Thanks! That was what I thought. I think I will opt out of that photopass share - I agree about the value of it, but don't want to pay so much more if I don't have to. It is a DLR photopass that I found on the budget boards, but it is also in with a lot of WDW photopass people and I think that is where the mix-up is. It seems totally different at DLR than WDW.
Well, sharing in a 99 purchase is going to be less expensive than paying almost 60 all by yourself. So don't shoot yourself in the wallet by giving that share up before finding an All DLR Share first!
Not that I care if people want to save a few bucks but how can shared Photopasses not be against Disney policy?
I just find it hard to imagine that Disney ever intended for there to be shares where they didn't reap the profit from each individual family.
People who don't like shares can read the terms of the CD in a way that makes it *seem* that it's against policy.
People who don't mind shares or like participating in them read the same policy and get something different out of it.
You can't *sell* the CD or the photos from it. So the anti crowd says that you're selling the pictures and/or CD. The pro/neutral crowd says that when people "go in" on something, you're not selling anything. You're going in on a big cost, and then giving each person their part of it.
Think of it this way. If you have a large family reunion, you're going to want to all go in on a CD together, right? I'll use my family with this. When we go to WDW, we'll probably be in Orlando for around 2 weeks. We have family in Orlando and Port Orange, and although we would probably set up "camp" on-site at WDW (possibly in their campground!), we would have some time with my one cousin and her mom staying at ASMusic, some other time with day trips from the Orlando local cousins, and so on. It would be an ever-flowing trip for us. We would want ONE CD.
So we would all go in on it together, then when we got the pictures online, Laura, Christine, Amanda, and I will likely all go in and edit whatever pictures we wanted to edit, and then we would order. Since I'm the one with the most time and ease in seeing things (one cousin has congenital cataracts, and the others are busier than I am) I would be the one to order. Now me being me, I would very likely just have us all order our OWN CD from the system, which means an extra $20 each. I don't like having to get my own cases or worry about if I'm doing it right. So since you CAN order extra copies of it, I would do that.
But that original investment would be shared in. I wouldn't be selling the pix to my cousins, we all "went in" on it with each other.
So if you think about Dis'ers as a big family with a free-flowing reunion going on, you can see how it works.
And you can see how absolutely NASTY it could get, if Disney decided to take it upon themselves to decide what groups were family and which groups were not. Especially with a big Irish-plus family like mine, where you get every combo in basic caucasian looks you can get...one cousin looks like Snow White, her full sister looks different, I have tortoiseshell cat hair color and pink skin, another cousin's dad is Mexican and Mayan so she looks NOTHING like the rest of us, but her children DO. My hubby is half Korean and looks it, and our son has red hair! I would LOVE to see Disney try to figure out if we were, actually, all one family.
Now the one thing I wouldn't mind, mainly because it would simplify shares, would be to have the trips all be closer together. So it's more of a shared trip, not just a "I'll be there this week you'll be there next week" thing.
But still, no one is selling things.
OH, and when I encountered a problem in December, they KNEW I had participated in a share in September. I had used one card in Sept, and stupdily re-used it in Dec. Well of course you can't get that card ID number off of the share leader's account, right? So I had to email, explain that I had shared an account with a "friend" (and they could see we were NOT there during the same week) but had re-used it with my own account, and was there anything they could do. There was, they can add a card ID number to a second account, so they did that, and my card was put onto my account (which is how I ended up with my Sept pix on my Dec CD) and it was all good. They knew I had shared with someone not there at the same time, and they didn't even blink.
So while the anti crowd thinks they are against shares, in reality, they don't seem to care.
I joined a photopass share for December for DLR, but have been told by the group leader that we have to pre-order our CD and it will cost $99. 
But, I want to be able to edit and add borders and stuff to my pics. Can I only do that with the pre-order? 
I am going with a big group of people in Dec. There are 3 different groups in my large group. My parents who are taking my neice, us (5) and our very bestest friends (2) who are not going with their children. We will probably get a bunch of pictures all together, some with separate family groups and maybe some with just grown-ups and some with just cousins/kids. You can see the morphing! 
