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agent21
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 Posted - 10/22/2012 : 14:37:29
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| How many pins did your team order per player and/or how many pins did your players actually trade? Don't want to waste money and/or have useless leftovers. How many for younger siblings? I have heard they enjoy trading with players and/or other siblings and umpires too. |
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psindians14
735 Posts |
Posted - 10/22/2012 : 15:43:09
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| we order pins for every boy on the team the week we went they were 106 teams there so we order each player 110 pins each |
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NGBSA-Suwanee
11 Posts |
Posted - 10/22/2012 : 17:27:24
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| Umpires get 20 each. |
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SSBuckeye
575 Posts |
Posted - 10/22/2012 : 20:16:17
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| You won't have any leftovers! Our kids took 75-100 on average. |
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peashooter
297 Posts |
Posted - 10/23/2012 : 09:46:59
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we had 2 sets of 110 per kid. Most kids either lose a bunch, don't properly trade them etc. you will have around 3-4 kids get all the pins. I would suggest doing smaller runs of many patterns (more expensive) but its all about the rarity of the pins. Only 25 of these were made, etc...
I had so many parents laughing that they still had 100 pins left over after the trip. There really isn't a ton of time to trade the pins. |
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RACGOFAR
208 Posts |
Posted - 10/23/2012 : 12:29:04
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Half your players will trade, the other half will not care and on the last day or two will start to trade. The moms will spend a lot of time trying to trade. They sell cool pin albums there for $20.
Having more than one style makes them more desirable and easier to trade. If you get all the same style pins, the trade market gets flooded and its harder to trade them late in the week because all the kids aggressively trading have them. And the kids aggressively trading will wan to get all versions of a team's pins. |
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SSBuckeye
575 Posts |
Posted - 10/23/2012 : 13:17:33
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| Our experience was different. The later in the week you traded, the more valuable your pins were, particularly if you had different versions. You could command 5 for 1. Of course, most of our kids took less pins than there were teams. If you took over 100, then you might end up with extras. Our team was aggressive in the trading market and we found more than enough time to trade. I don't even think our parents got involved. |
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NGBSA-Suwanee
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Posted - 10/25/2012 : 11:30:46
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| There is a TON of time to trade pins... They play 1 or 2 games a day until they reach elimination day. There will be a hand full of backyard teams that are really good in their small town, but are basically just a rec team compared to GA Travel Baseball. Kids will be all over the place. Brkfst, lunch, dinner, ball fields, and walking around just asking to trade. Besides pins, there are also coins that are traded. |
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Cooperstown Pin-Trading
