Factory imperfections on New Soda Fountain Pumpkin Poppers?

While using the zoom feature on Ebay, i've noticed a few have things like dried glue and faint stains on them.

Anyone else catch this? Is this common with pins these days?

Free-D = always problems

markheardjr said:

Free-D = always problems

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Really? Like what?

I dislike the free-d. It falls off, it gets dirty, it's just weird.

I don't like Free-D at all; rubber always seems to come unglued easily and lighter color stain from nothing pretty much. :sad:

Why Rubber?

The rubber on pins drives me crazy too. I won't trade for or purchase pins with rubber on them anymore because so many have ended up damaged.

Just like everyone else, I too hate the free D-element on pins as well. I have never had the rubber fall of of pins but when it gets dirty or stained there is no way to get it off. I have one pin that looks terrible because it was stained black from my pin bag. If I do keep pins with a free-d element (which is rare) I keep it in plastic to avoid getting dirty or stained.

As as for the quality control of DSF pins well unfortunately it pretty common. On the recent NBC pins that came out a couple of weeks ago there was a lot of dried glue on the pins I got. I keeped having to exchange the pins thinking they were highly flawed but when I opened on up and took a closer look I noticed it was just dried glue that does come off. The same goes for some of the pins that came out yesterday at the thanksgiving release as well. Dings, dips, scratches, and glue are pretty common with DSF pins. I really wish they had a better handle on these kinds of things and managing the quality of these pins. :sad:

It gets super super grubby!!! It's a shame because those pins are so cute!!!

-Charlie

I really wanted the Dumbo pumpkin until I realized that they were FREE-D. I still want one, but I dont wanna pay much for it, cause they get dirty soooo easily.