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a Tangled marquee for $20? seriously?

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a Tangled marquee for $20? seriously?
Disneymee said:
LOL at all the speculation and motive questioning regarding my eBay listing and sale of the Tangled Marquee pin. There are as many speculations as there are forum members. Keep posting. I am enjoying the comments.
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Wow, look at that, the seller commenting on this thread.. just rude
 
Disneymee said:
LOL at all the speculation and motive questioning regarding my eBay listing and sale of the Tangled Marquee pin. There are as many speculations as there are forum members. Keep posting. I am enjoying the comments.
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Well that was enlightening. Thanks for your contribution. Are you strictly a seller or do you have a collection? Would love your pinpics ID. Welcome to the forum! :naughty:
 
Disneymee said:
LOL at all the speculation and motive questioning regarding my eBay listing and sale of the Tangled Marquee pin. There are as many speculations as there are forum members. Keep posting. I am enjoying the comments.
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Well, I too am interested to know the motive behind the pricing but there's no need to act rude or smug about it... :down:
 
Nathan95 said:
So you're getting a kick out of this? Stuff like that pisses people off. If you're getting some kind of kick or enjoyment out of people's confusion and shock that's sick
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Why on earth would a person selling a pin for cheap piss people off??? The only people I can see it pissing off are the people that want the price to stay sky high because they have one to sell or trade...


julie2121 said:
Wow, look at that, the seller commenting on this thread.. just rude
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Am I the only one that doesn't think that the comment was rude, if it even is the seller? Wouldn't the thread itself, discussing someone's listing and motives in public be MORE rude than the person being talked about commenting on the thread.


I don't get it...
 
erudolf said:
Why on earth would a person selling a pin for cheap piss people off??? The only people I can see it pissing off are the people that want the price to stay sky high because they have one to sell or trade...
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I wasn't talking about the price pissing people off I was talking about the seller commenting on how they were enjoying the speculation pissing people off.
 
erudolf said:
Why on earth would a person selling a pin for cheap piss people off??? The only people I can see it pissing off are the people that want the price to stay sky high because they have one to sell or trade...




Am I the only one that doesn't think that the comment was rude, if it even is the seller? Wouldn't the thread itself, discussing someone's listing and motives in public be MORE rude than the person being talked about commenting on the thread.


I don't get it...
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Well, saying that you are laughing at others when they are just curious and specifically the part, "Keep posting, I am enjoying the comments" is...a wee bit smug in my opinion. It almost seems that this person is looking down on others who were just curious and ... well ... rightly so, don't you think? I mean, a pin that goes normally for $400.00 to $500.00 selling at a mere $20.00? That's pretty amazing. I'm curious to know why they sold it at that price but I make no assumptions either. I just, personally, thought that the last part of that comment could have been left out. Also, just saying why they listed it at that price probably would of put an end to the speculation and people's comments, guesses or assumptions. Although, I see it from your side too. It probably isn't very nice to guess that the person is selling it for "bad" reasons (ie: to devalue the pin). Perhaps, they did it just to give one lucky buyer a break since not many of us can afford a $400.00 to $500.00 pin? I know that's not common but you never know. I try to believe the best in most people until they give me a reason to think otherwise.
 
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Tangled marquee is a wonderful pin, but in comparsion to many many more wonderful Jumbo DA LE 100 pins, it pales in every way. Even then, an artificially hightened value is assigned to it. It is LE 300, there is an official scrapper warning on Pinpics and last auction style sale was in the $160 range. All of a sudden, we hear that it is $400 worth. Why ?? I am curious ..... There is one reason I can think of: Most of the people who own the pin, also put it in their wants to make it look more desired.

Apart from that ... since market manipulation was in question at the beginning of the thread, here is another little tid bit about another Rapunzel pin: Remember a Rapunzel R/C was listed on Ebay a while back at $200 opening bid and then all of a sudden the listing got cancelled and seller told people that he got an offer at $5000 or something like that. I personally thought that it was the finest kind of baloney :lol:

See this thread starting at post #23 here: http://disneypinforum.com/showthread.php?17620-Reveal-Conceal-Princess-Pins&highlight=rapunzel+Ebay

Then I looked at the seller's id and it looked awfully familiar. It matches the Pinpics e-mail of someone who is on this forum and this dawned on me when that person sent me a Pinpics request for a marquee pin I was trading. So, I understand when it comes to these coveted pins, people play on Ebay all the time to raise prices and spread rumors. Not a good practice :nono:

Moral of this story comes from Matthew: First take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye.
 
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I find it more plausible that the seller created a fake ebay sale for the shipping confirmation/insurance rather than devaluing a pin... One thread is not going to bring the value down when there are so many that are much higher. I'd be much more concerned with sellers creating a BIN w/ a much higher price and fake sells to inflate its price.
 
sometimes, sellers put cheap prices because you have to pay for listing at certain prices, also sellers tend to set it low to drum up bidding, lets be honest, we all bid on cheaper listed pins first
 
fireheadfred said:
sometimes, sellers put cheap prices because you have to pay for listing at certain prices, also sellers tend to set it low to drum up bidding, lets be honest, we all bid on cheaper listed pins first
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This would be true if it were an auction style listing, where people can bid and the price can go up over time. But this was 'buy it now,' so the seller wouldn't have listed it so cheap for either of the reasons you mentioned.
 
I'm new to pin collecting so..... I was just wondering why is Tangled so desirable compared to so many others? I saw one for sale for 375.00 I think. I didn't realize it was so popular.
 
pin2pin1 said:
I'm new to pin collecting so..... I was just wondering why is Tangled so desirable compared to so many others? I saw one for sale for 375.00 I think. I didn't realize it was so popular.
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It's just a really popular movie. Also, it's a princess movie! Princesses are very popular in the Disney pin world. It's also a hard movie to collect because, like some other movies, there aren't many pins for it. These are all the Tangled pins: http://pinpics.com/cgi-bin/group.cgi?group=5503, which as you can see isn't very many!

Hope that helps :)
 
leopardpolkadotspots said:
It IS possible. I just bought this pin -->
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paid £8 for it. Seller didn't know how valuable it was :) So there is a chance that the seller selling the marquee didn't know as well..
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Lucky!!!!
 
You know exactly what you listed. If it's deep-fried potato chips, looks like a chairman, a car, a coin or a needle, carefully studied for a while, you list.
 
It's also popular because with so few pins and it being fairly new, it is still possible to complete the Tangled collection. The newer of a trader you are the harder it will be for you to ever have every pin from a collection, so the newer the movie, the fewer the pins, the easier it is to obtain every single one. Same goes with Brave. Although I'm not sure with so many people trading Brave pins that it will hold it's value like Tangled. I know that people will disagree with my about Brave, but let's have this conversation again in a year or 2 when it's had time to establish itself.
 
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