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Crooked pin

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Crooked pin
Shelterkat

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I was so disappointed to get this Decades pin home only to see the "60" is crooked! Is this what everyone has been talking about when they talk about poor quality lately? I wish I had noticed this in the store before I bought it.
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That is an awesome looking pin. Do you know if the 60 on the pin is crooked on all the pins or is it just your pin. If it is just your pin do you think the store would do an exchange?
 
My daughter and I bought 5 of these pins....we were doing a pick up and for trade. I think maybe one or two are on straight. One totally fell off and I have no idea where the piece went.:( I swear next time I am bringing a magnifying glass with me to check for flaws because my older eyes can't pick up these things in some of the store lighting.

I have also noticed that some of the other Diamond Decades pins we have have crooked diamonds as well.
 
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That's a bummer, i hope you can exchange it, guess i'll have to bring a magnifying glass with me on my next trip :(. But if it's any sort of consolation, it does sort of fit the whole tim burton-y nightmare before christmas vibe.
 
docfish2u said:
Great example of how Disney quality control is asleep at the switch.
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Could also be poor production decisions. How is that little piece attached? Glue? Or is is the rivets that usually hold pin-on-pin pieces together?
I have a Little Mermaid pin where Ariel is glued on top of the Shell & Ursula background. Glueing is just a cheap way to manufacture things like this. It's so unreliable. I've seen a few of the pin I own show up on ebay with Ariel missing because of this.

These parts need to either be riveted on or have the entire frame as one piece with the diamond raised slightly, but still staying as one solid piece of metal.
 
The Diamond pieces are glued on. I finally found our missing piece last night...it was on my bed. I'm starting to like this particular series less and less, especially now wondering if the diamonds will stay put. The nice thing is that they are pretty readily available, so far only one of the older releases has sold out. It's nice to go to a pin release and not have huge lines after the Diamond countdown mess.
 
Ugh, sorry you experienced that! Nothing worse than buying a pin and then realizing that there is something wrong with it after you brought it home! It would really drive my OCD bonkers!

Recently I noticed that an Alice pin that came right from the WDW rack had yellow (hair color) on her forehead. I didn't notice it until weeks later. Now it's on my "junk board". At least that one was cheap...
 
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