Dealbreaker? really?
But I have a Question - Each backer card is unique to each pin ( SKU Number ) How do you keep them straight?
Barbara
I have a question for all of you who insist on only doing trades where the backer cards are included, specifically the generic black ones (not the decorative one): When you get your pin in the trade, whether in person or via mail, do you actually go check the SKU numbers to make sure they match? And if they don't (let's say someone just wanted the trade and didn't care that they were lying to you and just had the pin on a random black backer card), do you call out the trader and make them send your pin back and send them theirs? I'm just wondering, I'm not being sarcastic or anything.
I had someone pull out of a trade recently because of this. It sucks! I don't throw my cards away, they go in a box, but I got a good pin off a staff lanyard and I also purchased a bunch of pins from an older lady and gent and they didn't keep their backer cards. For me the only thing that matters is that the pin I want is available to me. The only exception to ths rule is special backer cards, art work, boxes or post cards, tho it's not honestly a deal breaker if I really want the pin.
Eecially since I take all of my pins off their cards to display them lol!
For all the ones which I personally bought - in the store or online, I keep the backer card (Disney Shopping/Store/Auctions/DSF). A lot of pins I traded for had the original backer card (Disney Shopping). When I take the pin off the card (even for the "regular" pins), I label the backer card with a post-it note to identify which pin was originally on the card [yes, I know it has a SKU and can probably be looked up that way, but this is easier]). Then, all the backer cards go into a large ziploc bag.
I do this for all my keepers!
For the black plastic backers from either disney shopping or auction pins, I just wrote what pin it was on the back of the backer with a pencil. I kept my backers almost from the beginning. Even for pins in my trader books, if I have the cards there are in the zipper pocket adjacent to the page so if I trade I can give the backer card as well.
To make matters worse, I actually saved the foam envelope and the clear ziploc bags that the disneyshopping pins came in as well. I guess I am a little of a type A personality.
I can not understand how and why some people feel more entitled than others.
nWoJeffDW said:The whole "keeping/needing the backer card" is something that has developed over the past few years in response to two ways of thinking:
1. The overwhelming paranoia that every pin in the world has been scrapped or counterfeited and the only way to guarantee a real pin is with the card.
2. The need to resell the pin and so the backer card is necessary to make it seem you were the original owner.
In the early days of pin trading only specialty cards were kept and even then not all the time. People traded pin for pin out of books and you didn't often see cards change hands with it. If you mailed a pin, you grabbed any backer to send it on as support to survive the post office, not because it mattered. Of course you always had a few that kept everything but they were usually the OCD traders.
I think it's ok to want a specialty card if that's how you're displaying your collection. But some people have just taken it to a ridiculous extreme and miss out on owning a great pin all because of a plastic or paper card that was never meant to matter.
To make matters worse, I actually saved the foam envelope and the clear ziploc bags that the disneyshopping pins came in as well. I guess I am a little of a type A personality.
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