wicked wrote:I have to admit, I'm one of those pin nazis :) I just went to Dland this past week and when I see someone with as lanyard, I stop them. Don't wear the pins if you don't want to be stopped..but I wait until they're done counting...I would never go to someone on a gurney though!! I mean major SG...wtf??
I like to wear my favorite pins on my lanyard. I do not trade and I know many others who do the same as I do. We just like to have some of our favorite pins on our lanyards. Not everyone wearing a lanyard with pins, trades. I collect my faves. My pins are very special and usually very HTF and one of a kinds. Usually when people see the pins on my lanyard, they KNOW they are not tradable pins, they are my keepers. They can tell by how rare or LE the pin is.
So, don't be offended when I say I don't trade pins if you see my lanyard and ask me to trade. Many of us just love our pins and like to wear some of them.
And if I ever were to trade, which I do infrequently, I bring traders in a little plastic bag and trade ONLY with CMs, never with other pin traders. I have had enough experience in the past with Pin Nazi's to ever want to trade with them again. Not to mention all the worry about fake pins and the other stuff that goes with collecting a certain item. You have to be on the ball all the time to know the worth and if it is real, etc...etc... and I just don't want to be that involved with pins anymore.
I also always carry a bag of pins with me and give them away to kids.
I have a great friend, (you know who you are!) who trades and gets me some special pins in my favorite category. She loves pin trading and has a lot of fun doing it, so she gets the fun of trading and I can collect some of my favorites. It is not really fun for me. But she loves it and has some great pins. And she is a fair trader. I have a lot of pins to give her. I have given her pins in the past, so she has more to trade with. I still have too many pins and I am slowly paring down my collection. I have approximately 1000-1200 pins of different types and I want to cut my collection down to just a couple of my favorite characters. So my friend is going to get the majority of the collection and have a blast trading them or keeping what she likes for her collection!
I used to really be into collecting pins, but have lost interest in it and I am happy that my friend has a love for it, so I know who to give them to.
Now I hear they are trying to do the same with Vinylmation. Since you don't know which one you are going to get when you buy one, they want to set up Vinylmation trading soon. A CM was telling me they hoped that it would be as big as pins, though I don't think it will.
I still will always buy a few pins each trip to commemorate our trip. When we go to WDW in a few weeks I will buy Flower and Garden Show pins as well as a few others. But I am just not into pins as much as I used to be. It's a good thing, it saves a LOT of money! ;)