All of these marquee's are inflated based on the price of one single Up marquee sale in April. Then a new batch of marquee collectors came along in just the last 6-9 months and are paying very high prices. I've seen at least 10 tangled marquee's on here and eBay in the last 5 months. Probably 6 or 7 Wall-E's. These pins aren't as rare as the prices they are pulling in. Now, the UP marquee, which actually deserves the kind of money people are asking, I've only seen 2 or 3. Honestly looking at Trades/Wants the Enchanted Marquee should be #2. I am very surprised at the number of people willing to shell out $300-$500 for Wall-E and Tangled. Tangled was selling all day for $150-$165 in March/April. Wall-E I think was #2, but since all of them are coming out of the woodwork thanks to high prices it's demoted to #3. Enchanted was a sleeper grail but with 0 trading the 2 or 3 I've seen for sale have increased dramatically in price, the last one went for $308.
I got both Meet the Robinsons and Ratatouille for $15 in February this year. I think a few factors are driving these crazy prices. 1. The UP marquee that legitametly should be $400 that sold in April, it's value is attributed to other marquee's. The UP marquee should cost that much because of the few that are actually in the trading community. I REALLY wish pinpics had an "Owns" number for that pin. The Tangled and Wall-E, etc. were on the racks for days and traders that knew then bought multiples. They are not as hard to find because of the number in the trading community. Now they are going up because of the sheer number of people wanting them. 2. (And probably most accurate!) A new breed of DSF buyers/traders/sellers that flip every DSF release for profit and then have money to waste on pins. $400 to them is just selling their 2 sets of NBC books this month. So they pay $115 for 2 sets of hinged NBC books and get a Tangled or Walle marquee out of it. The sale price may be $400 but it cost them $115 start to finish.
#2 sucks for everyone that isn't close to DSF/DLR and can't just buy and flip pins all the time. And these resellers/buyers are just jacking up the prices for everyone else. I will remain patient, if I never get my final marquee's I'll be fine. There is no reason Little Mermaid (white background), Tron, etc should be selling for over $100. (Tinker bell rescue @ $80? WTF?) We're in the time of "I want" and I don't see it stopping until either these people finally get all the marquee's they want or they run out of money. With the steady flow of DSF pins for them to flip it's gonna be the first option. Although I see them get multiples of these HTF marquee's just to brag about it. Everyone else just be patient. You'll find your marquee's in the long run, or their attention will finally be on something else. PODM pins sort of took some attention away but the resellers just use those for profit now too. Hence their explosion recently.
Mark's List:
1. UP
2. Enchanted
3. Wall-E
4. Tangled
5. Cars
6. Dumbo
