The more I learn about scrappers, the more I am baffled....

I have learned SO MUCH over the last month or so about the differences of the pins...I have read a TON here, and I have weeded out my collection from having scrappers. (As far as I know...) I have been feeling pretty ill the last 2 days and I just had a thought and acted on it since I had some time on my hands and was just laying around...I thought about how people actually GET the scrappers to distribute in the first place. Now, I am not the most internet savvy....but I found it VERY hard to find a place to obtain a massive amount of scrapper pins to resell on eBay or anywhere else to even make it worth a profit. Why do people even bother trying to sell on eBay if you can't even get them cheap enough in the first place? It just baffles me how this is such a big problem when I can't see how it benefits the people that are perpetuating the scrapper problem. Insight?

part of me is happy u found it hard to find the pins very cheep. and part of me thinks its bad to tell you how to go about doing it. Like my math teacher would say. I never show the wrong way to do sumthing. What if thats the only time u are looking.. But here is kind of how it works or how the last guys the FBI/ICE got did it. One of the men was a CM or xCM... He knew when pins would come out and how to get his hands on them. He would go to the parks and trade with cms to get new pins than turn around and send them to china to have fakes made. The FBI/ICE said that the team had done around 2mill $$ in sales in the past few years. so yes there is money to b made and bad ppl that dont care about our hobby will go throw the trouble to live off of sumthing we all do for fun. really makes me sad..

Oh. and i know u asked about scrappers but the real trouble is FAKE pins. Although i do not see a diffrence in any fake pin... scrapper or not. they are all not Real.

Oh, No! I am not asking HOW to do it! LOL...I am just saying that I can't believe that it's such a problem becuase it just doesn't seem easy to get them...you know?

lol.. i dont think u are going to do it.. i was just saying could b bad to give all the steps cuz im sure sharks cruz our waters for all the info they can get.. if they dont already know. and yes you are right.. im sure its not easy.. but if u have money and time you can do a lot of good or a lot of bad. Sad part is when it comes to money many ppl pick the bad road cuz it seems easy. oh and i guess to understand why its such a big problume. thi k about the fact that only one team did over 2mill $$$ is sales in around 4 years. Now think about how many other teams are out there. You will than come to the thought that is big trouble because of the large numbers that are being made and shipped here just to b sold on ebay or swap meets. Keep your fingers crossed that sumday we get a grade house and or that disney steps up the back marks like using a holagram logo or other things to make fakes harder to pass as real.

People from China send emails all the time selling pins to people that have been known buyers for a penny per pin. They turn around and sell them in lots for a huge profit. If you sell 100 pins for $50-60 and buy them for .01 each you are making a killing. Thats why they do it. As long as there is money to be made people will do it. It is a shame and wrong but Disney does not do anything to stop it. You just need to educate yourself on scrappers and fakes.

I'm guessing you didn't find:

http://www.pinsback.com/DisneyPins/

or

http://www.gifts-family.com/disneytradingpins.html

or http://www.flyingpins.com/20110104/hello-world/

Or the numerous contacts available through http://www.tradekey.com/ (search for Disney pins)

I don't know how active the contact info for some of those is; I'm guessing since dates are 2010 or 2011 addresses aren't valid anymore. When the factories first started selling, they would cull Pinpics for email addresses and spam them with their info. That mostly clued people in that the allegations of cheap, counterfeit pins were true. I think some places are more careful about who they send their info to now. But if someone made the right connections, I'm sure they can be found.