Where do ebay sellers get these cheap pins?

[goingquackers]

Forgive me if this was covered before. I did a search and did not come up with anything.

Where do these ebay sellers get these "trader" pins? and how can they sell them for as low as $1.47 a pin?

I just bought a 100 lot of official disney park pins (great stuff) for under $150

where are they getting these?

 

[DizneyDogs]

There are chinese companies that sell these pins really cheap as they are most likely scrapper pins.

 

[goingquackers]

There are chinese companies that sell these pins really cheap as they are most likely scrapper pins.

Mine were official trading pins shipped from Florida,

what are scrappers?

 

[jackskellingtonsgirl]

A scrapper is a factory reject. They are pins manufactured by the same place that makes the "authentic" pins, but they are sold without Disney's permission on the secondary market. Most often they end up on eBay from domestic sellers. The people who list them on eBay buy them from China, separate them into lots, then sell them.

There are also outright counterfeits, which are made in China to look like an authentic pin. They will say "Disney made in China" just like any other pin. The point of a counterfeit is to make it look as much like an authentic pin as possible - the same way a counterfeit purse or $20 bill or anything else strives to look as "real" as possible.

 

[goingquackers]

i am not convinced these are "scrappers" or fakes. They have the official "pin trading logo" and the year or issue. They were about $1.50 a pin shipped.

does anyone know where they are getting these?

 

[DizneyDogs]

scrappers are also overrun pins as well - they are the exact same pins sold in the park with the logo and everything - they just made too many pins which should have been destroyed but they go out the back door and are sold

here's more info on these pins from the dizpins website

http://www.dizpins.com/pinventory/scrappers.htm

 

[jackskellingtonsgirl]

i am not convinced these are "scrappers" or fakes. They have the official "pin trading logo" and the year or issue. They were about $1.50 a pin shipped.

does anyone know where they are getting these?

The fakes have that, too.
The point of a counterfeit is to make it look authentic.

They typically have an authentic looking back stamp. Where you spot the fakes is in the numbering on the Hidden Mickey or Cast Lanyard pins. For example, the purple monorail SHOULD say 1 of 4, but the fakes say 3 of 4 (not sure what the actual numbers should be - check Pin Pics for that). Or the font is different. Or the info is arranged in a different way, say stacked vertically on the back of a fake and side by side on the real pin. The differences are subtle enough that you can not tell without having a real pin and a fake pin side by side. That's the whole idea behind a fake. If you could tell just by looking it wouldn't be a very good fake, would it?

If you look at the Comparisons forum on the DizPins boards there are photos of fakes and authentic pins side by side with the differences highlighted.