Disney ticket question - never expire

[sanapp]

I am sorry if this is the wrong place to post this question, but I wasn't really sure where it would go. My Sister in Law has a few Children's tickets that never expire and she believes that there are a few days left on them and her children are no longer "Disney" children. She has offered them to me for our upcoming October trip as my DD is only 7. Is there a way I can check to see what is on them without being at Disney. Is there also any problem with trying to use these with my DD when they originally belonger to another child? I would love to save a few dollars, but not if it is going to create more problems!!! I would love your thoughts on this. Thanks

 

[Minniemama350]

Disney tickets are non-transferable. It is a BIG no-no. Her kids can use them even after they are 10 yrs old at no additional cost, but NO one else can use them. Sorry.

 

[sanapp]

I am not saying that I want to do something that we aren't suppose to, but how is that tracked? That is too bad that they can't be used as they don't plan on ever returning to Disney. She has 2 boys who are teenagers now and are just to cool for Disney now.

 

[Thumper_Man]

The first time they were used, they also scan your finger. This is so no one else can use the ticket. If the finger scan don't match the ticket, then the ticket won't work. This is how they track who used the ticket.

 

[sanapp]

It seems crazy that they would keep that information for so long on every ticket with a balance left on it. If I had to guess I would say the my nephews used the tickets about 5 years ago. I had read somewhere else that they don't actually take a finger print with the scanners. Like I said I don't want to try and do something I am not, but it is such ashame for them to go to waste.

 

[lizziepooh]

If the tickets were last used prior to the start of scanning, I don't know how they could track them.

I have some childrens tickets with plus options left from several years ago (prior to scanning) and I honestly don't know which grandchild used which tickets. Since I bought the tickets and they were used within my family, I plan to use them when the grandkids can go again even tho the "right" kid may end up using the "wrong" ticket.

 

[seashoreCM]

It seems crazy that they would keep that information for so long on every ticket with a balance left on it. .

It is just as easy to keep the fingerprint information as it is to keep count of number of days. The fingerprint information is just a number between I think one and one thousand.

Every time your finger is scanned, a number, hopefully the same number, is re-created. But it is not possible to turn the number already on file back into a fingerprint.

They also keep track of when the ticket was used. So if the ticket usage history doesn't match the trip dates you give or does not make sense with a person's age (like first used before you were born), then the ticket is considered invalid.