TeenaS
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Aug 31, 2000
Yes..it used to be a major indicator...
but...I have personally opened hundreds of mystery pins.....
that I bought at the park..
that have the edge.
I think they started doing it in the beginning of the year.
and you are right...
some disney pins are not perfect...
I find imperfections about 2% of the time..
once again..the BEST way to figure out scrappers...
is to study the pics of the big lots.
99 percent of all scrappers are in these lots..
and the pics are there for everyone to see..
if you see pins that are in these lots..
the answer is simple..
do not buy those.
from anyone.
and unfortunately...
even the real ones from the park.
the reason...?
everyone will think they are fake.
and..no matter what..
people want their collections to have some perceived value.
even if they never sell them..
they want the value to be there...
and..if you have pins that are in the giant scrapper lots..
it will not be.
Thank you for all that information. But isn't it true that the scrappers are the ones that are made at the same factories where they make the legit Disney pins and then after quality control eliminates the ones that have flaws in them, those flawed ones are the ones that are being taken and sold in huge lots from oversees? So if that is where the so-called scrappers come from, doesn't that make it pretty much a given that all pins can have the good ones and the "scrapper" version?