Just an honest vent..
I have been a pin trader for years.. since 2003. I feel like since 2020, everything has just gone mad. Collectors can't get the pins, people are swiping them up and are charging 2..3..4..5x the price for these pins. I'm really getting pin-fatigue at this point. I don't recall pre-2020 it being THIS bad. Maybe social media has something to do with it, or maybe I am getting older and just realizing it more. Resellers are just killing this hobby. (I am not talking about pin shoppers that are fair with pricing and just doing pickups).
The D23 event was probably the straw that broke the camels back for me. Seeing people get massive amounts of pins just to sell them gave me such an ick. The people that went to the event and actually wanted them will never be able to get them. The same "Pinfluencers" always get into the events. The same thing online... I wanted 1 pin and JR's book. I had 4 browsers open.. 1 at 13k, the others were +45k. This is insane to me.
Admittedly I also have FOMO on some of these pins and try to complete the set. But the economy, and financial priorities, I just cant see spending what some of these people do on pins anymore. I love pins but I think going forward I will really have to pull back and assess what I really want and get rid of the fomo and the need to have all the new pins.
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