News Disney World is Now Limiting Purchases for New Items

[JohnD]

From AllEars

Disney World is Now Limiting Purchases for New Items

Disney World has introduced a purchase limit for guests!

allears.net

 

[SamusAranX]

Maybe too late but hopefully this prevents the resellers from coming in and buying tons of limited merchandise to resell online at higher prices

 

[JohnD]

Maybe too late but hopefully this prevents the resellers from coming in and buying tons of limited merchandise to resell online at higher prices

I think that's the hope. It used to be the limit was 10 items. Now it's 2.

 

[ryguy]

I feel this will be tough to enforce. But I get the idea.

 

[Wrangler-Rick]

Maybe too late but hopefully this prevents the resellers from coming in and buying tons of limited merchandise to resell online at higher prices

If Disney would just sell the stuff on ShopDisney, they could solve the whole resale dilemma and increase their own sales…

 

[wendysue]

What would prevent those people from just going store to store and getting the merchandise? I know it would be a hassle, but with help of family, etc. they could still take a lot of stuff.

 

[LuvtheGoof]

Good. When we were there a few months ago, we saw people grabbing 10 of an item that they were obviously going to sell them on eBay. Totally wrong to me.

 

[Ripken10]

What would prevent those people from just going store to store and getting the merchandise? I know it would be a hassle, but with help of family, etc. they could still take a lot of stuff.

There is only so much you can do, but it certainly makes it harder, and if it even deters a few people that's a win. It won't eliminate it, but should have an impact. I know a few people that like to collect items, and they have remarked how much more difficult it has gotten due to these people that resell online...at least it is if you refuse to pay the upcharge by those that do this. The number of people that do this seems to have exponentially increased in recent times.

 

[wdwmagic]

They have done this many times over the years.

Here is one for Frozen. It comes and goes.

Frozen merchandise purchases at the parks to be limited in number

Disney is limiting the number of Frozen merchandise items that you can buy

www.wdwmagic.com

 

[flutas]

There is only so much you can do, but it certainly makes it harder, and if it even deters a few people that's a win. It won't eliminate it, but should have an impact. I know a few people that like to collect items, and they have remarked how much more difficult it has gotten due to these people that resell online...at least it is if you refuse to pay the upcharge by those that do this. The number of people that do this seems to have exponentially increased in recent times.

Would be interesting to see Disney flagging APs that are bulk-buying items to sell like they did in DLR.

Disneyland is quietly revoking annual passes of guests who buy and resell souvenirs

People who use their annual passes to buy park merchandise and then resell it are targeted.

www.ocregister.com

 

[Timmay]

Seems very reasonable to me. Would be nice to see all the time.

 

[HauntedPirate]

Would be interesting to see Disney flagging APs that are bulk-buying items to sell like they did in DLR.

Disneyland is quietly revoking annual passes of guests who buy and resell souvenirs

People who use their annual passes to buy park merchandise and then resell it are targeted.

www.ocregister.com

I wouldn’t think it would be difficult to do. You have to show your AP to get the discount, modify the process to scan the card and update an attribute(s) on the back end. Anything that helps severely curtail the resellers is welcome at this point.

 

[DisneyDreamerxyz]

I work at the Emporium and will definitely do my best to enforce this. I was so sad seeing the posts this morning of all the Halloween merch getting cleared off the shelves.

 

[denyuntilcaught]

I paid my way through college working at Abercrombie & Fitch, who similarly had a significant issue with resellers. In addition to a hard limit of number of items sold (I think 10?), every so often when a cashier would swipe the card of a reseller, a screen would pop up on the POS asking the cashier to decline the sale and notify Brand Protection. The process was much more automated then manually enforcing it.

This was ten years ago. I'm floored if Disney's more modern POS systems don't have the ability to do anything remotely similar.

 

[VJ]

I paid my way through college working at Abercrombie & Fitch, who similarly had a significant issue with resellers. In addition to a hard limit of number of items sold (I think 10?), every so often when a cashier would swipe the card of a reseller, a screen would pop up on the POS asking the cashier to decline the sale and notify Brand Protection. The process was much more automated then manually enforcing it.

This was ten years ago. I'm floored if Disney's more modern POS systems don't have the ability to do anything remotely similar.

really makes you wonder if disney actually wants to stop resellers or if they just want to pretend like they're doing anything about them

 

[AEfx]

Good.

 

[Gillyanne]

I paid my way through college working at Abercrombie & Fitch, who similarly had a significant issue with resellers. In addition to a hard limit of number of items sold (I think 10?), every so often when a cashier would swipe the card of a reseller, a screen would pop up on the POS asking the cashier to decline the sale and notify Brand Protection. The process was much more automated then manually enforcing it.

This was ten years ago. I'm floored if Disney's more modern POS systems don't have the ability to do anything remotely similar.

If they ever tried to use payment method to track limits, I could see using gift cards as a work around to this; especially with Disney gift cards being available at so many different retailers. One could just load up on GCs (and even at a discount if from target, or warehouse store) and go through all those and pitch them when they use up the value. They'd have a different payment number each time.

 

[zweltar]

If only Disney had some online means of selling parks merchandise…

 

[Kirby86]

If only Disney had some online means of selling parks merchandise…

Yeah and if only it was attached to an App they want you to have while in the parks to make it easier for peopleto reach said online market place...

 

[JoeCamel]

I think that's the hope. It used to be the limit was 10 items. Now it's 2.

If Disney would just sell the stuff on ShopDisney, they could solve the whole resale dilemma and increase their own sales…

They have done this many times over the years.

Here is one for Frozen. It comes and goes.

Frozen merchandise purchases at the parks to be limited in number

Disney is limiting the number of Frozen merchandise items that you can buy

www.wdwmagic.com

Would be interesting to see Disney flagging APs that are bulk-buying items to sell like they did in DLR.

Disneyland is quietly revoking annual passes of guests who buy and resell souvenirs

People who use their annual passes to buy park merchandise and then resell it are targeted.

www.ocregister.com

Seems very reasonable to me. Would be nice to see all the time.

really makes you wonder if disney actually wants to stop resellers or if they just want to pretend like they're doing anything about them

If only Disney had some online means of selling parks merchandise…

I've posted before that dis should open offsite bulk sales windows for the resellers. They are only getting the AP discount right? By the time you do packing and shipping they have to sell it for more than Disney can so let them have at it. Resellers stay in the game just not in the parks and dis still makes their obscene markup. More merch for everyone.

OH, @Wrangler-Rick they absolutely should be selling it online for full price, the days of park exclusive merch are waning fast.