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Tangled marquee value Increases.

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Tangled marquee value Increases.
I can't believe it sold either. I've been trying to collect Tangled pins since before the movie came out, but my progress has been very slowly and at times, non-existant. I still need the majority of them :(
 
Doesn't it say on Pinpics.com that this pin is being directly ordered from China and that some may not be authentic? I sure hope you ever bought it for $400 got the real thing.
 
Oooh, I missed what you said. What I like to do though for pins that sold for big bucks is wait for feedback to be posted to find out who bought it, then check to see if they're a DPF member.
 
It does appear though that this same seller is also the one who way overpaid for all of those Alice pins that sold this last weekend. Seems as if they have money to burn, dropped a few thousand dollars on pins in just a few days.
 
#1mickeyfreak said:
Doesn't it say on Pinpics.com that this pin is being directly ordered from China and that some may not be authentic? I sure hope you ever bought it for $400 got the real thing.
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I believe all the pins on pinpics say that; it's a warning to be cautious with all pins, not specifically about that one in particular,
 
And this, my fellow traders, is the reason I divorced Tangled. To many people out there who are insane enough to pay that amount for a pin. I wonder if its the same person who paid 400 for the PODM?

Realisticaly though, with everyone hording away their marquee's, are you truely that surprised by this price? If the 5 people trading this pin, and those just holding onto them for some reason other than collecting.... put them up on ebay all at once, it would become a fight for the fastest sale/lowest price. Supply and demand.


Soooooo glad I divorced my Tangled obsession. Hunchback is showing me the love I need from my pin collection without breaking my bank.
 
Vixy said:
I believe all the pins on pinpics say that; it's a warning to be cautious with all pins, not specifically about that one in particular,
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nope, it only says that on pins which pinpics members have added info regarding possible scrappers. A pin that has had no scrap alerts wont have that warning in the decrip.
 
I still can't believe how much money people are willing to drop on these pins. It seems like Tangled and Brave are the big pins to get right now. It really sucks living in Ohio and have no way to nab these. I won't be back to WDW until June 2013 so it looks like I'm Ebaying it then. But I always hit the flea markets around the area so if I see a Tangled Marquee for sale and at a good price I may nab it and trade cause I'm going for different sets right now.
 
Whoever paid that has more money than sense. All they are doing is driving up the prices and winding up hurting themselves. Guess that is one pin I'll never have.
 
swim2sea said:
Whoever paid that has more money than sense. All they are doing is driving up the prices and winding up hurting themselves. Guess that is one pin I'll never have.
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And it's an LE 300 with scrapper warning. I was at the park and a "shark" wanted the UP or Walle marquee for it ONLY! Yea right.

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See and this is why I hate tangled lol! If you don't have the tangled pin that everyone wants right now you are stuffed for trading. It's pure greed what people charge for them and though I hope they did not get a scrapper they are clearly shooting themselves in the foot by driving the price up like that!

Really fed up of tangled right now it's making pin trading not fun.
 
I can't believe it went for that much, that's insane! For me it was Tangled that even got me into collecting and trading - I mean I spent 10 days in WDW in December of 2010 and managed to see Tangled twice in Downtown Disney :lol: and then proceeded to go back to our hotel room and order every Tangled pin from DS.com so that they were waiting for me when I got home.

The most I've ever spent on a Tangled pin was $100, and I hope to never have to do that again. I do wonder where all the opening day pins went though...I mean LE 1000 and only a few people trading? Geez!
 
Im glad I have it but thats crazy!! I have a feeling my Tangled collection will only be new releases as I am far from rich. :(
 
MASTER said:
And it's an LE 300 with scrapper warning. I was at the park and a "shark" wanted the UP or Walle marquee for it ONLY! Yea right.
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That sounds like a fair trade to me based on how many people want the Tangled Marquee and how few are trading. Whether you like it or not, Up, Tangled and Wall-E are the upper echelon of the Marquee pins. So calling the trader a shark seems a little uncalled for.
 
I also think the scrapper warning is bogus. If it were real, don't you think we'd be seeing a lot more pins out there?
 
Official scrapper warnings for LE pins, especially, are only put on Pinpics when they have a picture coming from a Chinese factory offering it for sale. Disney, apparently, gets testy with them otherwise. But if there is a moderator scrapper warning, then rest assured that there is a picture somewhere from a Chinese factory. In this case there was a thread on Pinpics where a Pinpics regular, posted images they had received via email from a Chinese email.

http://www.pintalk.com/showthread.php?386-Scary-new-scrapper-images-from-China
 
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That thread was from 2010. It's now 2012 and there has been no influx of any of those pins flooding the markets. The poster themselves seem to question if these pins were being scrapped. After two years with no evidence, I still call bogus on the scrapper alert. It's common sense folks. If these pins had been scrapped, there would be a glut of them out there. You'd be seeing Tangled Marquee auctions consistently. It's not happening, therefore, there are most likely no scrappers out there.
 
I've always wondered if there were actually scrappers of this pin as well. The trade/want ratios are not suspect...and one would assume that these pins would come up for sale way more often than they do if there were scrappers.

BUT...other pins that have known scrapper warnings also have non-suspect trade ratios...

Jessica as Alice (57574)- 8 trading 277 wanting

Princess Icon Cinderella (41616)- 1 trading 87 wanting

Tinker Bell Baseball (42141)- 7 trading 88 wanting


So it is really hard to tell. Maybe someone that purchased this pin directly from DSF could post pics for reference. Also...did this pin come on a special backer card or anything?
 
lunarbasket said:
I do wonder where all the opening day pins went though...I mean LE 1000 and only a few people trading? Geez!
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I think that this pin did not stay within the pin trading community. Meaning I think that a lot of people who were at WDW at the time bought this pin simply because it was available and pretty. I bet there a lot of little girls who have lanyards with four or five rack pins and this pin on it in the back of their closets.
 
I have a theory, and it could be wrong. Perhaps the reason no LE1000's are available is because there are just that many Tangled collectors out there. It would aslso explain the idea of the scrapper marquees not hitting the market. Trickle theory, once in a while, a scrap dealer pops a marquee out because well.. they need the cash, or its been long enough it wont show up on the recently sold list via ebay anymore.
 
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