New trader looking for advice
Hello everyone!
First about me. I am new to Disney pin trading. Bought my first pins on honeymoon with my wife late last year at all the Orlando parks. We picked up pins from everywhere we went with the plan to build a shadowbox display to remember the trip by. As such we ended up with an eclectic collection of pins from the Disney resorts, a Hard Rock Orlando pin, Blue Man Group pin and some from the Universal parks. The shadowbox came together great and everyone who comes by our house always stops and comments on it. Kids who see it love the Disney pins and their reactions are what have really brought me here.
We have a large number of nieces, nephews, etc. Since they all seem to love the Disney pin dominated display we have I am trying to plan ahead for Christmas/Birthdays and start making displays for all of them. To do a nicely populated 8"x10" shadowbox I am thinking that I'll need around 10-12 pins each. That isn't too bad, but when I'm going to need to make around 20 different displays I run into an issue that the price of buying those pins new really won't work. To get around the cost issue I have been looking at buying a few bulk lots on Ebay which brings up another issue.
I see a lot of sellers on Ebay offering lots of 25-100 Disney pins each at an affordable price. When I go through each sellers feedback they usually have a very high percentage of positive feedback but everyone has a few buyers claiming they received all fake pins. This makes me wary to buy cheap lots from anyone. I have seen a lot of advice on how to help avoid buying fake pins on Ebay but I'm a little new to this and feel a little out of my depth trying to apply the advice I find to weed out good deals from the fake pin lots.
My perfect situation here would be to buy several hundred pins on the cheap to give me a nice base to start building my gift displays. Once that is done I'd like to pick and choose some pins from the official store to add a special touch to each display. Hopefully I'd have enough unused pins to put on lanyards to hand out at our annual family Thanksgiving trip to WDW so everyone who wanted could trade in the parks. I'd want to avoid fakes obviously and I'd like to keep the price manageable to start out.
What I need to know is the "perfect situation" that I've just described doable? Are there any places, or sellers, that are reputable and affordable that anyone could direct me to? Thank you all in advance for any tips you could offer me and thank you for reading all this. I look forward to chatting here and I'm hoping this affection I'm developing for Disney pins doesn't turn into an addiction. I'm already working on a Vinylmation 3D pin display for myself, I'll post a pic of that and the gift displays as I get them done.
Have a wonderful day all!
First about me. I am new to Disney pin trading. Bought my first pins on honeymoon with my wife late last year at all the Orlando parks. We picked up pins from everywhere we went with the plan to build a shadowbox display to remember the trip by. As such we ended up with an eclectic collection of pins from the Disney resorts, a Hard Rock Orlando pin, Blue Man Group pin and some from the Universal parks. The shadowbox came together great and everyone who comes by our house always stops and comments on it. Kids who see it love the Disney pins and their reactions are what have really brought me here.
We have a large number of nieces, nephews, etc. Since they all seem to love the Disney pin dominated display we have I am trying to plan ahead for Christmas/Birthdays and start making displays for all of them. To do a nicely populated 8"x10" shadowbox I am thinking that I'll need around 10-12 pins each. That isn't too bad, but when I'm going to need to make around 20 different displays I run into an issue that the price of buying those pins new really won't work. To get around the cost issue I have been looking at buying a few bulk lots on Ebay which brings up another issue.
I see a lot of sellers on Ebay offering lots of 25-100 Disney pins each at an affordable price. When I go through each sellers feedback they usually have a very high percentage of positive feedback but everyone has a few buyers claiming they received all fake pins. This makes me wary to buy cheap lots from anyone. I have seen a lot of advice on how to help avoid buying fake pins on Ebay but I'm a little new to this and feel a little out of my depth trying to apply the advice I find to weed out good deals from the fake pin lots.
My perfect situation here would be to buy several hundred pins on the cheap to give me a nice base to start building my gift displays. Once that is done I'd like to pick and choose some pins from the official store to add a special touch to each display. Hopefully I'd have enough unused pins to put on lanyards to hand out at our annual family Thanksgiving trip to WDW so everyone who wanted could trade in the parks. I'd want to avoid fakes obviously and I'd like to keep the price manageable to start out.
What I need to know is the "perfect situation" that I've just described doable? Are there any places, or sellers, that are reputable and affordable that anyone could direct me to? Thank you all in advance for any tips you could offer me and thank you for reading all this. I look forward to chatting here and I'm hoping this affection I'm developing for Disney pins doesn't turn into an addiction. I'm already working on a Vinylmation 3D pin display for myself, I'll post a pic of that and the gift displays as I get them done.
Have a wonderful day all!
