Needing advice on trading sets

So to make a really long story short, I have a complete WiR mystery set to trade, and I was thinking about putting it up for auction - but I am unsure. I kind of have high expectations for what I want to trade it for and I am afraid that other people will value it less than I do, and I don't want to be stuck trading it away for less than what I think it is worth.

Just to be clear, this is what I have:


Am I over-valuing it? I think considering the want/trades ratios on pinpics I should expect some good trades, right?

I was thinking about putting it up for auction for 2 weeks? Is that too long or should it be longer? I am jsut so unceratin about it; nervous I am going to wind up in a bad trade. Its just that since there is no listing for the entire set I would have to send out requests for each pin, which isn't what I am looking for.
Any advice?

I never put things up for more then a week. It is too long for people to tie up pins in the hope they might win.

You might want to place a trading post first and try and trade them as a set and see what offers you get. If you put them up for auction you are at the mercy of getting whatever somebody wants to bid and you might not get anything you really want for them.

docfish2u said:

I never put things up for more then a week. It is too long for people to tie up pins in the hope they might win.

You might want to place a trading post first and try and trade them as a set and see what offers you get. If you put them up for auction you are at the mercy of getting whatever somebody wants to bid and you might not get anything you really want for them.

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If you put in the trading post first, you're not bound by the rules to trade it if you don't like what's being offered.

Are you worried about overvaluing it or undervaluing it? Put it up for a trade and say what you think it's worth. If nobody wants it you'll find out, and I don't think you'll lose anything for thinking it's worth more than it's current value. The advantage of auction is you might get more than it's worth, the big disadvantage is it might not be what you want to get for it. I'd trade it and only take what I want, and not settle for less..

Thanks for the feedback guys. I think I should use the trading thread more often. I'm just so used to pinpics, I should really start utilizing the trading threads more.

Icarusinflames said:

Thanks for the feedback guys. I think I should use the trading thread more often. I'm just so used to pinpics, I should really start utilizing the trading threads more.

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Funny you say that....there are a few of for who PinPics trading is our comfort zone. This is a truly awesome group of people on DPF, so I think you'll find trading here a lot of fun. But, timing is everything. It's spring break time right now, so not everyone may be checking in regularly. Small steps, put a trade post out & go from there. Good luck getting the pins you are looking for!!

Definitely list as a trade first, because they are not LE pins or even LR they may not fetch the kind of offers you might be hoping for. I'm not sure if it was you or someone else with very similar pins, but they were looking for PATF pins, I don't think they were able to get anything they were hoping for

Its always better to be safe than sorry, a trade thread will show what the interest is right away. I have put up feeler trades and been so swarmed with interest that my mailbox was full in a few hours, other times it's all crickets. Auctions are a risky so if you aren't sure it's for something highly sought after I would say don't do it.

Good luck either way!