We buy pin lots on Ebay before every trip. We are going this year for 10 days so we ended up buying 300 pins for this trip so the 4 of us have pins to trade. We keep some of the ones we like then trade the rest. Fake or not, I don't care. They look great and are a cheap way to build a collection. We ended up getting all of ours this year for around 70 cents a piece. Can't beat that. We have never had a problem with Ebay pins.