Scrapper Solution Brainstorming
VERY true!!! I had purchased pins from an ebay seller (Hong Kong Resort pins). I knew they were LE and hard to find, but I paid good money for them so figured I was getting what I thought was a real pin. ROFL. Ya right!!! I read up on pinpics before purchasing, made sure the picture of the item matched the "real" description of the pin vs the description of the scrapper. Well they matched so I thought I was good to go. I received the pins - the paint was nearly missing in some parts of the pins, they were lighter than a dime in weight and extreemly rough around the edges. I kindly wrote the seller and said that I was not satisified with my purachase as I feel they are fake (due to the fact she was relisting them faster than the factories can make them) and they are LE so should couldn't possibly have ALL of them. Anyway, she wrote back and said well I have never ever had someone return a pin due to this accusation. She went on to tell me that she has acquired all of her pins purchased directly from Disney blah blah blah... Long story short, I sent the pins back to her, I got my money back... but someone else is going to get the same pins thinking they are real.I like these ideas. Another avenue might be reporting to the USPS as mail fraud. Of course, there's a difference between someone who sells 50 pins and there are a few scrappers as compared with someone who sells 1000's of pins the majority of which are scrappers. It's also difficult to "argue" with their near 100% positive feedback on Ebay. If one of us complains, we look like the disgruntled lunatic.
Here's an idea....bring manufacturing of pins to the United States. I think Disney would maintain much more control over the scrapping issue and maybe QC might improve. (then again, maybe not!) Of course that will NEVER happen.
::nods to all of this::
Although, Erudolf, I'd bet what's more likely than the complete dying of pin trading and collecting would be a return to the levels of the early 2000s. Even if the fad or hobby of pin trading dies down, I think people will still buy *some* pins. I was buying ones from the Disney store before 2000, so there's always an interest, even if it isn't BIG.
Create a new character called Scrap. (He's a mangy one, with rough edges and unfinished parts.) Then start a game called "Trap Scrap!" (â„¢), where legions of excited young fans have to search each other's lanyards for "Scrappers". These "Scrappers" (with rough edges and questionable lineage) would be highly sought after in the Trap Scrap!â„¢ community. Fans will be heartbroken after searching CM lanyards in vain for these rare, mythical objects. Because fans will hunger for Trap Scrap!â„¢ nostalgia, an entire line of custom lanyards, movies, cartoons, trading cards, and Scrapylmationsâ„¢ will be born.
Btw, I'm in the middle of a South Parkâ„¢ Netflixâ„¢ marathon, so my idiocy should border on genius. :rofl:
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