Mystery Pins Question

I really never got into mystery pins until now when I decided that I like like the Best Friends set! I bought a pack online and really didn't get the ones I wanted so I decided to buy another from the same seller I opened the pouch up and I got the same 5 pins I received in the last pouch? Is this uh... common? or a very weird coincidence maybe ?

The mystery bags are sometimes in the same groupings, so yes you can be unlucky, buy 3 bags that have the same assortment. The Disney couples i bought had the same assortment of pins in each bag, so it was broken up into 3 different groups w/Rapunzel/Flynn being the 16th random pin that substituted for Duchess/O'malley group. the mystery boxes can sometimes be different pairings, with usually 1-2 pins per box, it's hard to know till we scramble for them. The Disney reveal/conceal couples in the shape of a ring, were all the same conceals when shipped per brick, so when we bought multiples they were all the same, but each store would have a different conceal, hence they got mixed up as they restocked the mystery boxes. Last year the mystery reveal/conceal carousel princesses were the same conceal for each reveal, so some bought certain ones to get more of the conceal (merida). Hope this helps.

What did you get, what are you looking for?

njpaulc said:

What did you get, what are you looking for?

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I got the following: Aladdin and Genie, Mickey and Pluto, Huey Dewey and Lewie, Pinocchio and Jiminy, The 3 kids from Nightmare before Christmas
Mainly looking for the Lilo/Stich and Mulan/Mushu pins

Sent you a PM yesterday, let me know if we can work something out.

Related to this subject, I bought a mystery box that was from an old set off eBay once, and now I realize that having pins that are all of the same shape would be better than ones with different shapes to them - I am fairly certain that the seller I bought from was feeling the edges of the packages to get a general idea of which characters were in the box, and kept the ones that were worth more to sell separately, then sold the unwanted characters as "unopened mystery" placed back in the boxes, even though you could tell by feeling who they actually were.

Are the boxes supposed to be sealed in any kind of plastic wrap to help with tampering? Because the box I got had clearly been opened and re-closed, but it was just cardboard with no wrapping and it made me wonder if there was supposed to be something else.

Ninpin said:

Are the boxes supposed to be sealed in any kind of plastic wrap to help with tampering? Because the box I got had clearly been opened and re-closed, but it was just cardboard with no wrapping and it made me wonder if there was supposed to be something else.

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I've never seen them with shrink wrap. Just the boxes with blind bags inside or plastic bags on their own.

The boxes should come with clear round stickers holding the top and bottom of the box closed. You can usually tell if they have been resealed.

pilcrow said:

The boxes should come with clear round stickers holding the top and bottom of the box closed. You can usually tell if they have been resealed.

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I don't think I've ever see these stickers on boxes from DLR, but I don't buy too many of the mystery pins.

pilcrow said:

The boxes should come with clear round stickers holding the top and bottom of the box closed. You can usually tell if they have been resealed.

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Good to know, and pretty much validates what I thought happened.