Gomes pins and another DA 100 pin - my own question
I never asked before, but in light of other events, I will put it out there. Lest anyone else be accused of something, just because they didn't put a huge expose with their concerns without any proof than hairs on the back of their neck.
Last year, there was a period when traders were going a little gaga for certain Gomes pins. Feb or Marchish I think. Selling stuff to afford certain ones, trading for their grails, etc. I hadn't looked at the prices for them in years. Last time, I paid attention all the ones I wanted were way, way out of reach. So for a couple weeks I started looking, and I noticed that there were several auctions, more than I was comfortable with for this pin: http://pinpics.com/cgi-bin/pin.cgi?pin=49689&sid=3550
There were like 3 or 4 active, and then several more in completed. So about 15% of the total pin run had sold or was for sale within the 3 months Ebay stores listings. I checked today and there was only 1 in completed, so it does not seem like there continues to be a large number of these. I'm not so much concerned with large re-runs of this pin, but I do wonder what about the actual factory seconds that would have existed at the time Disney's run was completed. This pin was originally sold in 2007 so it would have been after the time when people clued on to how much money could be made from selling the remainders.
Also, I have similar concerns surrounding this pin, and maybe the other ones in the set: http://pinpics.com/cgi-bin/pin.cgi?pin=23316&sid=3667
Similar time frame, and a similar number of them seemed to be showing up. I have looked off and on, and this one and a few others from this set seem to show up with BIN prices below $20 and even $15, from time to time, which seems low for a DA100 pin, IMO. Even an unpopular one. And sold by a seller that I have my questions about.
I know these two pins aren't going to be on most people's radar, but if anyone has been seeing a lot of these in trade books. Or was keeping track of DA sales back in the day, and knew if some seller's were buying 20 of them at once (with unpopular styles, this may be a possibility). Although, I would still find it a little too coincidental that someone happened to be liquidating that particular style when I was looking for it.
Last year, there was a period when traders were going a little gaga for certain Gomes pins. Feb or Marchish I think. Selling stuff to afford certain ones, trading for their grails, etc. I hadn't looked at the prices for them in years. Last time, I paid attention all the ones I wanted were way, way out of reach. So for a couple weeks I started looking, and I noticed that there were several auctions, more than I was comfortable with for this pin: http://pinpics.com/cgi-bin/pin.cgi?pin=49689&sid=3550
There were like 3 or 4 active, and then several more in completed. So about 15% of the total pin run had sold or was for sale within the 3 months Ebay stores listings. I checked today and there was only 1 in completed, so it does not seem like there continues to be a large number of these. I'm not so much concerned with large re-runs of this pin, but I do wonder what about the actual factory seconds that would have existed at the time Disney's run was completed. This pin was originally sold in 2007 so it would have been after the time when people clued on to how much money could be made from selling the remainders.
Also, I have similar concerns surrounding this pin, and maybe the other ones in the set: http://pinpics.com/cgi-bin/pin.cgi?pin=23316&sid=3667
Similar time frame, and a similar number of them seemed to be showing up. I have looked off and on, and this one and a few others from this set seem to show up with BIN prices below $20 and even $15, from time to time, which seems low for a DA100 pin, IMO. Even an unpopular one. And sold by a seller that I have my questions about.
I know these two pins aren't going to be on most people's radar, but if anyone has been seeing a lot of these in trade books. Or was keeping track of DA sales back in the day, and knew if some seller's were buying 20 of them at once (with unpopular styles, this may be a possibility). Although, I would still find it a little too coincidental that someone happened to be liquidating that particular style when I was looking for it.