Cheap booster sets on eBay?

I notice several people are selling booster packs or "lots" of booster packs for heavily discounted prices on eBay.

I'm pretty good at gauging authenticity for single pins, but these seem too good to be true. They appear to be unopened sets sealed in their original Parks packaging.

The thing that makes me think that they might be real is that most of the sets are older ones and the user reviews appear all or mostly positive.

I went ahead and bid on one to see what happens, but it makes me pretty curious as to why these are so cheap. Maybe they're from CM discounts or (gasp) stolen?

If it's crazy cheap on ebay, assume it's fake or stolen.

Yikes, I guess I'll see what happens then.

While I can't address the authenticity of the pins, I would not trust ratings/feedback on ebay for pin-sellers. Most/Many people who buy them dont know the difference between "authentic/real" pins vs. fake/scrapper pins...

Ahhh, cheap booster sets, the bane of my entire existence.

$30 a piece inside the parks, cheap as all get out on Ebay.

Have you seen this?

http://disneypinforum.com/showthread.php?58620-Inverted-raised-Mickey-heads-on-waffle-pattern

momin.ator said:

Have you seen this?

http://disneypinforum.com/showthread.php?58620-Inverted-raised-Mickey-heads-on-waffle-pattern

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I have, and I'm pretty curious about it. I haven't seen something like that before, and I figure if I get scrappers I'll at least be able to add some pictures and get scrapper alerts out. It's a gamble, but a cheap one, and if worse comes to worst I'll have a shot about reporting them for counterfeits or false advertising since they say "straight from the parks".

Interestingly enough, I notice the set went on sale almost right after it stopped being sold on the Disney website.

Fwiw, I've bought booster sets from eBay and had no problem with authenticity. Be aware that many booster sets end up in official Disney outlet stores for significantly lower prices than the parks. Add that to the CM discounts and they are being bought super cheap.

Dam it. I'm so sad to say I will never buy another pin unless it is at the parks and or if I know the seller and trust that I hey got it from the park. No the cherry on top of that comment. I will only get the pins for fun. After much research it is easy to now see the chains are off and the hobby has been played. Being able to buy all the same pins from the maker of the pins kind of takes the fun out and all your le numbers are bs. Can't be le if they just st make more to sell its on the side. To make it worse they will sell you the limited cards and little plastic to cover and now you have a on the card new le pin. Wow and a sad tear is all I have left. What a let down. Even if I knew it his would happen at some point.

WWWDD

ildar717 said:

Fwiw, I've bought booster sets from eBay and had no problem with authenticity. Be aware that many booster sets end up in official Disney outlet stores for significantly lower prices than the parks. Add that to the CM discounts and they are being bought super cheap.

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you can't tell if its authentic. It comes from the same factory as the other pins. There for they are real fake bootleg pins. I just found a place to buy 100 boosters packs at a time. No way it's outlet. They don't send it back to Ghina to resell on the interweb here in the states. Sorry to give the bad news.

There is a Disney outlet store near me. They had quite a few of the 2015 booster set last year. I was able to buy this 7 pin set for anywhere between $5 and $15 over the course of about 4 months. I bought like 10 of them when they went down to $5. So you don't even have to be a cast member to get the booster sets at a steep discount. I don't know if the ebay pins are legit, but I just wanted to give you a bit of hope that they might be.