My thoughts exactly, but I wouldn't be surprised to see the boards stay behind the counter a bit more than usual.
Some people ask me why I carry magnets.
I doubt they will stop it. All you need to do is have the guest push the pin into the board and the CM remove the one they want and put their back on it and then hand it to them. They aren't going to be giving away mouse ears and will still be taking money for those things and handing guests back change so why would a pin be any different from the exchange of money that happens all over Disney. Not to mention why would they shut down a marketing gimmick that drives the sale of a high margin item like a pin? I can't see them stopping it as it would be hurting their pin sales and that's some serious money when you think about a pin that cost 10 dollars and probably cost Disney 10 cents.
I just hope you know that it will only catch some of the fakes... not all fakes use magnetic material and it will do nothing in catching the backdoor pins where the factor was just over producing or handing off real pins that didn't pass the quality control. I find it best to simply assume every pin on a pin board is fake and only trade for it if you like it. In the end real or fake the pins are worth anymore than what you or someone is willing to pay for them and most will never be worth more than the original price they sold for... though I've known some people that seem to think they are some hot collectible I just laugh and think of past people that thought Beanie Babies were collectibles and bought them think they would be worth lots in the future... course I can find some of the ones they spend 40 or 50 dollars on when the Beanie Baby market was big for less than a dollar a garage sale or flea market.
We trade and collect what we like. And yes, the magnets are surely not a catch all for fakes. I most enjoy the hunt to complete a set, then trade away for the next. Kids love to see all the pins, and it's fun to give some away too. I doubt the kids know what's real or fake.
If they are like mine they don't know and don't care which is real or fake. The just do it for the fun of it either because they like them or once in a while as a contest between them to see who can get the most Mickeys or Plutos or whatever character they decide to chase for the day. But they only use junk pins for trading because I got way to annoyed with them trading real pins when they first started and ending up with clearly cheap junk pins. I would say after any given day of trading with CMs that they might be getting 3 percent real pins and the rest junk pins... and when I use the word junk pins I'm not saying pure fakes I consider any pin that is either clearly a fake, or a backdoor pin or even one of those real pins that was maybe one of 8 that was sold as a set to get people started as junk pins... which if you don't want to go down the road of using the junkers off ebay you can often get from one of the local Disney outlets for a low price, I know one trip we stopped there and picked up several sets of pins for trading simply because the per pin price of them was under 2 dollars simply because they were starter pin sets that Disney couldn't sell. So you can get cheap trading pins that are legit if you want to.
People collect certain themes or characters and decide over time to alter what they keep in their collections and trade away. Some pins have more personal value to you than others and others not, so they are looked at as tradable. Sometimes trading pin for pin just to trade and start conversations is a reason. Also buying pins in bulk ( not all are scrappers if you purchase from known dealers in real pins) you will have some you keep, while others you trade away. I can understand how some non-pin traders cant understand the fun of pin trading or what you can get out of doing it, but we all enjoy different Disney experiences and for a large part of us who have pin traded for years and have extensive collections... it is something that adds to our Disney park day. By the way, my DS cant stand pin trading and hates it when we go together and I take time look at CM lanyards for trades.
Absolutely not between guests. Cast members will trade anything that is a Disney pintrader.
