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What's the most you've spent (or would spend) on a pin?

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Im curious too! For me, I've been looking into buying some box/frame sets as of late. It always helps to see on pinpics how much they originally costed. Then if I end up paying less I feel great and if I end up paying like under $50 more I'm okay with that too. Figure I would've paid the same if I had had access at the time. For an individual pin I haven't spent more than $35, yet.
 
Wow, no I don't feel so bad about having spent $75 as a max though seems a few people have similar limits. At the moment my max is at $0 just going trade for the pins i want for a while then slowly get a max of up to $35 I think seems sensible
 
Xanaduhaz said:
Wow, no I don't feel so bad about having spent $75 as a max though seems a few people have similar limits. At the moment my max is at $0 just going trade for the pins i want for a while then slowly get a max of up to $35 I think seems sensible
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:lol: We have pretty much the exact same limit at the moment. I believe the most I have ever spent on a single pin was $60 (and this was on two separate occasions,) but with the upcoming semester my finances have gotten very tight. (I have to see if I can snag some secondhand books off of my friends, or I won't be trading/purchasing for a veerrrrry long time.)
 
Pleasehelp me out - what is the R/C Rapunzel?

Andthe most I've spent is $25. I saw a pinon ebay I'd never seen before (hadn't been that experienced at searchingpinpics!) and decided what I wanted to spend but did no research…another one recently sold for about $8. So really, I paid 300% of what it was worth!;) I just tell myself how happy I madethe seller, lol.
 
LadyBarclay said:
Pleasehelp me out - what is the R/C Rapunzel?
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R/C stands for Reveal/Conceal--a set of pins sold in boxes where one pin is visible and the other is hidden.

In 2010, Disney released a set called Disney Girls. Apparently something happened with the shipment (this was before my time) and the pins became exceedingly difficult to find. Rapunzel looks like this:

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My limit is about 150 for a single pin, but i'm usually willing to go past that to make a deal, i recently payed 250 for 4 of the 6 Jim Shore Carousel pins i wanted.

The only pins i know i'll probably have to end up paying at least 200 each for are the Black baby pegasus (auction and ice-cream series one), The white (Cast exclusive) baby pegasus ice-cream series, and the 4 fantasia auction P.I.N.S centaurettes. But they are my grails so i may end up doing it anyway with very little regrets.

The problem is with each passing year they become more expensive so I just can't seem to catch up. I know if any of the pins i am looking for go over 300, that is when they will officially be kicked off my WL, because unless i hit the lottery, it's just not worth it while i am struggling with two jobs and college.
 
I think the most I've ever spent on a single pin is around $125, and I only spend that after I've sold about the same amount in pins online. I try not to buy pins for more than $25, and my usual cap is $40. I'll spend around $80 for the rarer pins that don't come up very often, and $100-$125 for grails (extremely rarely). I've acquired some of the rarer pins (worth between $250-$300) by a combination of trading and cash, never paying more than $50.

@Kritter: Don't give up! Work on gathering valuable traders, and you may be able to trade for those grails. I bought a $80 pin on eBay that was highly wanted on Pinpics, and I was able to trade it for the pink Fantasia Centaurette (one of my grails as well). And the ice cream pegasus pins go up and down in value on eBay- save it in your searches, and you'll be notified when each one is posted.
 
It depends. For secondary market it is currently $35, up from $30. From Disney directly it can be more. I have bought $200 five pin sets before.
 
SiuJerkJai said:
R/C stands for Reveal/Conceal--a set of pins sold in boxes where one pin is visible and the other is hidden.

In 2010, Disney released a set called Disney Girls. Apparently something happened with the shipment (this was before my time) and the pins became exceedingly difficult to find. Rapunzel looks like this:

pin81948th200
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Still don't get how its worth $2000
The others in the set are priced $100-400
 
Disneycollector4994 said:
Still don't get how its worth $2000
The others in the set are priced $100-400
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Some quick digging tells me that people have estimated there are only 30-50 Rapunzel pins out there. If I understand correctly, only some of the boxes from the collection were lost, and Rapunzel happened to be included in those lost boxes. So you can find the other pins from the collection cheaper, as they were not originally lost and are more plentiful.

That is what I am reading, anyway.
 
We have 69€ Jumbo pins here in Disneyland Paris for special pin events, but I dont think i could spend that much on just 1.
although I realy liked this one

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Wow that's really interesting, I've never heard about any of that. :) cool, but it's sad that happened too.
 
Ninpin said:
Some quick digging tells me that people have estimated there are only 30-50 Rapunzel pins out there. If I understand correctly, only some of the boxes from the collection were lost, and Rapunzel happened to be included in those lost boxes. So you can find the other pins from the collection cheaper, as they were not originally lost and are more plentiful.

That is what I am reading, anyway.
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Any links to this? I'd love to read more about what went on with that series.
 
I've spent $80 on a single pin (a LE 100 Jumbo Kermit pin), but fortunately my main collection (Muppets) does not have many super-duper-expensive pins. $80 is probably about the top of my range. For most of the pins I purchase, it ends up being between $10-$30.
 
a4matte said:
Any links to this? I'd love to read more about what went on with that series.
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I'm not at the same computer right now, so I can't track back to everything that I read before, but I found this just now - there were mentions of missing shipments near the bottom of both threads.

http://disneypinforum.com/archive/index.php/t-39758.html

http://disneypinforum.com/archive/index.php/t-44586.html

Now I'm bothered that I can't find the thread that I read the other day about the numbers!
 
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