Really, what loophole? I can assure you that if a piece of media was not used to enter the park it will not work more than once, maybe twice for redeeming a Fastpass. It may not immediately notify you that the media and the account it is linked to is locked, but it will happen, and you may not have your account unlocked depending on the details on the account and the violations.
Officially you should use your fastpass during the one hour window you are given. The system will automatically allow you in up to 15 minutes after your window. Anything beyond this you are late and will turn blue.
I understand that. There are other workarounds using the change function.
Which I understand as well. The issue is for this to work you must have multiple valid admissions linked to the same account, and this workaround is also traceable. Using any piece of RFID media was far simpler and cheaper, the cost to setup the usage of a party change system requires hundreds of dollars of admission that will eventually expire and can never be used in the meantime, and will be revoked when the account is noticed to be doing this.
I think lots of people using this tactic already have tickets in their account that don't expire. No reports yet of Disney revoking, locking or anything else.
I have never been let in early, but we have been 30 minutes late and still got to use the FP
I've never been early (for anything in my life in fact) but I have been let in late. It depends on the CM. If the reason is my own fault, I accept it and skip the pass, but for example the time when trying to get to Magic Kingdom it took me nearly an hour from parking to entering the park when it should take 20 minutes I explained it to the CM and that I should have been fine if things weren't lagging behind and he understood and let me in. If I screw up though, I just let it go.
It's not a case of the tech not being smart enough it's a matter of it working as intended. Cast members are not allowed to play in the park without entering through the main entrance first even if visiting after their shifts. Obviously this rule is often broken but it is the rule.
They are very transparent with this particular business policy and procedure and make it quite clear to cast members. If cast members violate this the ban hammer (and ultimately worse) is exactly their intention.
It's purposeful. They want to catch those that are doing this and put a stop to it but they don't want to create guest situations in the park. They are not interested in having every front line cast member have to explain to angry guests why they cheated the system and can't use their fastpasses
I'm not buying it. They are able to do it with MaxPass in DLR and did it previously with legacy FP. I think they just can't accomplish it with their tech issues.
There's a difference between telling someone they don't have a fastpass or are early or late and accusing someone of cheating the system.
