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docfish2u

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Hi everybody :wavey:

I have been asked to post here about a couple outlines for the pinpics loyalty points.

There have been a lot of updated pictures, comments, scrapper notes and SKUs. Bev thanks everybody who has helped out with this!!! She also wants to point out a few things:

First on pictures, they are looking for upgraded pictures that on a solid background. Please try to crop them to only the pin, no fingers, or backer cards. Also please be sure that your photos are facing the correct way. She said she can't approve the picture if she has to do the spinning of the picture. Takes up to much time. Time is a precious thing she does not have enough of.

Comments, please keep them to the details. No opinions please.

Scrapper notes, it has to be more then just paint dips or streaks in the enamel. It is sad that Disney quality has fallen, but if you look at the racks of new pins you will find plenty that also have these traits.

SKUs, if your updated SKU number is totally different then the one listed, be sure that somebody has not swapped cards on you. It happens. If it isn't close and you did not buy it directly from Disney then chances are somebody has traded the backer cards out.

Now for the points that are showing up or not showing up. They are aware of a problem with the program that calculates them. They are working to get it fixed. Rest assured that nothing is being deleted so they can double check the points and be sure everything is correct. Don't panic about your points yet. Still new and working out the bugs. The pins at cost are not going up for sale for a while yet. Plenty of time to get it straightened out.

Bev especially wants me to thank everybody for their patience while this is getting figured out. Also to those who are updating things, thank you very much!!!
 
Just one thing to add . I asked about the images , what would class as an improvement , and was told :

"We want an image with high enough resolution to look good scaled down to 286 px x 286 px at 72 dpi. This is the resolution that is displayed on the PIN page. We also want it to scale down to postage stamp size. the MINIMUM size is the above 286px x 286x. Anything smaller looks horrible on the web site. It’s easier to scale an image DOWN than UP. Scaling up loses crispness"

This came from Chase (PinPics_Ambassador)
 
docfish2u said:
Scrapper notes, it has to be more then just paint dips or streaks in the enamel. It is sad that Disney quality has fallen, but if you look at the racks of new pins you will find plenty that also have these traits.
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It might be a good idea to change it to "counterfeit notes" instead of "scrapper", since counterfeits have very specific things to look out for that can be noted, where as true scrappers are all going to be slightly different and have a wide variable of issues to look out for no matter what pin it is, and like you said, QC has gone downhill and things can be mistaken anyway.

I've always thought that should be changed, but it's just an opinion.

 

Haha those aren't my (Chase's [me] words), I think maybe the programmer logged into my the ambassador account and responded

The resolution (286x286) came from a recommendation from Bev originally.

I can tell you that as of right now we're working on an image-manipulation platform BUILT INTO PinPics! It is super, super-slick and will greatly simplify the whole issue of cropping and resizing pin images for you guys!

Another note about pin points - as they're now called - when submitting either new pins, images, SKUs, whatever...everything is still checked by a moderator before points are awarded, so there is a delay on that end in receiving them.

Don't hesitate to shoot me an email if any other questions pop up!
 
jadeites-lady said:
Will do! I do know that for my framed sets, I don't have it broken up so it's going to have a background!
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If you are taking pictures of pins in a frame be sure to not use a flash.


I agree with your opinion, but the problem is this far into it, people just generically call them scrappers. Kind of like facial tissues being called Keenex.
 
Oh, I actually do have a question about uploading pics. I notice a lot of the pictures for pins on there are like stock images that are probably from the Disney Parks Merchandise website, with clear backgrounds.

For example...


Does Pinpics prefer images like those, or images of people's actual pins?

Hopefully, this question makes sense.
 


Easy question, the actual pins are better. I know they are in the process of updating a lot of the stock photos out of the system when actual pins pictures come in.
 
dang ddgbaldwin (Diana) has 104 points already!

And I'm way way down at 26 points.

But I have some Tokyo Disney pins that I know aren't on PinPics so I'd better take some pictures and create a listing and then upload the pictures, etc.
 
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