Last fall when we were at Animal Kingdom I traded in our unused 8 day MYWnon-exp waterpark and fun tyvek tickets for RFID tickets. These tickets are still unused. I had gotten these tickets from
UT to upgrade for our annual passes this year. I'm guessing I will get credit for the value of the ticket before the price increase this year. I understand that this trade did increase the value of the ticket last fall, however, I may have lost out on some of my bridging options. Any thoughts?
I never heard or read that changing ticket media to RFID had any effect on the actual ticket. Each ticket has a history, and Disney can see, by scanning the bar code, that they were bought from a ticket reseller, they can see the date Disney originally sold the ticket
wholesale to that reseller and they can see the
wholesale price. They wouldn't know what date you bought the ticket at retail or the price you paid, as that is the business of the reseller.
As with any third party Disney ticket,
use the ticket at least once to enter a theme park. This will price-bridge the ticket to today's current gate price when doing a ticket upgrade. Thus, you keep your discount and pay only for the upgrade, at current gate price. If you upgrade before using the ticket, its worth would be the wholesale price, since that's the only price Disney knows. You could stand to lose $$.
From your info, your tickets are 8 day MYW non-expiring waterpark fun & more. Current gate value of that ticket is --
8 Day Adult Base $334, plus WPF&M option $60, plus no expire $270 = $
664. (plus 6.5 tax)
Current price, Adult Regular AP $
634. (plus 6.5 tax)
Your original ticket is worth more than the regular AP. Disney policy is to
not refund the difference in these situations.
Once you use your original ticket to enter a theme park, there is a 14-day window for doing upgrades, after which no upgrades are allowed (even for non-expiring tickets).
Here's allears.net's ticket history.
http://allears.net/tix/tixpix10.htm
Scroll down to 2014. There are 2 numbers for each ticket, one shows the pre-Feb 23, 2014 price, the higher number is the post-Feb 23, 2014 price. You will use the post-Feb 23rd numbers. You have to add the tax amount (6.5% or x1.065). At the top of the page are links to prices going back in time for decades.