i got a few great pins from cast members on the cruise ship and have been told that the cast members get some great pins and sometimes even get the LE pins that are rare and hard to find. trading with cast members is easy and fun. if they have a great pin you like and the pins you have are ok they will trade. i hope this helps
Every now and then you can find something special, but not very often. Almost never on a costumed cast member; the few "treasures" I've found were from managers and other "bigwigs". Keep looking though, 'cuz you never know!
Steve
My oldest dd got a cool Cast Member Florida Pin when we went in May...She had it backwards on her lanyard so we didn't know what we would be getting..But I was really excited about it...
She loves Indiana and had bought one poster pin two years ago. Last year she FOUND! another one on the ground at DTD. Then this year she finds a Maintenance person with the last poster she needed and traded for it. From what I was told they haven't been sold for a year or more. We were really excited. She now has the three motion picture posters. Maybe we'll get lucky and find the Stunt Spectacular poster next year!
We also discovered that a couple of her trades were EuroDisney pins. Guess all the Brits brought those over the pond.
She also found someone with a small Chip--not the regular size and a small Darth Vader head (don't think that one is disney) so she felt very successful!