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Need help with trading some pins please.

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Need help with trading some pins please.

#1mickeyfreak

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I have recently decided to start collecting more pins than what I wanted and recently went to the Dayton Disneyana convention and got some more pins. One set that I picked up in a silent auction is a 5 pin set from Tokyo Disney Sea. They are the prize pins from 2011 and are retired(pin numbers 85095-85099. Can be viewed at pinpics.com) They have Mickey, Minnie, Donald, Daisy, and Chandu sitting on camels. MY question is should I hold on to these? Are they somewhat rare since you can't buy them, you had to go to Tokyo to get them, and I haven't seen them on Ebay at all. I'm wanting to trade them so I can start on what i really want which is the Disney Dreams collection and the A piece of Disney collection. Can someone please help. Thank you.
 
Hi, I looked on Pinpics to see what the pins looked like and trades/wants ratios and other info. I would say go ahead and trade them. The trades/wants ratios there are pretty good (more people wanting them than having them for trade), BUT it also has to do with the characters and how popular and wanted they are, etc.

Last year, very good pin trader friends came to visit and we were all looking through each others' pins. They brought a specific set, also from Japan, from some type of vending machines there; they were Toy Story pins, which I collect and had on my wants list. My friends brought them because they knew I had them on my wants list and I traded for them, and I was thrilled to get them and doing the "Happy Pin Dance." Probably no one else (except major Toy Story collectors) would be interested.

So you have to take that into account--the actual demand for the pins--more than how old they are, which park or store released them, the characters, etc.

Hope that helps!
 
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