Pinpics....Guidelines for "Scrapper" designation?
My daughter has been trading on Pinpics for several years and we have really enjoyed it and have been able to make close to 100 trades and we have gotten some great pins in the process. One trend I have noticed over the years is that anyone can label a pin as a "scrapper", they can add a big alert that says that says it is being sold from China directly to the US or that they found a pin with an odd color or a spec of dust that didn't seem to fit with that of a true Disney pin, I even saw a post about a year ago in which someone commented that their pin didn't "smell like a Disney pin should"! I fall in the camp of just trading for fun and not letting the scrapper issue ruin the hobby for my kids but, in my opinion, it has become increasingly difficult (ie less fun) to trade on Pinpics becuase you have several people that receive a pin and do everything short of sending it NASA to confirm it's real becuase they saw a warning on Pinpics. We trade far less than we use to on PP and I think part of the problem is people are put off with so many pins having a warning. I wonder if it would be possible to have some sort of rating system or a more objective system for labeling a pin as a possible scrapper? For instance a check box that says "I beleive I aquired a scrapper of this pin"....If the number of people that chekced this was 200 pretty good chance it was a legit concern. If it was only 1 person probably not a real concern. I just think it is far to easy for one person to throw out a warning as the system works now, not necessarily with ill intentions but I think it would be crazy to believe that every pin Disney sold was perfect.