And you see I understand what you did and the reason for it... kind of like buying an old newspaper from the day someone was born which you are likely going to be paying well above the cover price of the paper to buy.... I get it.
I still think it is silly when grown ups start collecting pins... I've seen my daughter go to some of the pin trading points at EPCOT where I see adults that have probably gotten more money tied up in their pins than the average person has in a car... And I'm sorry I just don't get it.... These people aren't trying to sell the pins, in fact most of them they wouldn't dare sell.... but in the future I can't see these pins being worth much more than they are worth today. I suppose it must just be a hobby... but I just can't get my arms around a hobby that is basically buying tiny little things you can't use, and then having to keep them pretty much locked up in a book so at most you can occasionally flip through the book looking at them... I just boggles my mind as an absolute nutty thing to do.
There are people who think it's silly for adults (without kids) to go to Disney World at all.
Someone just sold a set of 24 Disney movie related pins on ebay for $4,500. That's not silly.
I guess I object to your judgment of others for what they decide they want to collect. Why should it matter whether you think it's silly or worthwhile? Maybe someone special to them enjoyed Disney pins and they are doing it in remembrance, or were simply inspired by that person, or it reminds the collector of them.
Maybe their Grandmother started them off collecting when they were kids, and they are continuing that collection as adults - maybe eventually for their kids or grandkids, maybe not.
It could be a way to collect Disney stuff that is small and easy to store, and doesn't cost a fortune per piece?
Maybe they enjoy trading pins with others. I'm sure there are folks here who could tell us why and to what extent they collect pins or anything else.
I don't have to understand their motivation, nor do I feel it's cool to criticize or ridicule them. I don't collect pins because I don't enjoy it. I've gotten a few over the years, maybe that's enough for some folks to feel they have started a collection and to keep going with that.
I've collected coins. I've collected stamps. I've collected baseball cards, records, and CD's.
Eventually that turned into a business. That business started by selling CD's on line and now it's a traditional brick and mortar record store. I don't need that to justify what I do, but there it is.
Many people sell things on the side within their hobby to support their buying habits for that hobby. Knowledge is power, in that regard.
That was the best thing about eBay: it equalized the average person and the traditional dealer to a great degree. No longer did you have to bring your used xyz items to a dealer and get paid half the retail price or less for it. Now you could put it on ebay and ask the same price the dealer would ask. And all you had to do was sign up, no investment into rent, remodeling, or anything else - just fees when it sells.
I've heard of people collecting and selling all kinds of things that I didn't know had any value, but they do.
If somebody enjoys something, leave them alone and let them enjoy it.
The thing is you don't need to get it. If someone likes a thing and that thing is not hurting anyone else why spend even a second worrying about the why.
I can't for the life of me understand why someone would spend 17 weeks a year obsessing over a fantasy football team and I don't need to.
Thank you for saying in two sentences what I blabbered on about a lot longer.
) Sadly, none of the survived my teenage years.
