Name All of These COUNTERFEIT Tiki Mugs - General Tiki

E EnchantedTikiGoth Member Calgary, Canada Joined: Dec 31, 2003 Posts: 355	E EnchantedTikiGoth Posted posted on Mon, Apr 30, 2018 1:44 PM On 2018-04-30 13:35, AceExplorer wrote: The Krakatoa look-alike reminded me that a lot of mugs are made in China anyways. I have heard that in many cases after they produce what is originally ordered and paid for by their customer that they will continue the production run and then sell more copies (illegally, from our point of view, but not from theirs) and sell it on Alibaba and AliExpress online. They do that with Disney pins too. They overproduce the official pins and then hawk them to sellers on places like Ebay, who then hawk them off in those "100 pins for $25, 100% tradable in park!" type grab bags. Disney castmembers aren't allowed to turn down trades from guests, most of whom probably just got them off Ebay without knowing any better, which means these bootlegs are prolific throughout the parks. There's pretty much no point to doing the "Official Pin Trading" in the parks, because you are virtually guaranteed to be getting a bootleg. In Disney pin trading circles, these bootlegs are nicknamed "scrapers" (as in, only useful for..., should have been...).

On 2018-04-30 13:35, AceExplorer wrote:
The Krakatoa look-alike reminded me that a lot of mugs are made in China anyways. I have heard that in many cases after they produce what is originally ordered and paid for by their customer that they will continue the production run and then sell more copies (illegally, from our point of view, but not from theirs) and sell it on Alibaba and AliExpress online.

They do that with Disney pins too. They overproduce the official pins and then hawk them to sellers on places like Ebay, who then hawk them off in those "100 pins for $25, 100% tradable in park!" type grab bags. Disney castmembers aren't allowed to turn down trades from guests, most of whom probably just got them off Ebay without knowing any better, which means these bootlegs are prolific throughout the parks. There's pretty much no point to doing the "Official Pin Trading" in the parks, because you are virtually guaranteed to be getting a bootleg. In Disney pin trading circles, these bootlegs are nicknamed "scrapers" (as in, only useful for..., should have been...).

Post #786419 by EnchantedTikiGoth on Mon, Apr 30, 2018 1:44 PM