I sent an email too. So far have only received the automated response and will be surprised if I get anything else.
One thing we are missing here is that the people who make these decisions are making millions of dollars a year already, and if they meet financial goals they will be paid millions MORE. If they can pocket an extra few million by charging for parking they are going to do it.
They simply do not care about those of us who have to save up for 2 years to take the grandkids to WDW.
I fully expect my letter to have all the impact of a porpoise passing gas in a category 5 hurricane, but at least I sent it.
I am quoting you because I agree with you. Looking at an email is painless; it takes mere seconds. It can be deleted with a single, effortless click. It can be forwarded to a low-ranking administrative assistant in less than two shakes of a lamb's tail. The effect is well illustrated by your crass dolphin hurricane analogy, which I chuckled at.
If you want to get attention and cause some chaos (without doing anything illegal, which is the way I would suggest), then you need to get old school! I hereby call all angered mobs of WDW fans to channel their rage into a powerful, ancient form of communicating one's displeasure.
A letter writing campaign!!! Before you all start throwing a tantrum and berating me for suggesting we engage in a tactile form of communication that involves minor manual labor, please hear me out. There were tens of thousands of angered WDW patrons who wrote negative reviews in social media, a very admirable and powerful tool. However, with a click of a button Disney execs can elect to turn off those review options.
Consider these points:
1) There is no stopping the mail. It will be delivered.
2) You can write as many letters as you want addressed to whomever you want in the company.
3) Your children can write in crayon about how mad they are that they are so greedy and mean and include pictures of mickey mouse crying.
4) Thousands of letters every day will cost Disney time and money to process. It's way harder for a tech savvy company to prepare their low-wage workers to process and respond to thousands of hard-copy correspondence. (Even if they don't it will mean more work for their mail-room and shredder. LOL)
5) Just imagine how much mail that really would be and how much harder it is to ignore rooms full of letters than it is "some number" on a social media site.
Come up with something meaningful in the amount of money you spend on letters. For instance, type one letter on your computer. Print it 26 times and include the following statement in your letter. "I have sent you 26 letters voicing my disapproval of your gaudy, money-grabbing parking fee. It cost me less than 1 day of parking at your Value Resorts, which I no longer plan on staying at." ....Something like that.
Have fun with it! Split up your letter in several different envelops with the page numbers and "continued" at the bottom. Mail them on different days to ensure they do not get there at the same time. Then they have to try to find all of your letters if they want to give you a follow up call. If they do call, be sure to ask if they have on hand your entire (number) page letter. Ask them questions that they would only know if they read it all.
Who wants to do this? If nothing else it would be enjoyable to imagine the effects as you send off your stack of letters and join it to the ocean of others from around the country/world.
I also have several money saving tips if you'd like any of those!
