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does anyone trade anymore???

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does anyone trade anymore???
I used to trade (here and through pin pics), but recently with trying to save for a surprise vacation, and being unemployed, it makes it kind of hard to trade when selling just makes more sense right now =/
 
I get a lot of lop-sided requests too that just floor me. They want my PTD's for a hidden Mickey. It does get frustrating because I really do enjoy the trading. I am not into the buying and selling for a profit thing. I do sometimes try to sell small pins that I can't seem to trade but that's it. It seems like the cost of pins has gone crazy so people want so much when they trade. If you don't have a ton of high end pins (which I don't), then it limits what you can get. I am not complaining, that's just how it is. I think that is why I get more enjoyment out of trading the smaller OE pins.






markheardjr said:
I just send out tons of trade emails, should be in peoples inboxes tomorrow. I don't like the new pinpics site at all. People were happy to check their email inbox in the morning but the new site requires you to log into their site daily to see requests. No thanks.
Another issue with the overseas trading is the huge spike in shipping costs. It used to be like $3-$5 to ship to Europe, now it's $6-$9. And Euro traders have realy tightened up lately on their LE stuff. So they want more but it costs more to ship to them. Double whammy.
But I agree people now-a-days just want to buy and sell. Which is sad for those of you not near a park. We lucky ones still get to trade frequently in person at the parks and at DSF here in SoCal. Buying and selling is impersonal and you don't have to worry about losing a pin as much since paypal/ebay protection/rules are in place. But I'd rather trade.
I feel the majority of offers I get online for pin trading are increasingly lopsided though. So many offers for hidden mickey's or older park rack pins for HTF or low LE pins. I know some are newer people but some are just the same request every single day. I don't even open some peoples emails anymore. Someone from Florida, has DD in his name, that guy sends tons of crazy lopsided stuff everyday. Gets old and probably turns off many newer traders with the constant garbage.
But, we haven't had as many good pins as we have had in 2011/2012. 2013 has been a dry year with just spikes here and there. 2011/2012 we had good park releases, PODMs, etc. 2013 the park releases that are good are few and far between and the monthly series are awful. Those easel pins? and the shield surprise ones? WDI has really limited the D23 shopping days and pin releases. Seems they focused too much on D23 pin releases which kind of bombed other than the designer set, Art of Ariel and maybe La Luna. Poor offerings have kind of dried up the middle market. Hidden Mickey's are gobbled up so fast lately that even those are harder to find/trade. All that is left is DSF pins and a few highlights like the DLRP lockets, various Tangled pins, etc. I don't do Villains so all the villain pins to me were targeted at others.
I think less Tangled stuff may help bring some of the other collections back to the forefront. All anyone wants to do lately is talk Tangled, Ariel, or Grail. I feel like people try to label a pin right away as junk or double it's cost + up to instant grail. If it doesn't double in value it's hardly worth getting or trading. While I tend to agree, lots of junky pin designs lately, not every pin is a winner. Seems less are interested in the middle-of-the-road pins and just focus on grails. The one-uppers and elitests will drive the newer folks away. Which doesn't help anything.
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Maybe I'm the oddball, but I probably do 5 trades a week. Given, I have a huge wants list, and about a third of my collection is listed as traders (for the right trade). Now I don't trade in the expensive, really hard to find stuff as everyone seems unwilling to even discuss those trades, so I'm content dealing in much more common pins and doing a lot of trades. Have met some really great people doing it.
 
I've given up trading, I get requests and reply to them and then I don't get a reply back. Do I sound really rude when I type or something? :/
 
I would love to keep trading, as that is the fun of the hobby, but unfortunately, my "True" wants list, i.e. Scrooges, etc are dwindling, and it is getting harder to find those who have them and are willing to trade. However, I still respond to every request I get and still try to work deals when I can
 
Being quite far from the parks is what had me switch to primarily buying vs trading. I don't have access to great/good traders without paying $$$ for them and the cost just doesn't justify buying a pin outright sometimes... I still trade with random pin games here and there though...
 
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Ive got pins people want but then people just tell me no even if the trade is worthwhile and only after the few left on my wants list then I will stop trading all together and stick to buying
 
I think it has to do with the new pin pics. Honestly i really hate it. Yeah it is an interesting set up, but it is really annoying. I can't find half the stuff I am looking for, random pins that in no way match my search keep coming up, you can't just look at your matches with someone and it is weird. I always get the e-mails but then when I signed into the new one I had trade requests there that never went to my phone... I really hate it. It is a pain in the butt.
 
I pretty much just keep my PinPics as a catalogue of haves and wants. I've never accomplished a trade online, and with maybe one exception never even get a reply. I've considered deliberately buying traders (i.e.: looking at what was in demand before I went to DLP and picking up extras) but I just can't bring myself to spend the money for stock that I probably won't be able to move. I've found that just because people say they want a pin, that's no guarantee they'll even reply to an offer to trade it to them. Rather than spend the money on traders, I'm just better off buying the actual pins I want. In the end it'd probably be cheaper.
 
CoryTheRaven said:
I pretty much just keep my PinPics as a catalogue of haves and wants. I've never accomplished a trade online, and with maybe one exception never even get a reply. I've considered deliberately buying traders (i.e.: looking at what was in demand before I went to DLP and picking up extras) but I just can't bring myself to spend the money for stock that I probably won't be able to move. I've found that just because people say they want a pin, that's no guarantee they'll even reply to an offer to trade it to them. Rather than spend the money on traders, I'm just better off buying the actual pins I want. In the end it'd probably be cheaper.
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My girlfriend and I used to buy DSF pins that we thought would trade well (when we started) but we had the same issue. Just because people say they want them doesn't mean they want them enough to trade. =( Now I have a bunch of pins I can't move & only really buy what I want.
 
I sent over 100 requests this week. Only got 4 replies with "No." I almost never get someone accepting my requests, I have to accept theirs. The one person that did accept turned out to be a scammer.
 
Sorry we don't have matches, but I did look at others comments and used this opportunity to see if I could make a possible trade.
 
I've gotta thank tbear420 for starting this thread... Even though I unfortunately could not set up a trade with you, I was able to set up another trade and make some more good contacts.

Threads like this are good from time to time to revive trade activity IMO, so thank you tbear for everybody you helped by starting this.
 
once again thanks to everyone that has replied to this thread. i have traded more in the last 2 days than i have in the last 2 months. im also happy to see others have also made some trades from this. i was going to close the thread but i will leave it open hoping more trades will be made through it. im sure that will be okay with the admins!!!
 
I sent out a ton of trade requests 3 days ago, some on the old sight and some on the new sight and I got back only one reply from the new sight. I'm getting ready to just give up on online trading, at least on pinics that is.
 
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