jackskellingtonsgirl
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Nov 14, 2004
Has anyone ever wondered where and how these sellers are able to get these pins in bulk to sell on eBay? I just bought my first and only lot of 15 pins and although they look fine several of them are listed on pinpics as questionable. The seller I bought from had very high feedback and is at 100% but they also have many lots to sell and some as much as 100 pins. Where would they all come from if they weren't scrappers or counterfeits? I feel pretty dumb now in retrospect.
They buy them in bulk from the Chinese counterfeiters. But it is a losing battle to try to post that on every thread. People just want cheap pins to trade. They don't care if the pins are authentic, they don't care of other traders are going to end up with the counterfeit junk, they just want cheap pins. There is NO WAY to profit from selling an $8 pin on eBay for $2. Pretty simple.
This is a very sore subject for me. I have read so many posts where people are whining that authentic pins are too expensive, their kids should be able to trade pins, so they are going to buy counterfeits and their kids are going to trade!
Then when they get called out on it they claim it is "too hard" to tell real pins from the fakes. Hello? If the seller has THOUSANDS of the SAME PINS they are counterfeit! It DOES NOT MATTER if the seller has good feedback and it DOES NOT MATTER if the pins have a Disney back stamp! People who are leaving positive feedback wouldn't know a fake pin if it bit them. And of course the fake pins have a Disney back stamp! The POINT of a counterfeit object is for it to look real enough to pass off as authentic!