I think its awesome that we can now discuss and trade these pins. There has to be a venue for people who make fantasy pins and such. Some of them are very cool. As long as you dont misrepresent a pin nd are upfront about what it is, you should be able to trade it.
I know my Son and I have many Bootleg / counterfiet pins because they are really cool and they were not presented to us in a deceptive way. Pinpics does have most of these pins listed and they even have numbers assigned. This is for reference only as they cant be traded. But pinpics is pinpics and they are a DISNEY PIN SITE? They why all the counterfeit / bootleg pins. Of course, they cant be listed in your collection, trades or wants, again, just for reference.
I think there are some incredible Fantasy pins by some awesome artist like EVILOS. You can check out his wirk at
www.evilos.com
I personally like many of these so call counterfeit pins and have always said, if you like it get it. I will show an example of an awesome TRON Fantasy pin from evilos that I am happy to say I have 2 of them signed by the artist, one each for Max & I.
I will also show a few pins that once Max & I saw them we wanted them but could only trade for them at the park or meets. That makes it difficult. i am happy that the MODS here get it. This is a forum and place for people to hook up and buy, sell and trade pins. It should notmatter what kind they are as long as they are represented correctly.
Here is the TRON pin from evilos and then some other pins that Max and I have been able to aquire. If we could have asked on line who has them and worked trades, it would have been much easier. I have no problem trading HM's and similar pins for them. I have typically traded HM's for most of these pins. Nothing crazy. Thank you MODS for giving us this venue.
Here is the tron pin and then other NON TRADEABLE pins on PinPics but now tradeable thanks to DPF. YOU GUYS ROCK!!!!!!!
Even though the Diver and spinner are bootlegs / counterfeits, they are really cool because we have the authentic JUMBO pins and they look really cute next to each other in our books. Again, all of the above pins were non tradeable on pinpics.