No more DLR GWP

Re: No more DLR GWP

feeds@yuku.com (jackfan33) — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 10:01:38 GMT

not sure "no interest" is accurate...just different ideas that aren't in line with our expectations

Re: No more DLR GWP

feeds@yuku.com (pluto boy) — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:38:34 GMT

With all the chnages we have seen why would anyone be surprised??
WDW Changes:

No more Surprise pins
No more Spectacle of Pins Event (which was awesome!!!)
No more Thursday Trading nights
No more Satruday afternoons at Pop Century
Lame lanyards......

Let's face it the person running pin trading has no interest...otherwise we would have had better lanyard pins, better event gifts, and MORE opportunities to trade.

Re: No more DLR GWP

feeds@yuku.com (echoharmony) — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 02:05:05 GMT

I think I'm invisible *lol* I said that back a while ago on this thread. Thanks for the compassion, Lou!! I've worked every holiday voluntarily for the last two and a half years, partly because I want the pin! *lol* now I think I'm goign to start asking for holidays off if there isn't going to be a working day pin anymore! Makes me sad. My dad has every working day pin from 2003 until now, we're both bummed that there won't be any more.

Re: No more DLR GWP

feeds@yuku.com (jackfan33) — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 01:14:39 GMT

wow...hadnt read that yet...what a shame...not that its the same for pin traders, but if they are truly turning to the uniform policy between WDW and DLR...hopefully they will at least do a button or something. Like you said, the cm's that work that day deserve some kind of recognition

Re: No more DLR GWP

feeds@yuku.com (pooh4lou) — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 01:03:36 GMT

The saddest thing I have read here is no more "working day" pins. I feel the cast members who give up time with their families to spend it with all of the "guest" at least deserve a pin for their collection!

Re: No more DLR GWP

feeds@yuku.com (jackfan33) — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:56:56 GMT

while we didnt do mych buying to get GWP pins I think that 1st Sunday of the month which typically is a big day for trading...will see a significant drop off...I can see the logic behind it in a way...trying to make DLR and WDW more uniform and perhaps its viewed as an unnecasary cost but I think there are a lot of things that really cant be measured here...the biggest of which is how many purchases are made on a GWP sunday just because there are more traders in the park? How many people only...

Re: No more DLR GWP

feeds@yuku.com (Sparrowette) — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:24:47 GMT

GWP pins have never been a factor in our pin buying. It will not affect us in the least.
The ever increasing prices of the actual pins being released has made us cut back alot! We do not even purchase many of the Holidays pins anymore. We have been selective now also. Have to concentrate on one character or attraction at a time. This summer into the Fall will be HM and NBC. My other collections are hurting but this is how it has to be.

Yvonne and Fred

Re: No more DLR GWP

feeds@yuku.com (slayersludge) — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 23:59:01 GMT

karkura wrote:
Pin trading is what makes people buy! They see cast walking around with lanyards full of pins, or they see someone trading, then their curiosity kicks in, they ask a few questions, and WHAM... new pin buyer / trader.

I had this happen the last few times I was at the park. Someone saw me trade with a cast member and they started asking questions about what pins could be traded with them. I don't...

Re: No more DLR GWP

feeds@yuku.com (Pinhead57) — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 23:02:35 GMT

I don't see how and why they would want to phase out pin trading to focus on pin buying. Pin trading is what makes people buy! They see cast walking around with lanyards full of pins, or they see someone trading, then their curiosity kicks in, they ask a few questions, and WHAM... new pin buyer / trader. If cast and guests don't walk around and pin trade, then who is going to buy? That would be the worst mistake ever!

I agree that having CMs wearing...

Re: No more DLR GWP

feeds@yuku.com (thartman79) — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 21:15:28 GMT

Karkura says
I don't see how and why they would want to phase out pin trading to focus on pin buying

Nobody ever accused the upper management of Disney of being rocket scientists

Re: No more DLR GWP

feeds@yuku.com (thartman79) — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 21:11:28 GMT

I will miss GWP Sundays because that was the best day for trading and when PTN and GWP Sunday is on the same day forget about it. That's the only reason I will miss GWP Sundays. Never changed my spending habits. Most of the time I just got the pins off lanyards anyways. It is sad that they have to change something that they've been doing for such a long time though. Oh well. Such is life.

Re: No more DLR GWP

feeds@yuku.com (tyleet87) — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 20:22:09 GMT

Seriously....what bad decisions.

Re: No more DLR GWP

feeds@yuku.com (karkura) — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 20:07:27 GMT

I don't see how and why they would want to phase out pin trading to focus on pin buying. Pin trading is what makes people buy! They see cast walking around with lanyards full of pins, or they see someone trading, then their curiosity kicks in, they ask a few questions, and WHAM... new pin buyer / trader. If cast and guests don't walk around and pin trade, then who is going to buy? That would be the worst mistake ever!

Re: No more DLR GWP

feeds@yuku.com (echoharmony) — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 19:58:33 GMT

Not only are they taking away the GWP Sundays pin, but they are no longer going to be giving cast members a pin on 4th of July, Thanksgiving, or Christmas as a thank you for working. Nope, no more cast working day pins. They'll continue with giving out BUTTONS, as far as I know.

Re: No more DLR GWP

feeds@yuku.com (suzanneb47) — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:51:27 GMT

Bottom line , if sales go way down starting in Jan, they may reconsider just as they did the $2:pin increase We can only hope!

Re: No more DLR GWP

feeds@yuku.com (Pinhead57) — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 14:22:41 GMT

Unfortunately, this came straight from Steven Miller's mouth during the Epcot event. Scoop's 1 o'clock pin talk consisted of Scoop interviewing Steven.

Ohhhh....I wasn't there, didn't know this...

I think it's a bad marketing decision. I personally don't go every GWP Sunday but I know that a LOT of pin traders do, have for years, and not just So Cal locals, and that's when they buy buy buy.

My opinion...

Re: No more DLR GWP

feeds@yuku.com (America Sings Freak) — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 09:58:13 GMT

I usually only buy traders on GWP so this will affect how I buy my pins. I am probably going to buy less now since I do not get a free pin with the purchase. The PWP does not seem as exclusive and makes it seem like they are just going to give a HM like they did in WDW, although the set is going to be shared I highly doubt the PWP will be as exclusive or wanted as a set as the GWP sets have been these many years. Just my $.02.

~Benji

Re: No more DLR GWP

feeds@yuku.com (suzanneb47) — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 09:51:04 GMT

Unfortunately, this came straight from Steven Miller's mouth during the Epcot event. Scoop's 1 o'clock pin talk consisted of Scoop interviewing Steven.
He did say there would be a purchase with purchase program, but those pins stay the same for a LONG TIME, not the themed sets like at DLR.
IMHO, I wish other posters would express their own opinions and not "speak for others"
Still sad

Re: No more DLR GWP

feeds@yuku.com (dawnid) — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 01:38:04 GMT

Well my wallet will appreciate not spending $200 on the first Sunday of every month. Now I can just buy the pins I want to keep and not worry about traders. I've already cut back on buying two of anything that can be bought in WDW also.

Re: No more DLR GWP

feeds@yuku.com (Pinhead57) — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 01:15:54 GMT

I am disappointed that DLR has made this decision and will miss GWP Sundays!

I was at DLR today and asked a couple of CMs about this...they all told me this is a RUMOR so far, no one has heard anything about this being definite. And we all know how rumors fly around the parks...even among the CMs (especially among the CMs, lol!).

Hannette

No more DLR GWP

feeds@yuku.com (suzanneb47) — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 10:04:41 GMT

Is there a thread about the DLR first Sunday GWP series coming to an end after Dec 2009?
I'm really bummed about it.
I think sales of pins at DLR will plummet; any DLR regulars want to share thoughts?