APs abusing other guests?
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APs abusing other guests?
Have then been many reports of APs being stupid, rude, and abusive to other guests as well as CMs?
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Persistant Pin Traders
I work in Tomorrowland stores where we get to deal with a lot of the persistant pin traders. Last night my manager told us a story about a couple of these pin traders...
My manager was in a meeting on the other side of the park somewhere. This was on the first Sunday of the month (which is a Gift with Purchase Sunday in the Premiere shop). So there were a lot of people in the Premiere shop wanting to buy buy buy so they can earn free pins. Three friends were in the store together looking at stuff. They got seperated in the store and somewhere in all of the chaos of the store, one of the three passes out. The other friends didn't notice that he had passed out, and they kept on their merry way buying pins and such. So the CM's in the store call 911 and for Alpha 1 (do they still call emergency services that?). The manager was notified via radio and she started to quickly walk across the park. She said that around Jungle Cruise, she got stopped by pin traders who wanted to look at her lanyard. She politely told them that on any other day, she would be happy to stop and trade, but she had an emergency in one of her stores. The guest was adament about her stopping and trading. When the guest realized that my manager wasn't going to be able to trade with them the guest stated that "The only emergency that you (my manager) are going to have is me (the guest)!" And I guess that the guest stormed off. My manager continued to walk to Premiere.
Just another reason why I hate pins and their owners.
My manager was in a meeting on the other side of the park somewhere. This was on the first Sunday of the month (which is a Gift with Purchase Sunday in the Premiere shop). So there were a lot of people in the Premiere shop wanting to buy buy buy so they can earn free pins. Three friends were in the store together looking at stuff. They got seperated in the store and somewhere in all of the chaos of the store, one of the three passes out. The other friends didn't notice that he had passed out, and they kept on their merry way buying pins and such. So the CM's in the store call 911 and for Alpha 1 (do they still call emergency services that?). The manager was notified via radio and she started to quickly walk across the park. She said that around Jungle Cruise, she got stopped by pin traders who wanted to look at her lanyard. She politely told them that on any other day, she would be happy to stop and trade, but she had an emergency in one of her stores. The guest was adament about her stopping and trading. When the guest realized that my manager wasn't going to be able to trade with them the guest stated that "The only emergency that you (my manager) are going to have is me (the guest)!" And I guess that the guest stormed off. My manager continued to walk to Premiere.
Just another reason why I hate pins and their owners.
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I'm an AP and I just don't get the whole pin trading thing. Went to DTD to check out National Treasure and afterwards I checked out the Haunted Mansion Holiday and the new paint job on Sleeping Beauty Castle. Both were cool. But I was dumbfounded to see how many pin carts there were throughout the park. I was lost on the whole Disney Beanie Baby thing but the pins------maybe I'm just ignorant 'cause I don't see the "fun" part of it. Not to be sexist but are dudes doing this pin trading thing or is it just the ladies for the most part?
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Pin Trading
I notice that the pin fad is pretty equal when it comes to males or females. It does seem to be many thirty-somethings and above. And they think because they are an adult (and I don't look my age) that I should respect them more. But just like the AP posts, there are nice pin traders who are regulars. But I wish the fad would just go away.
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I buy pins cause I like the way they look. I don't trade them I don't want to. I like my pins! I also NEVER wear a lanyard with pins on them. I wear my holiday pins on my costume when we get them or any other special pin we can wear. My mom has been collecting Pins for ages (not Disney pins just pins in general it started with Wild Animal Park ones). So she likes to brouse through the pins and get one she likes every now and then.

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Thank GOD!!! I wore pins one day at work and could not get the traders off my back. It drove me batty, and I never did it again.Yfoog wrote:I'm an AP and I just don't get the whole pin trading thing.
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"Dreams are as portals,
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I used to enjoy the pin trading. I never could understand how people got so insane about it (like the pin trader, who wanted to buy some pins that were only available on a given day, ONE per paying park guest, who paid for tickets for two complete strangers, on the agreement that they'd buy the - I dunno, EIGHT DOLLAR - pin for him, with his money), or why they'd go to an amusement park, with rides and shows and so on, while dragging an airport luggage carrier full of several thousand pieces of seldom seen and less cared about pieces of brass and glass. The only pins I've cared to collect were relating to the Disney weddings as my wife and I were married inside the park ourselves, so we want to remember it.CujoSR wrote:Thank GOD!!! I wore pins one day at work and could not get the traders off my back. It drove me batty, and I never did it again.Yfoog wrote:I'm an AP and I just don't get the whole pin trading thing.