Hiya from Nashville!
Great tip! Thank youWelcome! Thanks for the kind words about our forum. I think we are a great group of knowledgeable collectors who will try to do their best to inform each other. Authentication by photo is tricky. Some pins you have to have access to an authentic pin and view them side by side and feel them to catch the differences. Plus, there have been so many changes in how Disney makes their own pins that it can be confusing to figure out what is fake vs what is simply, old.
If you want to post photos of pins, a few tips. Make sure to include both front and backs, and remove the rubber or metal pin back. Don't put too many pins in one photo, 1-4 is probably best. Sharp photos are best, and its easier to get those sometimes by not putting your phone or camera too close to the pin, but taking the photo from a farther distance and then cropping the photo to see things at a closer range.
I’m having a hard time finding photos with the backs. Is there a place besides pin pics that you recommend?Welcome to the forum. You can try to use Google photo search to help identify the pin, then search some of the databases for the pin. Some have pictures of both the front and back of the pins.
Where do I post them? There are so many forums on here and I want to make sure I go to the right place.Welcome! Thanks for the kind words about our forum. I think we are a great group of knowledgeable collectors who will try to do their best to inform each other. Authentication by photo is tricky. Some pins you have to have access to an authentic pin and view them side by side and feel them to catch the differences. Plus, there have been so many changes in how Disney makes their own pins that it can be confusing to figure out what is fake vs what is simply, old.
If you want to post photos of pins, a few tips. Make sure to include both front and backs, and remove the rubber or metal pin back. Don't put too many pins in one photo, 1-4 is probably best. Sharp photos are best, and its easier to get those sometimes by not putting your phone or camera too close to the pin, but taking the photo from a farther distance and then cropping the photo to see things at a closer range.
Pin comparison or Help Me identify this pinWhere do I post them? There are so many forums on here and I want to make sure I go to the right place.
Hi! I'm in Orlando now, but I'm from Nashville originally so great to meet a fellow Tenesseean! The only city with more bachelorettes than here. I started out just a couple months ago and this place was great in helping me learn which pins were real and which ones were fake. I'm still an amateur but I've learned a lot from being on here. (Just scroll down my thread on the pin comparison page and you'll see what I mean)
Edit: Meant to add...My daughter is on her high school dance team and this year at nationals (in Orlando lol) the competition theme was to show where you are from. They did a bachelorette theme. They all wore shorts, a vest and cowboy boots and one girl wore the exact same thing but in white. The song was Shania Twain ’I feel like a woman’. They won second place in the Nation!
Thank you for your help! It’s a lot of learning and some disappointment knowing I spent so much money to trade for fakes. I would have never thought this would happen but I guess with all things, some people like to rip others off.
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Congratulations to her and the team. I am sure we have all fallen for the scrappers when we started out. I will sometimes still accept a known scrapper from a child that wants to trade. With adults, if I have time, I'll explain why their pin is not authentic and what to look for in the future. If they are nice and understanding I'll sometimes just give them the pin they wanted.My daughter is on her high school dance team and this year at nationals (in Orlando lol) the competition theme was to show where you are from. They did a bachelorette theme. They all wore shorts, a vest and cowboy boots and one girl wore the exact same thing but in white. The song was Shania Twain ’I feel like a woman’. They won second place in the Nation!
Thank you for your help! It’s a lot of learning and some disappointment knowing I spent so much money to trade for fakes. I would have never thought this would happen but I guess with all things, some people like to rip others off.
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My daughter is on her high school dance team and this year at nationals (in Orlando lol) the competition theme was to show where you are from. They did a bachelorette theme. They all wore shorts, a vest and cowboy boots and one girl wore the exact same thing but in white. The song was Shania Twain ’I feel like a woman’. They won second place in the Nation!
Thank you for your help! It’s a lot of learning and some disappointment knowing I spent so much money to trade for fakes. I would have never thought this would happen but I guess with all things, some people like to rip others off.
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I agree. I had fun with it even though my daughter wanted to hurry up and get back in line for another ride. lol.Sounds very Nashville lol. One time at work I said "Howdy" while wearing my Cowboy-ish style sun hat and they immediately asked if I was from Nashville. To echo @TheMickeyMouseRules, a lot of people don't know they're trading fakes. I asked for a big pack of scrappers off the internet for my birthday cause I wanted to pin trade, and had already deposited most of them before I found this place. I had no idea those were all fakes while trading them. I see plenty of guests walking around trading scrappers for scrappers none the wiser. They buy packs online and trade for scrappers they love. And as long as they're happy I'm happy!
There are also folks who do it on purpose. I've even had cast members say they do it or recommend buying them online cause they're cheaper. Sucks but it should be Disney's responsibility to make sure the pins they accept are genuine. I've also traded for plenty of scrappers though because they're cute. (that Koda K is one of those in my collection)
At the end of the day, pin trading is about what makes you happy. If a fake makes you as happy as an authentic pin does, then it's as legit as any authentic Disney pin!
Also adding a congratulations to your daughter's dance team!Edit: Meant to add...
Congrats to your daughter's dance team! That is amazing!
I think there are many traders that don't know they are trading fakes. They visit once and buy a pin lot from an auction site, they have fun trading during their only visit to WDW or DLR and never give it a second thought after they leave. But there are definitely those who knowingly and purposely continue to trade fakes in the US parks.
My rule: always trade real pins to the cast lanyards and boards. To achieve this, my traders are sale or clearance pins, so I have inexpensive, but real traders. I still to this day end up with fakes from the low quality pins on US Disney Park boards. The fakes are unfortunately a part of the hobby.
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