A question about Scrappers

Not too long ago I decided to finally take a look at my many books of HM's and take out incomplete sets i'll never finish, sets I really am not interested in, and any that are suspect scrappers. I traded for everyone of these from the park, I bought pin sets and pins from the parks when I first started trading and had a friend who would take us to the old Company D store and we would load up on the 2.00-3.00 sale pins to use for traders, I was clueless on scrapers and have found I used authentic pins and traded for scrappers, now not all of them are scrappers but I found many that are scrappers, I want to know what your thought is on what to do with them, is it acceptable to trade them back to the CM's from where they came from or just keep them and do who knows with them. But I just thinking would it be fair to retrade them to get the authentic ones I did not get? but that would put them out there to kids and traders who don't know any better, I don't know. any advice. I know what the outcome wil be in my mind but I am just curious at your thoughts.

I think it would be rude to knowingly trade a scrapper back to a CM. I know it feels unfair because you spent money on the pins you traded for them, but it's just as unfair to knowingly do that to some other traders in the park, and perpetuate the cycle.

If you don't want to keep them (I have a few that I know are scrappers but I keep anyway because of the memories attached), there are a couple of people here on DPF who collect scrappers to give as prizes to the kids in their classes (not for trading) or to make art with.

Yes right after I posted this I thought to myself, I would just be contributing to the problem and thats not good, and I would have guilt knowingly handing one off to a CM, I'm just looking for others thoughts, I wouldn't really do it.

Vixy said:

I think it would be rude to knowingly trade a scrapper back to a CM. I know it feels unfair because you spent money on the pins you traded for them, but it's just as unfair to knowingly do that to some other traders in the park, and perpetuate the cycle.

If you don't want to keep them (I have a few that I know are scrappers but I keep anyway because of the memories attached), there are a couple of people here on DPF who collect scrappers to give as prizes to the kids in their classes (not for trading) or to make art with.

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What a neat idea.

I go back and forth on this all the time... I do hold onto adorable scrappers attached to good memories, but since Disney doesn't regulate whether the pins that they willingly trade with guests at their parks are fake or not, it is up to the traders to be knowledgeable and differentiate for themselves whether the pin they request to trade for is real. A couple times I've traded with CMs and asked them if the pin seemed fake, both times the CMs said yes and put it in their pocket to never be traded again.

It seems unfair to ask someone who paid good money for real pins to just hold onto scrappers when Disney hasn't found a surefire way to solve the problem. At this point, it is extremely difficult to know for a fact whether a pin on a CM lanyard is truly fake or not, so if you traded for something that doesn't fit in your collection at this time, why not trade it back? I think it would perpetuate the problem if we added new scrappers to the mix (buying it in bulk on ebay). But we traded for these at the park, so we can trade them back. :dunno:

A couple of my friends keep any scrappers they come across to decorate their coat/handbag etc....that way if they get lost its not the end of the world

I use my scrapers to teach Robbie my youngest to communicate as he can barely talk and if he knows the characters it helps,if you need to get rid of them ...look me up

When I first started trading, I had no idea what a scrapper was and didn't know about all of the fakes out there. A nice cast member filled me in on what to look for and she told me that at the end of the day, they remove the fakes from the cast member's lanyards to get them out of circulation. I now wonder how true that really is because I see a lot of fakes at the park. The cast member lanyards have around 95% fakes these days. I don't trade with them as much as I used to.