What do YOU consider a good want/trade ratio?

Inquiring minds want to know. Do you use a formula? Do you do a percentage of trades to wants? Do you have a number difference?

Also, do you feel that the trade/want numbers are skewed for older pins giving the age of PinPics and how many people used it in the past and probably don't anymore.

personally I find people have stopped using wants vs trades for trading and going off pure popularity, that seems to have started with PODM's which can be used for what older collectors couldnt trade for except for something as equally HTF but PODMs seem to have knocked it all about for now anyway. but thats just my opinion.

for me though a good wants vs trades is a pin with about 10-20 trading to about 120 wanting.. I still try and trade for pins equal to wants vs trades but its gotten alot harder nowadays.

For example, I have gotten Pin 91493: DLP - Cast Member 20th Anniversary Pin Trading Logo - Phantom Manor, trading 11, wanting 136 LE2012.

I have been told by a few people that its not worth a decent beloved tales pin and its only worth the likes of Mary Poppins BT which has a trading 34 to wanting 64...and been told that LE size comes into it which reduces its tradability..but yet it being a Paris and Cast Member pin and a 125 number difference means nada.. as like I said people go off whats popular and Beloved Tales have gotten quite popular so it return must have hot pins to trade for other hot pins. So it's just a cycle and hopefully trading will gradually get back to normal once PODM's have stopped.

Just my little thoughts lol

I think it depends on the pins. I find it a lot harder to trade for Rapunzel pins than any of the other princesses. I think it all comes down to popularity of the character/pin series.

Less than 10 trading - More than 100 wanting is a good sign

wow no wonder i insult people with my offers all the time LOL..i am happy with a 2 to 1 ratio..but if i want/love a pin i dont care if its upside down. i have said it a million times that people trade so differently, i really saw that at the circus. some folks told me they dont look at LE AT ALL--nope not at all. some people list the trade ratio on the pin card and totally trade by that. Some folks traded by appr price--yup price (which is hard if the pins are not from the same year) Then some trade on sentiment or love of a character or if its the onky pin in a set they need. who know....i just keep offering and buy and trading like the sick addict i am.

Great thread!

I personally complicate things and use pinpics along with value of recently sold items and the LE sizes. Its not an exact science but it works for us. Of course there are flaws with any of those systems.. Trades/Wants are hard because..the number of wants could be limited because not many people "want" or "collect" the character that is on the pin.

For example....an OE Rapunzel pin.. would have over 100+ wants! does that make it better than an LE 100 snow white pin that has 8 trading / 30 wanting? not necessarily.. <-- this is an extreme example of course..

Then Ebay, we all know how much Ebay can screw up trades! hahaaha

LE sizes would probably be the best way to trade..but some LE 1000's are harder than LE 500's . So its really up to the 2 people involved in the trade and finding some middle ground to work on.

Everyone trades differently, and value their pins differently thats the beauty of this hobby!

Anything with less than 10 trading is probably a good pin. If it has more than 20+ wanting it's good, 10/50+ is great. less than 10 trading and over 100 wanting is a grail. The newere stuff is hard to tell though. You might have 40 trading and 80 wanting but it's not that great. It just hasn't settled into the collections yet but is on its way to good status. You have to see in the long run how a pins T/W goes. If it quickly rises to 200+ wants it's gonna be a great pin. If it has 50/50 numbers it may just be ok and not super desirable long run because not everyone is gonna keep it and not everyone is gonna be able to trade theirs away when the collections are saturated with what they need.

I like the ratio to be better than 1 to 4. so 1/4, 2/8, 20/80....

but being a much less picky person than some, and having several very easy to find or even upside down pins on my wants list. Its kind of across the board.

super high t/w ratio in my book is another single digit to triple. so 9/100 or better... SCAREY COOL to me.