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Have you ever had Pin Regret??

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Have you ever had Pin Regret??
OlafOlaf said:
I regret trading a lot when I started this hobby. Basically because most traders took advantage of my ignorance. That's also why I'm extremely paranoid and picky when I trade something that has a higher value.

Specifically, I regret trading DLRP Anna & Olaf. Not because I liked the pin but because it was a shitty experience and I realised I traded under value (basically because I was tired of the situation and just wanted to get rid of it). And I regret trading the UK Rapunzel & Maximus.
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I'm always nervous about trading, no matter what, i always consult some friends or more girlfriend(I've been pin trading since last Nov.) so i always try to get a 2nd opinion, maybe you should consult some of us before you trade or have a close pin trading buddy that is always a phone call away! :)
 
MadWild said:
It's not a huge regret, but my first trade was very lopsided in the other person's favour as I sent an LE 500 UK exclusive and 2 full price OE Paris pins in return for three pins that were in a clearance sale on the US DS website. I didn't know better at the time although I did notice that the total of what I was spending equated to a fair bit more than they were. I wish I'd had the guts to say something at the time. Ho hum, you live and learn. I try and make sure trades are fair now whenever I arrange them, and have felt much happier about trades I've done since :).
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your advice will be written down for future references, me and my gf are hard to shy away from a situation like that, its really bad, but i guess its better to be a open book right?
 
SiuJerkJai said:
The only pin I regret trading is one I gave my daughter. I've tried to get it back, but she's a tough negotiator. :) (We did have to have a talk this morning about how it's not okay to shark her little brother. She thought about it for a while and then of her own free will gave back the pins she'd taken from him.)
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she's a better pin trader then me :( but it is nice you teach her the good and bad of pin trading!
 
AgentOfAnarchy said:
when i was a newbie i went to a trading event and someone convinced me that trading the le 300 jessica jumbo as tink was a good trade for an le 1000 and open edition hercules . i regret that i didn't trade that harder. but live and learn :)
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man, i went to the last PTN at DLR and it was hard to trade their, people traded better at the tables then the actually event i feel :dunno:
 
Poohlady5 said:
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I bought this pin at DLR- for cost- and would wear it on my lanyard at the park. Back when I only had a lanyards worth of pins. I ran into a gal from Japan who had Winnie the Pooh pins from Japan on her lanyard. So we traded. I wasn't trading on-line yet so at the time, had no other way to get Japan pins. I love the Pooh pin I received but later, when I was online, the Pooh pin would have been fairly easy to buy or trade for. But the SB pin cost me a pretty penny to get back.
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i can't imagine that, I've had some pretty event trades across the board, but man, i can't imagine that happening to me, but I'm glad that you had received your pin back even if it was a cost :sad:
 
Disnerd1989 said:
I bought a full set of Summer of Champions in 2008. I wasn't a proper collector back then and I traded them all with CMs bar one. I don't remember what I got for them, but I'd say it was all scrappers. I know the Summer of Champion pins aren't that great and I'm not all that bothered about them, but I regret trading so many real pins for scrappers!
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Hey disnerd, I do have two of them if you are still missing them...
 
timeerkat said:
I have three big ones:

Back when I first started trading, I actually traded a Timon & Pumbaa Wild About Safety pin because I didn't live near Disneyland at the time and didn't think I'd be able to complete the set. I still kick myself about that!

Another one from my early days of pin trading, I had a Stitch pin that a friend gave me and I really liked but found a cast member who had another pin I really liked (can't even remember what that one was), so I traded my Stitch pin for it. Looking back I really wish I had bought another pin from the store to trade and kept the pin my friend gave me.

And a few years ago, before I knew about pin sharks, I traded the I Won't Say I'm In Love musical moments pin for the Maximus pin that comes in the Rapunzel rack set. :/
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my girlfriend always monitored my trades to make sure my pin trades were in fair value, she's bought me some pins i wish i still had cause their my first pins, but ill get them back eventually :roll:
 
Firebaby22 said:
I traded the cutest pin ever. Stitch and the yeti looking at each other and the yeti is very sternly eyeing him. Stitch is hiding a snowball behind his back. I traded it for something else I really wanted so didn't feel terrible about it but then really had to hustle to find that one again.
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sounds adorable!ive never seen the pin(but then again there are so many stitch pins) but I'm glad you had got it back!
 
momin.ator said:
Kim, you cracked me up. My teenager does this to her sister all the time. I finally had to say, "No more trading."
Also, I only "give" my children my pins with the condition that if I want it back or they don't want it anymore, I
get it back. lol :)

As far as trading regrets. I usually have them a lot because I hate making decisions.
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me too! with some occasions, especially a trade thread i want to post up of my own grail, but my gf tells me when i post it I'm going to regret it because ill still want my pin back
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Arendelle said:
I made so many mistakes when I first started. I traded LE 100's for "pretty princesses" and then asked for crazy things when online trading because I was always asked for crazy things in person, or I would make ridiculous offers that were so over the top, because I didn't want to be turned down and then I would wish that I hadn't offered. I was so confused when I started and I can't say that I'm that great at offers now...I really prefer if someone else sets up the offer and then I can just decide if I want the trade or not. I guess I still have a lot to learn. I also like to think about it for a little while (which is what makes conventions and meets hard. (or maybe I'm just lousy at decisions!)
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i feel the same way, i hate trying to make trades, so i just usually sit at the tables at DLR and people make offers because i still don't know a lot about pin trading, so I'm usually like this:
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also #TeamElsa:naughty:
 
markheardjr said:
The one I regret the most was my PODM with red Pascal and Rapunzel in the forest. I sold it here, to someone who said it was their grail scene, I assume they were telling the truth. I got a lot of money for it, so I'm not super bummed about it. But looking back it was my favorite of the PODM's I got. I asked my wife to pick her favorite and she chose Rapunzel healing Flynn's hand with all her hair glowing. I liked the Red Pascal most. But it's ok.
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that is a great scene! its sad to always let a pin go, especially a podm, just ask @princessdorothy! haha
 
docfish2u said:
I think everybody has a regret or two or ten depending on how long you have been trading. There have been lots of pins that became much more popular later then when I traded them. I try to put those our of my mind. :lol:




Kim, I gotta know, what is the pin you gave your daughter?
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thats true! but theres always 1 pin that every pin trader regrets trading!
 
docfish2u said:
I think everybody has a regret or two or ten depending on how long you have been trading. There have been lots of pins that became much more popular later then when I traded them. I try to put those our of my mind. :lol:
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Exactly! The first three years of trading I was a fool making the dumbest trades and then I stopped being so naive and mellowed out but still made many many regrets...
 
There are pins I regret not buying when I had the chance, but not ones I've traded. When I went to the Walt Disney Family Museum last year, I debated between the official logo pin and the pin of the logo with Oswald. In my souvenir pin collection I tend towards pins with vintage, black-and-white Mickey, so I could have gone either way. I went with the official logo, but in retrospect, I wish I had gotten the Oswald one instead >_<
 
CoryTheRaven said:
There are pins I regret not buying when I had the chance, but not ones I've traded. When I went to the Walt Disney Family Museum last year, I debated between the official logo pin and the pin of the logo with Oswald. In my souvenir pin collection I tend towards pins with vintage, black-and-white Mickey, so I could have gone either way. I went with the official logo, but in retrospect, I wish I had gotten the Oswald one instead >_<
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How come you didn't get both?
 
kocho72 said:
man, my girlfriend first told me about scrappers before i had even went to the parks as a pin trader,I've never seen the set, and they don't have to be good pins, just your first ones that always matter! :)
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They weren't my first. I took up pin trading in DLP were there were no scrapper issues at the time so I knew nothing about them. Then I traded in London a few times too and I don't think I ended up with any fakes then either.. It wasn't until I got to WDW a year later I started making bad decisions!


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Disnerd1989 said:
They weren't my first. I took up pin trading in DLP were there were no scrapper issues at the time so I knew nothing about them. Then I traded in London a few times too and I don't think I ended up with any fakes then either.. It wasn't until I got to WDW a year later I started making bad decisions!


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Ahhhhhhhhh, America, lol but atleast better then never?
 
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