DisneySaint
Well-Known Member
we usually get 7-10 non expiring tickets when we go and sometimes get 2 trips out of them, but i dont understand why you couldnt sell/give away your tickets if they had a day left on them and you were going home. its not fraud to sell anything else used, like a car so what makes the difference about a ticket. and why would disney care, the days were paid for, it isnt like someone would be getting in for free. guess its fraud cause disney says so?
It's a business, people. It's not fantasyland. Why allow people to internally sell tickets when you can make them buy whole new one's?
(e.g. Allow the guest to sell a remaining day on his 7-day ticket and that day is valued at about $2. That guest will now sell that 1-day ticket for about $60 on E-Bay. OR, make tickets non-transferable and allow the new guest to buy a 1-day ticket at the gate for $70. So, instead of making nothing, Disney has now made $70 more.)
And if you don't buy that argument, think about it from a customer service standpoint: Guest buys tickets on E-Bay and goes to the parks with his family for a much-anticipated vacation only to find out the tickets are completely used up. Now Disney's Guest Relations gets the guest and what is Disney supposed to do? Tell the guy tough luck? That's exactly what they are going to say and now either (A) the guest buys new tickets and is angry the entire duration of his trip causing him to have a miserable time or (B) he aborts the entire vacation and creates terrible memories for everyone.
Tickets being non-transferable makes 100% sense and the Biometrics, unless you can come up with a better technology, is the best thing to enforce the non-transferable policy. I believe the headaches they cause are worth the business they generate. You guys need to stop looking at everything in fantasyland terms of lines and what a 'pain' it is to find out what ticket is yours. Why not just sign the back of the ticket to make sure you know that is your ticket and simply use the proper one when you get to the turnstiles? I have NEVER taken more than a few seconds to get through a turnstile; what holds it up are ignorant people who swap tickets around within their group, buy tickets off scammer booths in Orlando & on E-bay, and people who are just eternally confused about how to put their index finger on a piece of glass.
Sorry, folks, but any argument to the contrary will be hard for me to believe.
Edit - I want to add also that if you people seriously think it takes your fingerprint and your identity, that is the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard. It would be illegal for a private company to covertly take your finger print for data purposes. It's been said 100 times but I will say it again: The biometrics (not fingerprints) converts your unique fingerprint into a numerical cypher which is then associated permanently with your ticket. With that all said, Disney already knows everything about you it wants to. They have your name and/or phone number and/or address and/or number of times visited and where and/or 100 other pieces of identifying material. If you've stayed in a Disney resort, wrote a letter, made a priority seating, went into Guest Relations, telephoned anywhere in Disney from a personal number, etc. ... they know who you are. If you've ever so much as paid with a credit card, they know you've been to the property. The only way they could not know is if you've only ever used cash for every purchase, you are not staying on property, and you've never given one lick of information to anyone (such as a phone number when booking priority seating at a restaurant).