How Do YOU Trade?
For 80% of my pins, I just trade by original price/edition size. Most of my pins are mystery pins, so I don't want to trade the ones that come 5 in a $28 pack, for the ones that come 2 in a $20 box. The small variations in T/W ratios or Ebay prices aren't worth getting worked up about. 10% are older pins, so I like to trade them for other older pins. 10% are pins that have value, so I use Ebay sale prices for those.
Most of my concerns, which have limited my online trading, is separating real pins from unauthorized/fake pins.
It's good to go in with an understanding of collectibles (what's worth a lot today is worth nothing tomorrow) so that you're just going for and doing what makes you happy and not because you think it's an 'investment'. Because it's not!I like TheMickeyMouseRules post above! Personally, when trading, (for myself) I do it completely by the design on the front of the pin. After trading online with different people, I do reserve my LE pins for trading for LE pins I want, but personally, I don't care. I just do that because everyone else cares and I have LE pins I'd like to trade for! -grin- How much I want the pin has loads to do with the ultimate trade. Also, how much the other person wants a pin has loads to do with it! I love to make people happy, and I will trade a "better" pin or multiples if someone else is really thrilled at the prospect. I also like to give extras in trades when you've gotten to interact with the other trader and it is a fun time. Price goes the same way as LE pins for me. I don't care, in the long run, if I am trading for a pin I like better. However, I will hold onto higher orig. price pins, simply because others care and I have other pins I hope to trade for! After doing this a bunch, I think it tends to have a high variable, since each person has their own trading criteria. I find most people to place more value on their pins and rundown yours when it comes to it, but I've had enough trades where we were both happy without having to really count pennies, that I find it worth the others. I think your happiness points with a trade are really the true value. Honestly . . . years from now, none of these pins will be worth anything anyway, so the fun and enjoyment you have with them now is what counts. We are in the middle of clearing out a houseful of collectibles and antiques that ten years ago, we could have sold off at enough profit to pay Dad's medical bills. Now we are mainly having to donate it. The world has seen the heyday of collectibles as an investment. So, I think in the pin hobby, how you are enjoying it now is what counts. So . . . I simply trade for pins I like. That means, if it were just me, someone would get a way better pin one time, and I might get a way better pin another time, but everyone would have the pin(s) that they wanted and made them happy at that time.
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