News Buying merchandise with the intent to resell to be banned at Tokyo Disney, could Walt Disney World follow?

[DisneyDebRob]

Ties up less in inventory too

Never was the case in the past. Except for Disney, most companies or stores made out better with lowering the price. There was a saying my parents always told me..Little pigs get fed..big pigs get slaughtered. Of course meaning, keep the prices affordable and you will stay in business, price to high and people won’t come. Was the truth most of the time.
Disney has changed the saying a bit but let’s keep an eye on it. I have a feeling a reckoning is coming at some point. Just have to wait and see.

 

[Cmdr_Crimson]

It would be nice if it was linked to your park ticket and have it tracked that way to catch them easier and ban them..

 

[Smiley/OCD]

Knew some folks from Brazil that frequently visited Orlando ( Orlando shopping outlets, FL mall etc ) and bought in bulk , clothes , shoes, electronics , no limit in quantities only to resell in Brazil to many willing buyers. Theme parks are not the only rodeo in town.

No but they ARE for Figment & Mr. Toad popcorn buckets…if someone comes up from SA and wants to buy 200 pairs of jeans on International Drive, more power to them! Popcorn buckets and spirit jerseys, that’s a completely different story.

 

[ToTBellHop]

 

[HauntedPirate]

- Limit certain items to 1 per consumer
- Must scan your MB/park ticket/AP
- If the address on your MDE account has already been scanned and purchased an item, denied

Before anyone gets too up-in-arms, this would have considerable impact to my family of 6, particularly if a few of the kids wanted the same item, which can and does happen.

I'd imagine a few cease-and-desist letters to eBay resellers (I'd imagine Disney Legal and eBay Legal have met a few times) could curtail things as well.

 

[Smiley/OCD]

Never was the case in the past. Except for Disney, most companies or stores made out better with lowering the price. There was a saying my parents always told me..Little pigs get fed..big pigs get slaughtered. Of course meaning, keep the prices affordable and you will stay in business, price to high and people won’t come. Was the truth most of the time.
Disney has changed the saying a bit but let’s keep an eye on it. I have a feeling a reckoning is coming at some point. Just have to wait and see.

2 ways to run a retail business…sell less pieces at a higher price or lower the price and make your profit in volume…I always preferred volume, because you move product faster, lessening the chance you get stuck with inventory when the demand is over and you have a better public reputation.

 

[HauntedPirate]

2 ways to run a retail business…sell less pieces at a higher price or lower the price and make your profit in volume…I always preferred volume, because you move product faster, lessening the chance you get stuck with inventory when the demand is over and you have a better public reputation.

You must have real-world experience. Unlike the Bob's, who simply got their degrees from fancy universities and then think they are experts.

 

[rct247]

It may be easier to tackle the problem from the opposite end: why are people going to these resellers, and sometimes paying higher prices, to get these items? It would take away the exclusivity of items, but if more park merchandise was sold online through official sources, we probably would have less of an issue. For instance, if I'm looking for Tower of Terror merchandise, the only thing specific to it on shopDisney.com (currently) is a Funko Pop set. I know more Tower products exist. If I was not able to take a trip to Disney, let alone solely to purchase an item I want, then of course, I am going to look for other ways to get it even it means paying someone a bit more to get it for me whether I know them or not.

The exclusivity could be there with the advertising that it will also appear on the shopDisney website within a certain time frame. I'm sure the exclusivity gives them the ability to mark up products higher, however, I'm curious if the online sales from across the world would offset it at some point.

That's what I would imagine would cut down on the incentive for locals to go put that much time and effort into it if it won't get them the profits they were getting.

 

[Smiley/OCD]

I think it is impossible for Disney to know exactly who is buying what when. You can limit how many people can buy which is being done with no success. I’ve seen them limit one per person then heard of people bringing 10 friends into the parks to buy one. It’s just impossible. Maybe harsher wording on the site claiming..” if they find out who is selling online they will be banned and AP revoked”. I know that’s a reach but maybe it stops some of the sales?
I think this is just one of those bad situations that cannot be stopped. Maybe controlled a little but that’s it.

You’re right, like scalping Taylor Swift tickets, it can never be stopped completely, BUT TWDC hasn’t done ANYTHING to curtail it.

 

[Smiley/OCD]

You must have real-world experience. Unlike the Bob's, who simply got their degrees from fancy universities and then think they are experts.

Everyone on here says the Bobs were too far up the food chain to worry about such insignificant problems…yup, owned my own business with an MBA in the school of hard knocks, with a degree in trench warfare, lol

 

[Hakunamatata]

Just make more seems like the easy answer. But how much more?

 

[_caleb]

Just make more seems like the easy answer. But how much more?

Seems most Disney parks merch costs more to ship/store than it does to actually produce.

 

[Smiley/OCD]

Just make more seems like the easy answer. But how much more?

Mass producing them just creates a glut when the demand is over and they don’t have the chain of outlet stores to “blow them out”… they just have to take more control at the point of purchase…the problem is corporate doesn’t want to appear as bullies. Limit the sales to X amount per person with NO exceptions, make the retail management and register CM’s liable and do the best you can to try to curtail it.

 

[aladdin2007]

Just make more seems like the easy answer. But how much more?

This, like they use to do....but I think its wrong to make this front page news when its not even news here just because tokyo is doing something and yet cant even say how they are doing it. Its sensationalizing it into something its not, to get clicks I imagine for the holiday weekend?? But this has all come up before and Disney World has made no such announcement of any kind. Sure they can limit count or something, but its only going to hurt them, not to mention they have to be careful you start enforcing too much junk and its getting near communism.

 

[Smiley/OCD]

This, like they use to do....but I think its wrong to make this front page news when its not even news here just because tokyo is doing something and yet cant even say how they are doing it. Its sensationalizing it into something its not, to get clicks I imagine for the holiday weekend?? But this has all come up before and Disney World has made no such announcement of any kind. Sure they can limit count or something, but its only going to hurt them, not to mention they have to be careful you start enforcing too much junk and its getting near communism.

You’re right…it’s a fine line, a tightrope to walk to accomplish the goal and at the same time, not p**s too many guests off.

 

[HauntedPirate]

It may be easier to tackle the problem from the opposite end: why are people going to these resellers, and sometimes paying higher prices, to get these items? It would take away the exclusivity of items, but if more park merchandise was sold online through official sources, we probably would have less of an issue. For instance, if I'm looking for Tower of Terror merchandise, the only thing specific to it on shopDisney.com (currently) is a Funko Pop set. I know more Tower products exist. If I was not able to take a trip to Disney, let alone solely to purchase an item I want, then of course, I am going to look for other ways to get it even it means paying someone a bit more to get it for me whether I know them or not.

The exclusivity could be there with the advertising that it will also appear on the shopDisney website within a certain time frame. I'm sure the exclusivity gives them the ability to mark up products higher, however, I'm curious if the online sales from across the world would offset it at some point.

That's what I would imagine would cut down on the incentive for locals to go put that much time and effort into it if it won't get them the profits they were getting.

Selling online opens up a different can of worms - bots. Then Joe Sixpack's family in Denver can't buy anything online when something new comes out because bots scooped them all up in milliseconds.

 

[Lilofan]

No but they ARE for Figment & Mr. Toad popcorn buckets…if someone comes up from SA and wants to buy 200 pairs of jeans on International Drive, more power to them! Popcorn buckets and spirit jerseys, that’s a completely different story.

Disney fanatics will pay to dollar for limited edition items. Only thing missing is guests standing on line fighting each other like some guests when they stand in line for Popeyes chicken sandwiches at Popeyes locations.

 

[Smiley/OCD]

And Cabbage Patch Kids, Furbys, Beanie Babies, Hess trucks, etc.

 

[Tha Realest]

Selling online opens up a different can of worms - bots. Then Joe Sixpack's family in Denver can't buy anything online when something new comes out because bots scooped them all up in milliseconds.

Complicating matter is that he and his family was part of that apocryphal anecdote by Chapek who came only once every five years, so online is their only option

 

[Sundown]

Park exclusive items are neat, and should remain park exclusive. That doesn't mean that steps shouldn't be taken to minimize the mass-item ebay resellers.

Disney should certainly limit the purchase number per guest and ask for photo-id in association with both physical address and phone number to be scanned & retained for certain items. Any tickets linked together via Genie are considered "together".

Then, (just and idea) disincentivize resellers by eroding their profits/making it unprofitable to mass-buy. Allow say...five of each item...BUT the price doubles after the first item, second, etc. So:

1st costs $10
2nd: $20
3rd: $40
4th: $80
5th: $160

Then, if a family really, really needs to buy a few of an exclusive for kid's, etc....they are able to but have to pay more for it. You have access to the item, but that doesn't guarantee you get it for the most inexpensive amount.