Help with old Magic Band

I've looked around and can't seem to find the answer to this question... I have a set of Magic Bands from a 1-night stay in 2013. We stayed a night at Pop before a Disney cruise. So they never had tickets attached to them. The reservation was made by a TA and we got the bands at check-in. I thought I read I could use them to get Fast Passes once we were in a park for our trip in 2 weeks. I tried to link them to my secondary MDE account, but it says they are already linked to an account. So I tried linking them to my main account to see if that's where they were already linked and I got the same error message. Is there anyway to tell what these are linked to? Can I do anything with these bands or are they basically trash now? Thanks so much!

This might be the thread you are referring
http://www.disboards.com/threads/maximize-fp-get-a-second-set-see-post-227-before-posting.3245463/

Maybe you could call and see who the MB's are linked too?

They should be listed in the "Magic Bands and Cards" section of the website.

Magic bands are linked to an MDE account profile. Tickets are linked to the profile. Tickets aren't linked to the bands. If you magic band is not listed in your account, then you'll probably be able to use it for extra same-day fastpasses.

If you remember your log in info to your MDE account from your Pop stay, the bands should be linked to that account under "my magic bands and cards". When they give them to you upon check on, the bands are already linked to your account.

Being their untransferable, since they were already connected when you received them, it's not letting you connect to a new account.

So either you can log in to your old account and apply tickets to that MDE, or if you have another MDE already, you can try using them to get same day FP's

supersnoop said:

They should be listed in the "Magic Bands and Cards" section of the website.

Magic bands are linked to an MDE account profile. Tickets are linked to the profile. Tickets aren't linked to the bands. If you magic band is not listed in your account, then you'll probably be able to use it for extra same-day fastpasses.

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They don't show up under either MDE account I use. My main MDE account has the 2 sets of Magic Bands and MNSSHP ticket for this trip (split stay with one night room only and the rest a package). I understand all 3 of those are basically clones of each other. I'm guessing the old Magic Bands were never linked to an MDE account in 2013 since it was just one night at Pop and I didn't have any planning to do (and I let the cruise TA make the reservation). I figured it would be easy to just link them to my secondary account, but I'm getting the "already linked" error. Maybe it doesn't matter so long as they're NOT linked to the MDE with tickets and FP+ for this trip... I'm reading that other thread again - we also got a room key card in 2013 since the bands were new on this trip. Assuming I can find that, if I have the 3 MB and 1 card can I get the SDFP+ for 4 people?

Edit - I see the other thread has been closed. I hope I'm not violating any policies with this question.