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Disney Auctions

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Sorry, I searched and didnt find anything.

Im relatively new to pin trading. We started years ago just collecting a few while in the parks, but really back into it recently. What are the Disney Auctions P.I.N.S?

Some of the ones I want are listed as such. Is this a separate site etc? Thank you to anyone who can point me in the right direction.
 
From my understanding Disney Auctions are pins that were sold via Ebay in the main by Disney Auctions. I think this shut down 5 years ago possibly wrong about the time frame. The pins are still very much sort after but obviously can only be bought on the secondary market or traded for hope this helps.

Karl
 
A fair few years back now disney used to sell limited edition pins on ebay, these were the disney auctions.
They havent done that for many years now so you can only get them on the secondary market,

Some of the members here that were collecting in the auctions will be able to give you more details on the subject but thats the shot version!
 
It was the same site, P(purchase) I(it) N(now) S(I don't remember what the s stood for). It was started after Disney Auctions decided instead of doing just auctions they would have LE pins that you could just purchase for a set price. They were usually LE 250-1000.
 
Purchase It Now Store was like a precursor to Disney selling pins on their website. This site was run through eBay. P.I.N.S. was like a "Buy It Now" store with certain pins. Usually the P.I.N.S. were a higher edition size than the auctioned ones. The pins offered at this time were some of the best I'd ever seen. Here's a pic of what the front page had looked like years ago in October of 2004:

 
Disney removed Disney Auctions from eBay in early 2006 and several weeks later reconstituted it somewhere on Disney's own portal. Disney's attempt to run a para mutual auction site on its own did not turn out very well.

It's been 7 years, so my memory is a bit fuzzy, but I think they changed the rules (to be different from eBay's rules) so that the final bid was not the lowest bid from the high bidder (that was actually the highest bid received for the item) but rather the maximum bid of the high bidder. This often resulted in dramatic jumps in price of the items in the final seconds, at least until bidders caught onto this and lowered their maximum bid.

Then there was the problem of fake bidding. Some clown would bid an insane amount for all 75 LE 100 sets, never pay for them, and all 75 sets would show up as available in the next 'remainder sale'. This happened multiple times.

But what finally caused Disney to pull the plug on Disney Auctions, sometime during the Fall of 2006, was that they started not being able to locate the pins they auctioned off after the auctions ended. This happened several times. Many months later some portion of these pins surfaced on Disney Shopping for a fixed price.

Despite all the above problems, many of us kept buying the pins because we felt that the DA LE 100s were the most beautiful pins Disney had ever produced.
 

Wow, thats crazy.

I know what you mean bout the pins though. Everytime I see one I like (and add to my WL) it seems to be a DA pin. Ha
 
I've heard Disneyshoppings downfall was that they allowed people to return them at local stores so people would speculate and buy multiples of a pin, try to resell or trade and if the pin tanked they would just return it.
 
Despite all the above problems, many of us kept buying the pins because we felt that the DA LE 100s were the most beautiful pins Disney had ever produced.
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These truly are some of the prettiest pins Disney has ever made! I wish Disney would start making pins like these again ... with different artwork so they are "new" pins, lol!
 
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