Maybe you wouldn't do it for special pins, but what if it's for something you would covet?
A card for free unlimited Drinks of the Day?
Brunch for 14 in Palo's private room?
A personalized Ducky Williams' drawing?
A free upgrade to the Walt Disney Suite?
As for the pins on the May 2005 PC repo,
DCL vastly underestimated the popularity and demand for them. So there was a small limited edition. And this was perhaps during the height of the pin craze.
Mrs. Woody did not sleep in the Atrium. But she knew people who did, and joined them in the morning before pins were distributed.
Woody