What ideas do you have...

[NHMickey]

To take pin trading on to it's next step... How would you and what would you change? What do you miss that they (Disney) does not do anymore? It seems to me Disney has no focus on the pins. And I can see why. Let's face it Disney parks were designed to be just that Theme parks. I would be willing to bet that they make any where from 90 to 95% more on the core pins than the LE's. Think about this. If less than 5% of the people that come in to a park each day buy just one pin... Well that is thousands of pins a day. So it stands to reason that they make the main push for "Core" pins. As that is were the money is. But collectors like the hard to get and exotic pins. So that leaves us with 5 to 10% of the pins as LE's and out of that less than 20% of those are sought after pins. What would you do to change or improve 'Pin Trading"?

I will pass these thoughts along to a few people when I go to WDW in a week....

As for me...

I would stop releasing so many high LE's and make the ones they do release a little lower edition size. It would be nice to see a few pins like Angery Donald, Flubber and the such again.

How about a POM set that you could sign up for... You know buy the first one and be sure you were going to get the last one as well. This would be more for the collectors than traders.. Follow suit to the DCl and maybe have an le of 750 or less... Every Month

NUMBER the low le's. And treat them like collectables.

Train the CM's a little better so that they are al on the same page. Maybe not those that are working attractions and are just wearing the lanyard but the ones who sell and work with the pins daily...

Release a Low LE only at one place and use a fast pass type system to keep track of who bought theirs already... Everyone has a ticket if it is inside the park or a cast id...

How about you? Any thoughts.

 

[Cruise]

Well, as someone new to pin collecting/trading, I'd like to see something a little more focused as well. With so many pins out there, it's hard to have a "collection" in the traditional sense. Either you have them all or you pick a character or two. But I don't want to limit myself to just one character either. So I'm at a place where I don't know what to collect.

The things that appeal to me are something like the US State specific pins. Or the new Pooh Santas Around the World. But there's only 13 of them (representing 12 countries). While I admit that there's no sense in making one for each of the almost 200 countries in the world, I don't really feel a need to rush out to buy one for Yugoslavia either (no offense meant to any Yugoslavia fans) It does make me wonder how they make the choices they do sometimes.

Julie

 

[Swamp_Fox]

I would do away with the travel package pins. They are too numerous and can make any CM sick of us pintraders.

Be more strict with allowing duplicate pins on lanyards this way you wont be seeing the same pins over and over and over again.

I'll take what Nat said and take this one step further. Yes number the low LE, but I would like confirmation of the remainder of pins to be destroyed to be a true LE. However in some cases have a small supply on hand for the possibility of damaged pins.

Enforce limits on pins. If a pin calls for a limit on two pins per person then there should be a way to enforce that like for a day visitor a handstamp to show the purchase of the pins. For a resort guest/DVC member or AP holder an indication on the ticket about the purchase. That way it would be only one limit of pins per day at any pin station.

This one may be a bit stickey, age limits on pins. I've seen this many many time children buying LE pins for their parents or other adults.

Finally I would like to see a more pin educated, pin excited CM

Larry