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

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What's the most you've spent (or would spend) on a pin?
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Just wondering...lol. Whether it be eBay, a purchase on here, or at a store, what's the most you've spent on a single pin? Aka, I think I'm trying to justify some big purchases soon!
 
That is easy, the most I will ever spend on any one pin for me is 50 dollars. I just can't justify spending more then that on myself.

Now as for zaps, that is a whole other story. I think the most I have spent is 125. But that is to bring happiness to somebody else and is much easier to justify in my own warped sense of right and wrong. :crazy:
 
Best answer ever! I hope to one day have a bunch of pins I can zap to people and more money to help out others with their collections.
 
One of my grails shows up on ebay every once and while for over $200 - can't do it - even for a grail. Maybe if I wasn't a poor teacher I'd think differently - LOL - probably not. $75-$100 I think has been my highest. That was part trade, part cash to get my Stitch as Cheshire with Alice pin.

Having said that, IF I could easily afford the extra $200 without something else being neglected, I'd gladly pay it. I do believe some pins are worth it (low LE, old, not many in circulation).
 
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I've spent $50-$60 on a pin since that's cheaper than airfare to Disney Land, Paris, or HK. It should be cheaper than filling the Pony up to run back and forth to WDW, but I enjoy going up there so sometimes Florida pins cost me even more! ;)
 
I think 40 is the most I've spent. My grail set is on eBay for $254 right now and after never seeing it for sale before(it's LE 100) I was tempted. But we got into pin collecting because we love going to WDW and I don't want to spend so much on pins that it takes away from our family trip budget. I will just keep hoping that it will be less expensive someday or that I will get the pins I need to trade for them.
 
I've spent $50 once or twice, but I don't think I'd do that again. My cap nowadays seems to hover around $35, and even that is infrequent.

The exception would be a low LE set that's available directly from the Disney Store website. I tried for the Fairytale Couples set last year. They sold out before I could get one in my cart, but I was ready to buy. I did buy the live-action Maleficent set from DS.com to trade, and I bought the Pixar set to co-op on the forum. Releases from DS.com are such rare events that they seem worth the occasional splurge.
 
Generally speaking I try to limit my max to 40, though I will admit to caving and spending 60 on the Iron Man character key pin. A lot of pins I want go for more than 40 on the secondary market but I feel uncomfortable spending a lot on a small piece of pretty metal. If there's something I really, really want that's on the expensive side, I'll wait until around the holidays to pick it up; by then I have a good amount of money saved up.
 
I spent $75 just once - on my holy grail - and that was after over 2 years of serious trading.

In the beginning, i tried not to spend over $20 on a single pin. (Funny how at one time, spending $20 on a piece of metal seemed ludicrous. Now I'm lucky if I can get any pin off my wants list for under $30.)

I still try not to ever go over $50-60, even for a grail.

But I'm sure it would be a different story if I had a nice, steady job and more money in my bank account! :lol:
 
So far the highest I've ever spent on a single pin that was for me, not resale, was about $45 when all was said and done. It was a lot for me and I sold pins to try and make up for it.

There are pins I'd consider going higher for but only if I was selling other pins to try and make up the difference. There are just some pins that I seem to never have what anyone wants u_u
 
For a single pin, about $300-400. For a set of pins, I'd say $1000~ish (first set of designer fairytale couples). I am still kicking myself for not buying the 2011 Designer Princess set of pins for $400 two weeks after it came out. Or for $1000 the year after (in 2012). Now it's hovering around $4000 so that's definitely out of my reach.

I set aside funds each paycheck to go towards a pin I want so that when I find that pin, I can use the credit card and then pay it off right away without incurring.

I have a separate stash of funds for dolls :)
 
Oh! Hm, I don't know if I want to actually admit what I've spent for a single pin, LOL! However, for most low edition size purchases I'm okay until about eighty dollars then I start to get twitchy. :D
 
The most I've spent on a single pin is $115. However, it was a pin that I had been chasing for a couple years, it was hard to find and I'm glad I got it when I did as I haven't seen it sell for less that twice that since. I probably won't spend that much again but I have been tempted.

My strategy to help me not spend money: when a pin costs more than my one most expensive pin I look at the pin that tempts me and ask if I want it (or love it) more than I wanted (or love) my most expensive pin. If the answer is no then I have to pass. I've passed on more than a handful of pins. :)
 
Disneycollector4994 said:
wow those are worth that much!? o_o
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I was thinking the same however upon reading the PinPics description it seems to be extremely rare , maybe only 1-2 still in existence !
Personally I've spent around $90 on a single pin a couple of times but I try and stick to $50 or less . Most I buy are $30 or less though . Fortunately most of the collections I have aren't super expensive although each has pins that are completely beyond my budget .
 
Most so far I believe is around $175 and anything around that price tends to be an LE 100 DA pin. It seems like I was lucky to jump into pin trading when I did. I was able to find a lot of jumbos and DA pins at fairly good prices on ebay at the time. Now when, or even if, they pop up they go for 2x or 3x what I paid for them.
 
I've gone a bit higher for pin sets, but the most I've spent on any single pin was $80 for the Skippy PTD. I sometime even now cringe at spending that much for a single pin, but considering his value now it was a good investment.
 
I've spent $250 and $150 on low edition or grail pins for my main collection a couple of times, but I always felt nauseous afterwards, and I still do when I think back on it! Nowadays I try not to look at anything above $40 or so unless it's an extremely HTF pin that I have been after for one of my main collections, but even then it would have to be rather special. There are some pins that I still want where I simply refuse spend that much money on them, even if they are rare. Totally subjective I guess.

Lately I have been trying to cut back on pin spending even further, however!

:lol:
 
Not counting framed sets, I spent $175.00 on the Haunted Mansion super jumbo pin from the O-Pin House collection on Aug. 6th, 2009. Thank goodness, at least I was able to purchase it at DLR on the day of release instead of Ebay prices later!
 
The most I have spent was $300 (Pin 1098: hitch hiking ghost dangle pin) I've also spent $200 on this set (pin 85806 WDW - Room For One More Event - Framed Pin Set)
I also spent a bit on this pin but I'm not saying how much...lol. (Pin 2939 Maleficent Boxed Diva Event Gift)
 
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