Someone is Selling Restaurant Reservations....

Cosmic Commando

Well-Known Member
The one site that I saw doing this cancels the original reservation at a predetermined time, giving the new ADR holder the best chance to scoop it up. If someone is selling reservations and keeping it on one of their MDE accounts, they expose themselves to potential no-show fees.
 

Kate Alan

Well-Known Member
Looks like Disney is starting to address this:

Per Disney Dining Buddy's Facebook page:

Dear Loyal Customers,

Disney has requested that we discontinue our services as currently provided, and we have honored that request. We understand this may be disappointing to those of you who have found through us a solution to the stresses of dining planning. We share your disappointment.

We appreciate the grateful and positive comments we have received from you. Please know that we have truly enjoyed serving you.

If you have an active request for services from us, you will be receiving an email within the next week that contains information and instructions concerning refunds.
 

asianway

Well-Known Member
Looks like Disney is starting to address this:

Per Disney Dining Buddy's Facebook page:

Dear Loyal Customers,

Disney has requested that we discontinue our services as currently provided, and we have honored that request. We understand this may be disappointing to those of you who have found through us a solution to the stresses of dining planning. We share your disappointment.

We appreciate the grateful and positive comments we have received from you. Please know that we have truly enjoyed serving you.

If you have an active request for services from us, you will be receiving an email within the next week that contains information and instructions concerning refunds.
The fact these dirtbags had 75,000 nuts following them speaks to the magnitude of the problem
 

asianway

Well-Known Member
Dining Buddy wasn't selling ADRs. They were only checking availability and texting their customers so they could book. It's the other group that was making reservations under fake names and selling them. That's who needs to be stopped.
They were running scripts against the dining site and charging people to get ahead of normal humans searching for availability. Equally as bad
 

ford91exploder

Resident Curmudgeon
Just think of it as another upcharge to the WDW vacation.

Disney will start to do this for themselves... just like Cirque & Hoopdee charge more for better seats...they will charge for a prime time ressie. :mad: It is the new Disney way!

yes they will now that they have seen there is a market for it.
 

Kate Alan

Well-Known Member
Dining Buddy wasn't selling ADRs. They were only checking availability and texting their customers so they could book. It's the other group that was making reservations under fake names and selling them. That's who needs to be stopped.

Agree, they were only notifying when reservations became available - it was up to the individual to go to Disney's website directly and book. They were always explicit that they did not guarantee nor book reservations. No different than if you were stalking the site yourself to reserve - you were just paying someone else to be your eyes.

But it speaks to the larger issue of other sites outright selling reservations, holding reservations under fake accounts, etc. If Disney is already going after sites like Disney Dining Buddy to shut down operations, I imagine they already have or will soon be going after the others as well. And while I believe that Disney Dining Buddy was fairly benign, it's a slippery slope and I understand Disney just wanting to wipe them all out.
 

asianway

Well-Known Member
Agree, they were only notifying when reservations became available - it was up to the individual to go to Disney's website directly and book. They were always explicit that they did not guarantee nor book reservations. No different than if you were stalking the site yourself to reserve - you were just paying someone else to be your eyes.

But it speaks to the larger issue of other sites outright selling reservations, holding reservations under fake accounts, etc. If Disney is already going after sites like Disney Dining Buddy to shut down operations, I imagine they already have or will soon be going after the others as well. And while I believe that Disney Dining Buddy was fairly benign, it's a slippery slope and I understand Disney just wanting to wipe them all out.
They were using computer scripting to constantly search. That should be a violation of the websites tos. Throwing up those squiggly letters should have eliminated these guys from the get go
 

ford91exploder

Resident Curmudgeon
They were using computer scripting to constantly search. That should be a violation of the websites tos. Throwing up those squiggly letters should have eliminated these guys from the get go

Yes that's true but a competent IT/Cybersecurity team would be able to determine that there was a screen scraper at work and blacklist it's IP which would have shut down this operation before it even got started. That kind of stuff is not rocket science.
 

asianway

Well-Known Member
Wait. One blog reporting on other lifestyler schemes being shut down?

If anyone ever doubted @WDW1974 on his mental illness In the Disney community statements,go read the comments on their fb wall.

Attacking Disney.

Not for running restaurants half empty
Not for the dining plan and all its downstream effects
Not for not holding back tables for walk ins
Not for requiring reservations having to be made 180 days out when reservations release

But for shutting these saints down
 
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wdwmagic

Administrator
Moderator
Premium Member
Yes that's true but a competent IT/Cybersecurity team would be able to determine that there was a screen scraper at work and blacklist it's IP which would have shut down this operation before it even got started. That kind of stuff is not rocket science.
They use all kinds of tactics like proxy servers. Nothing underhand is ever done from a static IP. It makes it REALLY hard to shut down.
 


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