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Hi KTO7,
Thank you for trying to help me lose the fear of trading again at the parks.
Here is the scenario that I face when trading at WDW. I will go up to a CM and ask to see their pin. Then I will choose a pin and trade quickly, because there are people behind me, or the CM has other work to do. I then put my pin away until I get back to the hotel where I now have the time to study them. It is here where I sometimes need to use a magnifying glass to be able to tell which ones are fakes. By now, I have traded away my good trading pin and am stuck with the scrapper.
Don't get me wrong, if I am aware of the coloring some pins should be exactly, I will not ask for that pin. Or if I see that the quality is obviously bad, I run as fast as I can, but it is the pins that are too close to call that end up getting me.
As for LE counterfeit pins, even though Laura says she is no fool and knows what scrappers and counterfeits look like, I think no one can be 100% sure of the authenticity of a pin unless they have the original next to them. When I traded at the Dolphin Disney Outlet, we used to examine certain pins as a group trying to decide if it was a fake or not. And I am talking about experienced traders and sellers alike. I have been trading for 6 years and have been shocked by how good some of the counterfeit pins look. Example: Stitch Costumed Series where he is a Dalmatian. It is an LE 100 and has sold on ebay over 50 times by now as a counterfeit. I have seen them both side by side and it is only then that you can spot the difference. Not all fakes have one thing that is a tell tale sign. So I think we need to be more sympathetic to those that get scammed. It is not as easy as it may appear to differentiate fakes and legits.
Laura, it is true that a seller can have 100% feedback and not be trusted. I mentioned this in one of the earlier posts on this thread. And it is also true that there are some great legit sellers out there too. Knowledge is everything, so the more you know, the better it will be for you sor sure.
Thank you for trying to help me lose the fear of trading again at the parks.
Here is the scenario that I face when trading at WDW. I will go up to a CM and ask to see their pin. Then I will choose a pin and trade quickly, because there are people behind me, or the CM has other work to do. I then put my pin away until I get back to the hotel where I now have the time to study them. It is here where I sometimes need to use a magnifying glass to be able to tell which ones are fakes. By now, I have traded away my good trading pin and am stuck with the scrapper.
Don't get me wrong, if I am aware of the coloring some pins should be exactly, I will not ask for that pin. Or if I see that the quality is obviously bad, I run as fast as I can, but it is the pins that are too close to call that end up getting me.
As for LE counterfeit pins, even though Laura says she is no fool and knows what scrappers and counterfeits look like, I think no one can be 100% sure of the authenticity of a pin unless they have the original next to them. When I traded at the Dolphin Disney Outlet, we used to examine certain pins as a group trying to decide if it was a fake or not. And I am talking about experienced traders and sellers alike. I have been trading for 6 years and have been shocked by how good some of the counterfeit pins look. Example: Stitch Costumed Series where he is a Dalmatian. It is an LE 100 and has sold on ebay over 50 times by now as a counterfeit. I have seen them both side by side and it is only then that you can spot the difference. Not all fakes have one thing that is a tell tale sign. So I think we need to be more sympathetic to those that get scammed. It is not as easy as it may appear to differentiate fakes and legits.
Laura, it is true that a seller can have 100% feedback and not be trusted. I mentioned this in one of the earlier posts on this thread. And it is also true that there are some great legit sellers out there too. Knowledge is everything, so the more you know, the better it will be for you sor sure.
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