Help with Pricing a Gomes Prototype?
You can ask for a 40-50% premium for whatever the original is worth if it's an alternate metal color (especially since Gomes pins are especially coveted from the DA run). Add a 25-30% premium if it's the same metal color. You may not get it - as noted, there are few of us who collect DA AP's and protos but we are passionate about them - so if you find the right collector, they will pay a premium for a special piece. But if the original is in the $350 value range, then $450ish for the proto would not be unexpected as an end price and potentially a little higher.
Note: this is only for DA pins. Park APs/PPs are considerably lower value, only about 10-15% higher value than the original version.
Lol yeah, they're a particular favorite part of my collection.It sounds like you know your DA prototypes - should it have a special stamp on the back?
The actual production run of this set is unusual because not all pins in the set have the same color finish. This is documented in the PinPics listing http://pinpics.com/pinMT.php?pin=34700&keyw=gomes+nightmare . Most DA LE 100 sets used the same color finish for all pins in the set, mostly all gold, but sometimes all black or all silver.
I was the one who added all five of the 2-inch NBC pins to PinPics back in the Summer of 2006.
My memory of the info in the eBay listing is this. . .
The first time the actual production run was created, there was a communication error at the factory and they made the pins 2 inches in diameter.
And by this I mean they had created 100 sets of 2 inch pins, plus the 5 3-pin AP sets of the pins, all 2 inches in diameter.
(2) Disney decided to sell the" wrong size" pins to their cast members instead of destroying them as they had done in the past.
And then Disney remade the entire edition of 2.5 inch pins, which they then auctioned them off to the general public via Disney Auctions' eBay account.
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The 2-inch pins surfaced on eBay during the summer of 2006, two years after Disney had released the actual production run 2.5-inch pins.
The first week the entire set of actual production run was auctioned off in a single listing by one of the two sellers who I had purchased the majority of my DA pins from since late October of 2005. I won that auction.
The very next week the same seller listed the 5 3-pin AP sets, each set in an individual listing. I also won each of those auctions.
The next week the seller listed another production run set but listed the pins individually.
Auctioning the pins individually got her upwards of 50% more money then she had gotten for the complete set two weeks earlier.
Then for many more weeks in succession, she listed another production run set, continuing to list each of the pins individually.
The greater Southern California pin community was really buzzing about these pins back at the time they were being listed for NBC is, or at least was back then, really big in Southern California.
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I posted something similar to the above on Dizpins back during that same timeframe.
This would explain how I ended up with one that has no special stamp and no COA, although it does have the original DA card & foam sleeve. Assuming what I have is one of these 'error' pins, do you have any thoughts on what it's worth?
You can text me the picture @this_and_that and I will go ahead an insert it here
Thanks much. Just sent it.
Utterly gorgeous. But you know I share your love for the different color metal versions together!When placed near one another, I find 2-inch and 2.5-inch versions of the same pin to be spectacular:
I remember you showing me a few older Prototype DA pins during the BATB DSF event. I probably could have sat there all day listening to you. XDI value pins more on their current availability (for acquisition by another) than on what folks choose to pay for them on the secondary market.
From a trading perspective, per PinPics info:
a) no one is trading the proto
b) only one person is trading the actual production run pin, and those Want-ing it far exceed the edition size
Based on the above, I believe you have is a very-HTF pin.
I firmly believe if there is only one available, it’s “value” is whatever the person who is willing to part with it says it is.
Now, I stopped purchasing pins on eBay back when eBay started masking bidder IDs, which may have been around 10 years ago. And I have never sold anything whatsoever on eBay.
I mention this because my search skills are probably not very good. But I have just tried searching open and completed listings, and I did not find any evidence that anyone is currently selling one of these, nor that they have either attempted to sell or actually sold one recently.
The above reinforces my opinion that what you have a very-HTF pin.
From my point of view, the fact that there are likely 100 of these in existence doesn’t matter much if only 1 of them (yours) is currently available for someone to acquire.
I believe that the 2-inch proto is more valuable than the 2.5-inch actual production run at this time because no one is trading it on PinPics.
But exactly how much more valuable it is in monetary terms, I cannot tell you because perceived current monetary value is way down the list of things I consider when trading.
What Jabberwocky said regarding the demand for Proto‘s is absolutely true.
However, I believe that a person who may not consider a different color finish desirable may find a different size to be rather desirable.
When placed near one another, I find 2-inch and 2.5-inch versions of the same pin to be spectacular:
In the above photo, the 2.5-inch actual production run pin is the 2nd from the left, and the 2-inch AP pin in the same color finish is on the far left. The other two 2-inch pins on the right are just the silver and gold AP versions. It was easy for me to locate the pin book those pins were in and photograph it.
I am only including this picture in my reply to support my opinion that both sizes together are “spectacular”. With respect, these are some of my very favorite pins that I do not ever foresee wanting to part with.
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