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R/C Girls pins - just ended

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For not bad prices - Pocahontas ended at $59.03; Esmeralda at $51.

Rapunzel - wow, $1826!
Giselle - $129.99

UGH, I can't believe I forgot to increase my bid for Pocahontas. I wonder if the seller will go through with the sale or be like the last one....
 
mylittletyguy said:
What is the DEAL with $1800 for the one pin in the set...did they make less of that one or something!!??
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The Rapunzel conceal pin is the hardest of the set to find. It is the chaser pin. The pin is VERY limited. No one knows exactly, but from what I've heard, there are very few. $1,800 is definitely a lot of money for a pin... I agree with you there!
 
There was another Rapunzel that sold for $1800? I didn't even see her listed. I wanted to bid on Giselle but I'm broke after getting my Rapunzel r/c. Plus $129.99 isn't too bad for Giselle. She was going at $200.00 pretty recently but seems that she's coming down in value again. So is Ariel. Ariel was going for over $200 for a long time :o
 
I mentioned this in another thread back when there were three ended Rapunzel reveal/conceal pins on Ebay. Two out of the three looked to have been won by the same person because the codes Ebay uses in place of usernames and the number of feedback shown after that in () was the same. Now guess what? The auction that just ended tonight at over $1800 shows the winning bidder as that same person!!!!! A kinda strange thing about it, though, is that the feedback number is the same still. I guess that person didn't have enough money left to buy and receive anything else in the meantime. :) This just all seems really weird, if the same person really has won all three of those pins!
 
disneydreamer said:
I mentioned this in another thread back when there were three ended Rapunzel reveal/conceal pins on Ebay. Two out of the three looked to have been won by the same person because the codes Ebay uses in place of usernames and the number of feedback shown after that in () was the same. Now guess what? The auction that just ended tonight at over $1800 shows the winning bidder as that same person!!!!! A kinda strange thing about it, though, is that the feedback number is the same still. I guess that person didn't have enough money left to buy and receive anything else in the meantime. :) This just all seems really weird, if the same person really has won all three of those pins!
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That is kind of...odd O___o I have to say I'm quite shocked and I wouldn't be shocked if the same person is hording these Rapunzel pins. If you think about it, with how much they have spent on them, I wouldn't be shocked if they plan on waiting a while and then auctioning them off very close to one another in hopes of making more money back. However, if that is their plan, I wouldn't count my chickens before they hatch, because once Rapunzel isn't popular anymore, the price of that pin will drop a bit. However, that is really weird, do you think they want to have all the Rapunzel Chasers in the world?
 
kupo1121 said:
That is kind of...odd O___o I have to say I'm quite shocked and I wouldn't be shocked if the same person is hording these Rapunzel pins. If you think about it, with how much they have spent on them, I wouldn't be shocked if they plan on waiting a while and then auctioning them off very close to one another in hopes of making more money back. However, if that is their plan, I wouldn't count my chickens before they hatch, because once Rapunzel isn't popular anymore, the price of that pin will drop a bit. However, that is really weird, do you think they want to have all the Rapunzel Chasers in the world?
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I have absolutely no idea what could be going on. Unless I'd won a lottery drawing for a gazillion dollars or something, I can't even imagine spending that kind of money for one pin I wanted dearly, let alone three of the same!!! It totally boggles the mind. Just crazy!
 
Sounds like it's...um...like bid padding or scamming or whatever.


I post something, friends bid on it, then use my one friend to make the bid rediculouly insane, they buy pin. But I relist, they' buy' pin again. Over and over and over again...


And what really happens is there is probably only 1 pin, 3-4 guys, multiple accounts, and the pin never actually changes hands. They wait for a poor sucker to come along to either BID on theirs or post their own and if the bids don't get high enough on the other one they snap it up OR people bid highly and blindly on the new one by the same people.


It looks like it could honestly be a few people working together :/


do it enough times and people believe the pin is worth that and then people are more willing to lay down real bids.
 
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Romancing_Train said:
Sounds like it's...um...like bid padding or scamming or whatever.


I post something, friends bid on it, then use my one friend to make the bid rediculouly insane, they buy pin. But I relist, they' buy' pin again. Over and over and over again...


And what really happens is there is probably only 1 pin, 3-4 guys, multiple accounts, and the pin never actually changes hands. They wait for a poor sucker to come along to either BID on theirs or post their own and if the bids don't get high enough on the other one they snap it up OR people bid highly and blindly on the new one by the same people.


It looks like it could honestly be a few people working together :/


do it enough times and people believe the pin is worth that and then people are more willing to lay down real bids.
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Wow!! Yeah, it's got to be some sort of scheme. I wonder if the one pin that wasn't won by this same person was actually won by someone who really wanted it and actually paid for it? That pin went for $1426!
 
Romancing_Train said:
Sounds like it's...um...like bid padding or scamming or whatever.


I post something, friends bid on it, then use my one friend to make the bid rediculouly insane, they buy pin. But I relist, they' buy' pin again. Over and over and over again...


And what really happens is there is probably only 1 pin, 3-4 guys, multiple accounts, and the pin never actually changes hands. They wait for a poor sucker to come along to either BID on theirs or post their own and if the bids don't get high enough on the other one they snap it up OR people bid highly and blindly on the new one by the same people.


It looks like it could honestly be a few people working together :/


do it enough times and people believe the pin is worth that and then people are more willing to lay down real bids.
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I can partially debunk this theory as one of the sellers who sold two of the R/C Rapunzel pins is a friend of mine and an honest seller. She wouldn't partake in a scheme of that sort. She was honestly floored at what they went for and incredibly nervous to ship them. Also, she was none too happy that one of the other sellers listing Rapunzel basically stole her listing right down to the item description word for word. So I can vouch that she wasn't in with the other sellers.
 
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I also personally know the seller of the 2 Rapunzel pins (yes, there were 2 pins) and the buyer is for real and paid for both - and really wanted those pins...
 
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Where the heck did that one come from??? I did a search on Rapunzel and it didn't show up. The person who won that one also got one from my friend as well as the 2nd seller (the description hijacker) - so one person got the Rapunzel from 3 different sellers. A second buyer got the 2nd Rapunzel from my friend, but the other person bid on that one too...unbelievable :facepalm:
 
TheOtherSteve said:
Where the heck did that one come from??? I did a search on Rapunzel and it didn't show up. The person who won that one also got one from my friend as well as the 2nd seller (the description hijacker) - so one person got the Rapunzel from 3 different sellers. A second buyer got the 2nd Rapunzel from my friend, but the other person bid on that one too...unbelievable :facepalm:
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So... what it seems to me is that it's really just one person jacking up the prices, buying them...and irritating the other bidders who really want it? Are they... trying to see how high people will bid for it so that they can then re-sell at those values...? I hope that isn't the case, that's messed up :(
Honestly, you could get pretty much whatever you want by trading this pin as no other single pin alone rivals it in value. However, if you are seeking to get your value's worth in trades for this pin, I'd think that would be tough for just *one* pin trader. What are the chances that a single pin trader has $1500 to $1800 in pins that you'd want...? I mean, it's not impossible but ... it just doesn't seem likely. I somehow think that this individual isn't buying them for trade is my point.
 
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Another WOW!!!!! Thanks, Aquata and TheOtherSteve, for letting us know that these Rapunzel pin auctions were really the real deal! I'm sorry about my thinking they might have been underhanded in some way. It's just so amazing that the bids went as high as they did. Even though it's hard to believe someone would pay that much for a pin, everybody loves what they love, and I completely understand how they could feel that way. Kudos to them for being able to afford their obsession!
 
Wow!!! Good thing that I've held on to my Giselle R/C pin. I had forgotten I had it for a while. I'm glad i still have it with this craze :eek2:
 
To be certain that one person is buying them, is easy enough, just keep checking the seller's feedback for these Rapunzel auctions and eventually you will have a name instead of just 2 letters and some dashes and a feedback score. That's what I do when I see someone pay a lot for a pin that I really want. Also lets me know if they're a DPF member because a lot of the times people use the same name or variations of it.
 
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