Help a Newcomer ID Scrapper vs Counterfeits
Before I even get to the meat of this post, I feel a little story is in order...
My wife and I started pin collecting roughly a year ago when we went to WDW Magic Kingdom and got our first lanyards, a few rack pins, and some Hidden Mickey pouches (hope I am getting all the lingo down, just found this community yesterday ) We quickly got hooked on these little buggers. Just this past weekend we were at WDW Magic Kingdom again (for the third time since we started collecting). We went to the Trading Post to pick up some more pins (the ones we had already we wanted to keep). $60 later is when it really hit me how expensive this hobby can be. So naturally I thought "Well why dont we take a look on eBay and see if we can find someone trying to sell a lot for a good deal."
100 pins for $50, what a great deal! And they all came in neat little baggies! (I know what you all are thinking now lol)
So here I am, sitting on my living room floor with a pile of pins scattered around, searching for my newest keepers. Thats when I noticed something weird; a bouncing tigger pin with no Pin Trading logo on the back. So i thought to myself "Weird, maybe its a fake...cheep dollar store pin or something"
So I go onto google and search how to find counterfeit pins and now here I am, reading all about scrappers and fakes from you knowledgeable folks.
My eBay seller moves 500+ pins a day, sells them all for under 50 cents a pic, packages them in small baggies, and posts generic pictures for the listings. All these factors point that the pins i got are scrappers/counterfeits. Bummer right?
Now I am going through my new pins and 'practicing' my authentic identification skills and was wondering a few things
My wife and I started pin collecting roughly a year ago when we went to WDW Magic Kingdom and got our first lanyards, a few rack pins, and some Hidden Mickey pouches (hope I am getting all the lingo down, just found this community yesterday ) We quickly got hooked on these little buggers. Just this past weekend we were at WDW Magic Kingdom again (for the third time since we started collecting). We went to the Trading Post to pick up some more pins (the ones we had already we wanted to keep). $60 later is when it really hit me how expensive this hobby can be. So naturally I thought "Well why dont we take a look on eBay and see if we can find someone trying to sell a lot for a good deal."
100 pins for $50, what a great deal! And they all came in neat little baggies! (I know what you all are thinking now lol)
So here I am, sitting on my living room floor with a pile of pins scattered around, searching for my newest keepers. Thats when I noticed something weird; a bouncing tigger pin with no Pin Trading logo on the back. So i thought to myself "Weird, maybe its a fake...cheep dollar store pin or something"
So I go onto google and search how to find counterfeit pins and now here I am, reading all about scrappers and fakes from you knowledgeable folks.
My eBay seller moves 500+ pins a day, sells them all for under 50 cents a pic, packages them in small baggies, and posts generic pictures for the listings. All these factors point that the pins i got are scrappers/counterfeits. Bummer right?
Now I am going through my new pins and 'practicing' my authentic identification skills and was wondering a few things