VMK Pirate pins/cards are sold out

[JulyGirl]

I was able to order 5 boxes Tuesday morning. My CC was charged. I hope they come in time for Christmas. Two boxes are for me and the others will be gifts.

 

[caribbound]

their hot now, come december they will be cooling off. i mainly want the cards and pins, its a tie bc i collect cards and im an avid pin goer

It will only be cooled off with the locals and phone orders, not with people who only go to Disney a couple times a year or less (ha! 5 years for us). And they're not even accepting phone orders until Feb supposedly, so people who want them now are having to wait but will still want them asap.

 

[April in Disney]

I checked the stores in DD, AK and AKL on Friday and Saturday and there were no pins available. The DD manager told me they have no idea if or when they will get some more VMK pins before the holidays! I was hoping to buy some more pin boxes to gift.

 

[ElectricLime]

Just curious - is there anyone who's found any of these pins since last Tuesday, November 14, when they were released? Have any more pins appeared in any stores?

 

[Roxane]

I couldn't find any Friday or Sunday. On of the pin store mamagers called around and there were none to be had. Even the warehouse was empty

 

[tolkien7]

Mine arrived in the mail today. I ordered four boxes - don't ask me why I didn't get five! I lucked out and actually got eight different pins. I am missing 7 and 9. I feel most fortunate.

 

[Since1971]

You are not the only person who cares about this, trust me. I could list all sorts of pin release fiascos that were much worse than this one.

I agree. We have had things like this happen to us a LOT of times. Especially with pins specifically for passholders that say limit of 2. WDW does not hold people to the limit rule. If you are going to make passholder only pins, make enough for all the passholders to get them. Duh? We were so upset one time we contacted a manager at WDW. On this particular incident we arrived at Epcot on the day the passholder pins were offered and they were already sold out and never came back in stock. The manager passed our information onto someone else who apparently was very high up the chain and we received two LE passholder pins from the year before that were worth a lot more. Of course this was back in 1999 so unfortunately I don't remember her name.

 

[Laurabearz]

Just curious - is there anyone who's found any of these pins since last Tuesday, November 14, when they were released? Have any more pins appeared in any stores?

I searched High and Low for the pins over the past three days and they are none to be had.....

Hopefully the pins I ordered will arrive soon and tomorrow I plan on seeing if I can get on the 'waitlist' for more...

At least I have some for the girls stockings, but I sure would have loved more for my Chicken hat.... sigh...

 

[cat_herder]

I plan to be at Download Disney on Thanksgiving for a little while, would there be a place there that might have it?


Dianne

 

[Roxane]

If you mean Down Town Disney, there's a pin store there.

 

[Laurabearz]

I plan to be at Download Disney on Thanksgiving for a little while, would there be a place there that might have it?


Dianne

There is a pin place in DTD, near Capt Jacks... and IN the WOD they sell pins...

As for wether or not the MIGHT have pins.... hahahahahahahahahahahahaha My guess is NO..... but who knows. Bug, Slink, Smalld, and I searched High and low for pins these past few days and none were to be found anywhere.

My guess is the only chance for the pins for a while is if a CM happens to find a box that fell behind something.... although we looked behind/under/all around for them to no avail... (At least we were having a blast looking for them! lol)

So, if you happen to be there, and have time, I would look... dont expect to find them... but I sure hope you do

 

[cteddiesgirl]

Hopefully the pins I ordered will arrive soon and tomorrow I plan on seeing if I can get on the 'waitlist' for more...

Since some are saying that they are no longer taking back orders over the phone until February, I plan on doing my ordering when they are released at DLR.
Hopefully, I can get in early enough to actually get some.

Does anyone know what day they go on sale there?

 

[Dizpinfriend]

Yavn's original newsletter said 12/12/06 - but the Official Disney Pin Trading site now says 12/22/06.

I would call on the 11th!!!

 

[DeluxePrincess]

I ordered 5 boxes Tuesday morning as Christmas presents for my DD who loves VMK and Pin Trading. They arrived today and I must say they are nice looking pins (I had to peek ). She will be so happy to see she got a Pirate Room. They just took away the Pirate Quest when we visited WDW that year.

 

[Goofy_Bob]

I placed my order 11/14. My credit card had been charged on 11/14 but seeing all the posts here about being out of stock/backorder I called again on 11/15 and was told that my order was filled. I thought all was fine, I called early enough, yay!

But Lo! I just got off the phone with (407) 363-6200; I had called to find out the status of my order. I was hoping to get a tracking number so I could watch the shipping progress. But I was told that my order was on Backorder with no ETA except probably sometime next year. What?!? Next Year?!?

Oh, I'm so disappointed, frustrated, and angry right now!!

I spoke to Eddie who is the Manager's Assitant for the Merchandise Mail Order Gift Services Department (the person in charge there today, the day after Thanksgiving). In addition to apologizing repeatedly (she seemed somewhat sincere, but mostly just wanted to shut me up, I think) I found out the following from her:

1) They were caught completely by surprise on the demand for these pins. She says she's never seen an order like this go so quickly before. She says their stock and the stock in the park was exhausted early the first day.

2) She insisted (and seemed offended that I asked) that the pins were not available/sold prior to 11/14.

3) She says it's normal for them to charge a credit card when the order is placed, not when shipped. So just because they've taken your money, doesn't mean they've shipped - If I was you and you haven't got your pins yet, I would call to make sure your order shipped!

4) I should have been notified that my order was put on BO, but they're behind and hadn't got around to it.

5) She has no control over the fact that both the VMK site and the WDW site still show this item as being currently available. She says she'll let "they guy" who works on those know.

6) They have 3 more orders of pins outstanding. She didn't tell me when they were ordered nor how many more were ordered (saying of that information that she either didn't know or if she did it was "privilaged" and she wouldn't tell me). After asking several times she said that the orders were overdue and that there are more pins on order than were available the first day.

7) She said she refunded the charges to my credit card, but asked if I wanted to remain on BO. I said I did. She said she would waive the shipping fees ($26) to make up for the BO. But again, she has no ETA and assumes the pins won't be available until "after Christmas."

8) Normally there would be no notification when the BO was filled and my order shipped, but she said she could e-mail me the tracking info if I liked (I would like that and gave her my addy).

 

[Tiinkerbelle]

That's kind of what I expected, =) I can wait.

 

[tolkien7]

2) She insisted (and seemed offended that I asked) that the pins were not available/sold prior to 11/14.

They most certainly did. My friend RiceOwl ordered his on the 12th, and I ordered mine on the 13th.

 

[AvastPirateBen]

any updates?

 

[qruthie]

I searched High and Low for the pins over the past three days and they are none to be had.....

Hopefully the pins I ordered will arrive soon and tomorrow I plan on seeing if I can get on the 'waitlist' for more...

At least I have some for the girls stockings, but I sure would have loved more for my Chicken hat.... sigh...

Bears, are you saying that you don't have a chicken hat? Let me know if you do or don't have the hat!

 

[AmberDaze]

Bears, are you saying that you don't have a chicken hat? Let me know if you do or don't have the hat!

I think Bears meant that she wanted to put the pins on her real chicken hat -- right Bears? lol