Is it true Jessica is hot in the Pin world??
Agreed!:lol: To me, Jessica is hot in all Worlds.
In my experience, I'd definitely agree that Jessica is popular and trades quite well. But I've also found Jessica to really be a dual-edged sword and something of a pain when it comes to trading.
Most of the really sought-after pins are really quite valuable, which is great if you own them (and even better for you if you got them at cost). But from a trading perspective? Not so great. You have to remember that it takes two to make a pin trade and both pin traders have to agree on the pin values (which are subjective and can fluctuate daily if not hourly) and then agree on the pins to be exchanged. The problem that emerges is that many people tend to overvalue their pins and undervalue other traders' pins (the 'my pins are gold/platinum and everyone else's pins are tin' syndrome), which can make agreeing to a trade difficult-to-impossible at times.
And if you don't have any Jessicas to trade, first you'd need to go into the market to acquire them (ugh) ... then try to trade/retrade them for what you really wanted in the first place (double ugh). One of the problems with pin trading is that there is no guarantee that *any* pin, no matter how popular or desirable, will trade for *any* pin. Potentially, because pin trading is so subjective, any character can trade for any character *if* you find the right person with whom to make the trade. If you already have Jessicas in your trade book, I never would tell you not to trade them if that is what you choose. If you don't, I wouldn't necessarily go out of your way to acquire her as a trader. I think that's time and effort that could be better spent focused on pins that will go straight to your collection instead of pins that may or may not be able to be traded for your collection.
A dual edged blade that cuts the owner of the rarer pins more,as you can see I have a few of the "Grail" Jessicas,and I often get trade requests for open edition(and not retired or rare ones either,Hidden Mickeys,and even the latest releases from DSF :/ I even get people trying to shark them away from me by saying they'd only trade one Le1000 Halloween pin worth about $10 for multiple Grail status JessicasWhich is why they are out of my books altogether now >_<
I've even had someone attempt to trade me a complete set of some random 2010 Hidden Mickey series for my A/P Gomes Sprite *angry face* And the person wasn't a noob either,they had books of pins ranging from moderate to good,but they pull out some damned HM and try to trick me with a You get THIS many pins for that 1 lonesome little pin garbage
/Rant
Another popular trader besides stitch is Nightmare.We get alot of trades for our nightmare and stitch when we go to the parks.
Ditto when I get the super crap offers,I reply to offers when it's not pure garbage to say if I'm interested or not.That kind of crap makes me really mad
I get trade requests like that everyday and I just want to slap the person, and ask them "what is wrong with you?" lol. Instead I just ignore their requests and delete the e-mail XD
Mmmmm, yes and no. Everyone wants the hot Jessica pins, sure...but no one is really willing to trade what they're worth. I've had mixed luck with her, despite the fact that Jess and Tink are the main ones I collect.
Hands down, my best trader is Stitch.
Another popular trader besides stitch is Nightmare.We get alot of trades for our nightmare and stitch when we go to the parks.
+1...That would be an awesome and totally hot set of pins!I'd *love* to have a Leg Avenue-style Jessica-as-Princesses series, like they did with Jessica-as-Minnie
Mmmmm, yes and no. Everyone wants the hot Jessica pins, sure...but no one is really willing to trade what they're worth. I've had mixed luck with her, despite the fact that Jess and Tink are the main ones I collect.
Hands down, my best trader is Stitch.
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