Trading on PinPics and other?

[GeraldineWH]

Working 2 jobs and babysitting grandkids on weekends has kept me away from being as active as before, but I do favor pinpics as a database for my pin inventory, it's just easier for me to add/remove and find pins. I also appreciate the many ways you can compare between 2 traders' collections, not just what ISO's you have of theirs to trade. You can see which pins you both own and which pins you own that the other trader wants. You can see which traders are looking for a pin and send multiple offers to multiple traders.

I also appreciate Pin and Pop for the Trade arcades, as that's where I'm pretty much doing all my trades now, so although it takes a bit of effort, I do maintain both accounts for the different benefits both provide.

Thanks for the info. Very helpful!

 

[GeraldineWH]

I also maintain both Pin & Pop and PinPics, and actively trade on both. I'm so sorry you had such a negative experience with that other trader on PinPics. As others have said, checking feedback scores before making offers greatly increases your chances of making a successful trade. I have had many wonderful trades on PinPics, and am expecting a multi pin trade to arrive on Monday!

Thank you for sharing your experience. I think I'm convinced to put a little more time into listing traders and ISOs in PinPics and see how it goes.

 

[fuzzybunny]

Thanks for sharing. When people want to trade on Facebook can you send them a link to your traders on pinpics? I will check out your pinpics after I get more of my traders listed. Are you also fuzzybunny on PinPics?

if others from face book want to see my traders they have to sign up, and yes I am fuzzybunny on pinpics as well

 

[GeraldineWH]

I trade on both. PinandPop has really been beneficial for bulk trading and more equal trade offers for me. PinPics (since the revamp) has had mixed reviews. I've done some really good trades, had some interesting interactions, and 1 really bad interaction in which I agreed to a trade that they specifically reached out to me for. When we were going to ask for shipping info, the trader kept changing their trade proposal because they "accidentally traded away the original pins at Disneyland because they're regulars". I pretty much felt like I was being harassed at that point and told them to never reach out again. I haven't had any bad reactions since then but I've also had the account active in spirts due to updating my account and obligations that make trading harder this year. I hope you have much better interactions in the future on PinPics though. I've been a member of PinPics long enough even before the update to know that there's always going to be really great traders and then those who feel obligated to be JERKS. Keep trying and just remember to have fun - you can't please everyone.

Thanks for sharing. Sounds like it is worth me putting a bit more time and effort into PinPics and see how it goes for me.

 

[Ajk]

Back in the day I had a lot of positive experience on PinPics but have not used them much at all in the past couple of years and have been using Pin and Pop instead. I never had a negative experience like you describe and that person just sounds like a jerk that was trying to over-value their pins (not just on pinpics but whatnot). I can't imagine why a "for sale" price would be an appropriate value rather than a sold price, unless possibly if it was an extremely rare pin that never sells and even rarely comes up for sale.

Based on other people's experience, it sounds like it might be time for me to update my PP profile and get active there again. In my spare time. 🙂

 

[dznycrzyfmly]

Thanks for sharing. Sounds like it is worth me putting a bit more time and effort into PinPics and see how it goes for me.

Good luck to ya! Hope you have many enjoyable trading opportunities this year.

 

[GeraldineWH]

Thought I would circle back and give an update. Since I started this thread I've had two successful PinPics trades, and a third is an International trade that will take a bit of time to arrive in the mail. .2 of the 3 trades were initiated by me, and 1 was initiated by the other trader. 8 traders did not respond - so I had 2 successful trades out of 10 requests I initiated. Of these 3 trades, 2 of the trades were 1 loungefly pin for 1 loungefly pin, so it helped each of us get closer to completing sets and had no valuation issues. The international trade I traded two Disney mystery box pins (Pluto's Christmas Tree) for two Japan pins. Also of note is that 2 of the 3 traders are premium members. 2 other traders reached out to me but trades were not made. Pros of this trading this way is the personal interaction with the other traders, and pins arrive quickly. Cons of this trading this way is that it takes a good amount of time/effort to propose trades many of which you will never receive a response to, and the shipping costs. Another con is that when I was looking for trades, the same traders consistently came up for me so the pool of potential traders didn't seem very large, or not as large as I expected. The advice give on this thread to look for feedback/trade activity was great advice as it lets you know who is actively trading and more likely to respond so I've focused on sending requests only to those with recent activity. I will update my pin dashboard so that I can continue to trade but I'm sure that there will only be occasional times that I can put in the effort required to seek out these trades.

 

[Ajk]

Thanks for the great insight.

 

[DisneyOlivia]

Back in the day I had a lot of positive experience on PinPics but have not used them much at all in the past couple of years and have been using Pin and Pop instead. I never had a negative experience like you describe and that person just sounds like a jerk that was trying to over-value their pins (not just on pinpics but whatnot). I can't imagine why a "for sale" price would be an appropriate value rather than a sold price, unless possibly if it was an extremely rare pin that never sells and even rarely comes up for sale.

Based on other people's experience, it sounds like it might be time for me to update my PP profile and get active there again. In my spare time. 🙂

I’m thinking the same thing! I’ve also had a few people send trade offers on pinpics recently after nothing for YEARS, so I guess time to update properly 🤩