristen,
Not sure if you've had time to read some of the former posts so I might be repeating some stuff but here goes...

Really depends on the kids and their interests. Mine loved the fun of the hunt for the pins/characters they were interested in.

You don't really "make time" for it...you just do it as you're walking, waiting in line, waiting for a parade. Cast members are the safest folks to trade with since you can give them any pin and request any pin they have (just can't give them one they already have)

I found a set of 7 pooh and a set of 10 mickeys for less than $3 each on ebay. A former poster went thru 110 pins for three or four in her family...we didn't come close to that and it's a little out of my budget but it was definitely worth it.

yes, disney parks only for disney pins...

as far as the lanyards, you can find those on ebay too but we just used ones (non-disney) we had around the house. my daughter and husb used their hats and I've seen them on backpacks before also.

Keep reading all the threads here and you'll find out all you need to know about how to make your visit the best!

 

[kristennn]

what do you think about these ebay auctions/sellers ...
item # 160087477531
#160085817175

Let me know what you think!

 

[Parkhopper]

We went to WDW in May of 2000 and got a few pins then. Is there a place I can look up the ones I have and see if they are worth anything before we trade them. I looked at the back of them and did not see any number or anything 2 of them say Disney Fotoball one is pin #67 0f 101 and the other is #42 of 101. The other ones are the 2000 hand in hand celebration pins. Thanks for any help.

Are these your pins?

http://www.pinpics.com/cgi-bin/pin.cgi?pin=424&sid=2665.1172069735

http://www.pinpics.com/cgi-bin/pin.cgi?pin=649&sid=2665.1172069735

http://www.pinpics.com/cgi-bin/pin.cgi?pin=5&sid=2682.1172069857

http://www.pinpics.com/cgi-bin/pin.cgi?pin=1&sid=2682.1172069857

http://www.pinpics.com/cgi-bin/pin.cgi?pin=2&sid=2682.1172069857

http://www.pinpics.com/cgi-bin/pin.cgi?pin=3&sid=2682.1172069857

Suzi

 

[hastrobb]

Yes the first 2 and the last 2 are my pins. Thanks for your help in looking.

 

[Ragetti]

My family is excited to do pintrading for our WDW vacation coming up. Is there a good place to purchase lanyards and/or starter sets before the trip? The official disney store site seems to have a very limited selection.

 

[springandmac]

I've recently bought several lots from pincastle on ebay. But I noticed that instead of having the black mickey shaped backs, these have small gold rubber backs. Does anyone think this will be a problem trading?

 

[missj1975]

I've recently bought several lots from pincastle on ebay. But I noticed that instead of having the black mickey shaped backs, these have small gold rubber backs. Does anyone think this will be a problem trading?

The backs don't matter when you trade. As long as the pin is stamped disney, you are ok. When I traded in December, I had some pins with metal backs. Some cm's would exchange the backs when trading the pins. In otherwords they would keep the nice rubber back and I would keep the metal back. Other cm's were the complete opposite, they would want me to have the nice rubber back and they kept the metal back. It kind of drove me crazy because no one was consistent but it doesn't really matter. Backs are easily replaced. You can buy packs of just rubber backs at the pin stores. I also bought a packet of small gold rubber backs off of ebay for my personal collection because I don't like the metal backs.