pixiewings71
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Pix ..girl..
Are you bored?
How could you tell?
Pix ..girl..
Are you bored?
How could you tell?
It was obvious...
I haven't posted on this thread for quite awhile, but living less than 10 miles from Disney World and being avid pin traders and collectors, I have noticed something Disney has started doing with their pins and thought who better to tell then everyone who reads this thread!
Disney themselves has started (in 2011) making the Mickey heads on the back of the pins NOT go off of the pin nicely!!!!!
My theory is they are doing it on purpose to offset the scrapper accusations.
The new tron mystery pins I bought have the Mickey heads that DO NOT go off the back, and I just bought a Lightening McQueen and Mater 2pc set and a Mickey and Minnie Mouse Easter Egg 2 pc set ~ all with crappy, not going off the back Mickey Heads and ALL purchased by MYSELF from the Pin Hut at Downtown Disney.
To top that off ... the little vinylmations in the 5 pin packs now come in little clear zip loc baggies not the usual black ones!
I have pics if anyone wants to see them
Funny...I had to reread your post...
and..the 2nd time i understood it..
and..i checked my recent Disney acquisitions.
You are right!
you see,I traded a few pins last month with cms..that had the mickey head outlines on the backs..
so,,
I assumed they were scrappers.
they were fine otherwise...
but..as they had the outline..
I just thought..good scrapper..
but..still a scrapper.
then..I read your letter..
and..I checked a bunch of my recently bought pins...
and..of the ones that do have the mouse head stamped backs...
about 10% do have that border.
Not all...and none of the higher end...
passholder or DVC exclusives..
nor any of those from the Magical event...
but..a few of the pwp key pins and..one of the Le classics ...have it.
Yes, I've noticed it's not on the high end pins. Just the mystery packs, some of the 2pc pin sets, and single pins. Very interesting ...
It's getting harder and harder to tell which pin is real or not, especially as Disney's quality is going down.
You buy a lot of pins from Disney? Have you noticed the quality being so bad lately? I have bought nice limited editions, with scratchy metal on the front, dipped and pitted enamel. I had one so bad I took it back to exchange it for another one. One of the Figment pins in the new reveal conceal mystery sets was so pitted I'm not even going to keep it!
With the quality being as bad as scrappers on a lot of new pins, and the backs and baggies ~ we'll not be able to tell soon!
I have read a lot on this thread and now I am scared to buy pins from anybody. I was thinking of buying a grab bag from mousepinsonline but i am too scared to do so. My boys want to do pin trading this time( we have tried this in the past but they never wanted to trade a pin once I bought it.) and I was thinking of buying a 50 lot grab bag. Now I'm worried that they will be scrappers or that I will trade a fake one by accident. What do you think? Should I buy from Mousepinsonline?
They look just fine.
I would buy it with no worries.
Carmello looks like a good seller to me as well.
Another pin trading newbie here. I have 4 kids to get pins for and I want to do it as budget friendly as possible but I also want to stay with legit pins. I am watching some with thewill since he is on the green list. But have any of you had any experience with a seller called evaandmike? As a complete novice, the individual pins look good to me but I can't really say. I would love to pick up one of the lots but I just don't know if I would be able to tell scrappers from good pins. WDYT? And TIA for any advice!