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- Apr 24, 2008
Except they are very specifically disallowing this.
It isn't a technological issue though. Activating an old ID should be just as easy as activating a new one. There must be a different reason.
Actually, i can think of a couple very simple technological reasons.... although they are somewhat self imposed tech reasons. (I'm repeating some of what I said above).
1. To save costs Disney designed the mug RFID system with a much smaller number of potential RFID identifiers.... like maybe only 512k potential IDs. With a 14 day max time to Live on a mug, the odds of having 2 mugs with the same ID active at the same time is small, with the worst case a minimal chance of guests noticing if 2 mugs with the same ID get activated at the same time [an extra day or 2 of soda.... or the fountain not working the first time you try and refill it but then shortly thereafter, which may not even be an issue if they keep the 'refill lockout' local and not resort wide....]. If they however started having a bunch of old 'expired' mugs brought back into the system the chances of multiple mugs with the same ID number start increasing dramatically.
2. If the POS systems used by the cashiers when you purchase a mug do not have the ability to insert a new RFID into the database, but can only update an existing ID's status.... with all RFID's added to the database/inventory behind the scenes with a process in place to delete old ID's from the database automatically to maintain system performance.