I post this photo, knowing it will mean nothing, and will probably make me look more like a freak, that can and should be dunked on. The binders contain the monthly release calendars from US Parks, Paris, Soda Fountain. The back binder is the images I collected from the Chinese websites and went through and identified every pin by their PinPics number and passed a lot of this information on to Bev when she was one of the Admin / Mods of Pinpics so that those "Be aware that this pin is being offered for sale directly to pin collectors from a factory in China" messages could be added to listings that didn't already have it. And my Scoop Sanderson pin, so yeah, I know who he is. If he still has his notebook where he wrote the names of the pins he awarded it's #590. Edited date, I thought I got it on one trip but no, I got it on a different one. January 2003 is correct, or at least I did take a trip that month.
What is not visible are all the listings saved from previous versions of DSFs online database of pins, and US park releases on the old ODPT.com Disney site, event catalogs and other information in digital form pulled from the Internet Archive searches of Disney's websites, that I didn't print out because it's less conducive to printing. As close to original source material as I could find, in the event that one day we woke up and PinPics was gone, and knowing how sue-happy the pin community seems to be, so it couldn't come from PinPics itself, except what would fall under reasonable Fair Use, and the hope that there were other individuals who had done the same in their area of expertise (I am short on Asian information, and regret not saving the Disney Auctions information), so it could be rebuilt. In defending your bona fides, what you have done is diminish the magnitude of work others have done to capture what they could with the resources they had.
No, I never had access to what Holland had access to. I do I was a 20-something, random person who lived in Washington State without regular access to parks. I live in Colorado now, still far away. Molly Anne mentioned that I didn't come to an in-person, or attend Zoom, well, Pinpics people don't know me either and now they know why in-person is unlikely, and why to most people in pin world I am a nobody, except here. I have been committed to the idea that one day, literally every pin would have to be recreated somewhere, even if it was my own personal one. I have sketches of website wire frames, I have developed taxonomies (yes, like the Natural World) to break down and organize all the information that would need to added. Far, far more than the number of fields that Britt included in the original website, and every dang pin website, including the newest PinPics and the new My Pin Central, keeps limiting itself to. I have written all kinds of Pin trading background information based on the types of questions new collectors ask, that I've yet to see any of the new websites put out there, that I'm purposefully, not defining in greater detail. I have the receipts of most every pin I purchased direct from a variety of retailers, and most of the backers. Certainly, everything since about 2014 has never been removed from the cards because I understood how important it was to keep those pins with their original cards, in a world of counterfeits and scrappers, hoping for the day where I would have a place to begin the photography section. And somewhere in the web, is my attempt to build a database by hand, until I was thwarted by my lack of backend, database administrator knowledge in a Windows machine environment to reliably restore the site, with data intact, if there were any issues. Not building the UI interface, the backend operational stuff that you rely on your programmer for. Don't have the resources to hire that bit out, and I really, really tried to learn how to do it. But this is the stuff people learn in a professional environment, and my DH kept trying to remind me of how far I got without having professional skills and resources to lean on, when I would hit brick walls, until I got to the one I couldn't get through.
If you have any help at all, congratulations, that's more than I had and was still trying to accomplish. I cringe knowing, how many hours upon hours, I devoted to this and have very little digital to show for it (which is another reason why I am placing limits on what I'll do for others. I burnt myself out trying to do it solo.) I do agree with you that most people do not understand what is required, but do not assume that everyone that is participating in this discussion is one of those people. I make my statements, knowing how much time I spent on this over the last 10 years, and how much work would have been required if I could overcome that last hurdle. But I repeat, I was willing to recreate every single pin by myself (although I was hoping pin friends would be motivated, through my dedication) to help out, and took steps to do so. Now, I think I've ran out of time.
For me its: SHOW ME THE TRADING! 
