Question about pricing your pins....

[lambie*loves*dland]

Hi everyone! I hope I'm posting in the right place. I have a question...

How do I find out what a pin is worth? I have some that I am interested in selling, but I would like to know their worth. I checked ebay for a couple (cuz I could only find that many of mine on there), and the prices seem a little crazy, but ebay always is. So I don't want to go off of that alone.


Any help on how I can find out their worth is greatly appreciated! Thank you! =)

 

[PixarPerils]

You are right, just because a pin is listed on eb*y as a "buy it now" at a certain price, does not mean it is necessarily worth that much. The best thing to do is to find out what people are actually paying for the pin (completed auctions).


There are many things that combine to determine value of a pin, and some of it is subjective.

~Edition size
~PinPics Trades/Wants ratio
~Source location
~Release date
~Number currently available for sale on pin forums, eb*y, etc.


But the trickiest thing about selling a pin is that everyone collects different characters, and therefore those that collect that character will value the pin higher than those who don't. For example, I would not even pay a dollar for an LE100 Jessica pin for my collection, because she doesn't appeal to me at all. But I would pay $50 for an Open Edition Wheezy character pin if it was ever made, because that is my favorite character (see my avatar)! So a lot of it depends on your viewing audience as well.

Hope that helps get you started. Another thing that might help is to lurk on the DPF sale board a bit. There may not be the exact same pins, but you can at least get an idea, based on edition size, T/W, source, etc.

Of course, if you list pins on the DPF sale board, you have to put a price. But if you'd like, you could put a note at the top, saying that if any of the prices look way off, people may PM you to discuss them. I've seen quite a few people do this.

 

[lambie*loves*dland]

And It's the opposite for me, If I see a Jessica LE100 I'm all over it! She's my favorite and my most collected. So thank you for saving them all for me! lol.

Wheezy is a cutie. Hopefully one day they will make that pin of him, and you'll get it

Thank you for all the help, I appreciate all the advice! I bought a disneyana pin trading book yesterday at DL. Hoping it would help me find my pins. This book is hard for me to understand! So I will be looking it over for the next few days.


It did however make me add some pins to my want list! They are very much wanted now! =)