Reputable pin sellers?

[ballerina13713]

Hi! My friend and I are going to WDW this June (YAY!) and we want to buy pins ahead of time to trade. I looked on the big thread of the sellers, but jeffreyyoung on Ebay is not on the list. Does anyone know about how reputable this seller is? All of the reviews are good, but I don't want to be buying scrappers. Thanks!

 

[sharonabe]

Hi! My friend and I are going to WDW this June (YAY!) and we want to buy pins ahead of time to trade. I looked on the big thread of the sellers, but jeffreyyoung on Ebay is not on the list. Does anyone know about how reputable this seller is? All of the reviews are good, but I don't want to be buying scrappers. Thanks!

If you want to be 100% sure, I'd buy them from disneystore.com. They have several different kinds of sets like this one

http://www.disneystore.com/disney-princess-slippers-pin-set/mp/1331581/1000286/

Yes they are more than the ebay sellers, but they're not bad.

 

[MinnieLovesMickey12]

One piece of advice is if you don't want scrappers then don't buy from Ebay. If you buy big lots of pins that are $1 each then you are not getting authentic Disney pins. But to be honest most people on these boards brag about how cheap they got their pins off Ebay and couldn't care less that they are trading scrappers to the CM's.

REAL Disney pins cost more than $1 each. Most are at least $3 each and some even more than that.

But you have to know, there are hundreds if not thousands of people knowingly buying these Chinese scrappers and trading them in the park so you can almost guarantee if you take your REAL Disney pins into the park and trade them there is a very high possibility that you will be trading for scrappers.

 

[LadyZolt]

I never did pin trading, and my son and his fiancee were trading this past January on their trip (he proposed! ) and were surprised to find out the CMs were wearing pins that weren't authentic. I personally think that the CMs should only trade for authentic Disney pins, but that is apparently not the case. Some of the fakes are pretty good -- my son learned that since the authentic pins are made in China, some of the factory workers actually steal the molds and run off authentic-looking pins with a lesser quality substances. That to me is very sad (and perhaps another reason to keep production in America where maybe it could be overseen more closely), but I just want everyone to be aware that just because a CM is wearing a pin does not mean that that pin is actually an authentic Disney pin.

-LadyZolt

 

[msmileyface]

I just got some pins from what I thought might be a "better" seller- mousepinsonline.com. Unfortunately many of them are what are considered "scrappers." That being said, I am disappointed but I still got a great variety and I really enjoy some of them. So whatever, I'll have fun keeping the ones I like and trading the ones I don't care about.

 

[Cheshire Figment]

If you go to the Collector's Forum, which is close to the bottom of the Forums list, there is a recently updated thread of good and bad eBay sellers.

 

[James G]

Hi! My friend and I are going to WDW this June (YAY!) and we want to buy pins ahead of time to trade. I looked on the big thread of the sellers, but jeffreyyoung on Ebay is not on the list. Does anyone know about how reputable this seller is? All of the reviews are good, but I don't want to be buying scrappers. Thanks!

I just bought a lot of 20 from jeffreyyoung. They were all scrapers and he refunded my money when I informed him they weren't legit, no questions asked and didn't ask for the scrapers back. 3 of the 20 look really good but are scrapers. I'm going to keep some. Some look horrible and I will toss in the trash.

-James G

 

[figment_jii]

I personally think that the CMs should only trade for authentic Disney pins, but that is apparently not the case.

Do you mean the CMs had "Fantasy" and/or non-Disney pins on their lanyard or do you mean scrappers? I haven't run across very many CMs with non-Disney pins. Most CMs I've seen do check for the Disney copyright on the back if it's a less common/unfamiliar Disney character...still that won't solve the problem about scrappers.

To the OP, I concur with the PP. The seller you mentioned does sell almost entirely scrapper pins in their grab bags. In general, if the pins are less than a couple dollar each, they're probably scrappers. He's listed as a "bad" seller on the thread on the collectors board.
http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=3076860