Goofy Registration at 60%

[FFigawi]

It was at 50% last week, so it looks like a lot of people signed up to get in by the 24th before the registration fees went up. Or maybe it's a bunch of men registering for any Disney race but Tinkerbell.

Anyway, it seems like it's filling faster this year than last year, so don't wait too long to decide if you're still wavering.

 

[gotrojansgo]

Ughhhhh I was going to wait until the DL half to see if they had a deal for signing up then...maybe waiting until September isn't the best idea. Does anyone know when the Goofy filled up last year?

 

[AUdisneyDad]

If I remember correctly it was around November.

 

[verticalchaos]

Ughhhhh I was going to wait until the DL half to see if they had a deal for signing up then...maybe waiting until September isn't the best idea. Does anyone know when the Goofy filled up last year?

Don't know about the speed of fill-up, but the only "deal" they had for runDisney events at January Marathon Weekend was that you filled out the paperwork and they'd enter it for you, thus saving you the active.com fee. (But in most cases I've heard from causing headaches as things were entered incorrectly by the people doing the entering - so you had to be on the phone or email with them to make sure you were registered. Frankly I'd rather pay the fee and know I'm entering my information correctly.)

 

[Sarah_Rose]

(But in most cases I've heard from causing headaches as things were entered incorrectly by the people doing the entering - so you had to be on the phone or email with them to make sure you were registered. Frankly I'd rather pay the fee and know I'm entering my information correctly.)

This is totally unrelated to the original post, but I'm going to rant, anyway. I know active.com (and other similar systems) exists to make a profit, but it seems so backwards that Disney will pay a minion to enter your info into the system for free, and charge people to enter their own info into the same system. I know Disney only does no-fee paper entries for special promotions, but so many races still work this way. And I'd guess that 90% of 'minion errors' happen because the person doing the entering can't read the writing on the form. I volunteered for a charity organizing one of the largest 5K's in the USA and the number of times when I was entering registrations and just decided, 'your name is this gibberish that I can't read on the form and you can sort it out on race day..." The next year, the charity administered their own system instead of using a 3rd party and started offering free online registration, but charging a $5 processing fee for mail-in registrations... and the number of registration problems dropped to nearly zero.

Ok, unrelated rant over.

 

[verticalchaos]

This is totally unrelated to the original post, but I'm going to rant, anyway. I know active.com (and other similar systems) exists to make a profit, but it seems so backwards that Disney will pay a minion to enter your info into the system for free, and charge people to enter their own info into the same system. I know Disney only does no-fee paper entries for special promotions, but so many races still work this way. And I'd guess that 90% of 'minion errors' happen because the person doing the entering can't read the writing on the form. I volunteered for a charity organizing one of the largest 5K's in the USA and the number of times when I was entering registrations and just decided, 'your name is this gibberish that I can't read on the form and you can sort it out on race day..." The next year, the charity administered their own system instead of using a 3rd party and started offering free online registration, but charging a $5 processing fee for mail-in registrations... and the number of registration problems dropped to nearly zero.

Ok, unrelated rant over.

Yep. However, when my info was in schoolteacher-neat block letters... Even the guy I talked with to figure out what was going on since I'd been charged but gotten no email verification couldn't see how they got whatever they'd put in for my email address from my email address.

And now back to the subject at hand... LOL.

 

[Sarah_Rose]

Yep. However, when my info was in schoolteacher-neat block letters... Even the guy I talked with to figure out what was going on since I'd been charged but gotten no email verification couldn't see how they got whatever they'd put in for my email address from my email address.

And now back to the subject at hand... LOL.

Yup... there's always the 10% minion error. I'll admit that I never considered how my handwriting could really screw with someone's day until I did that job. I used to just scribble it out, and now I'm really carefully about printing neatly in all block letters. If there's going to be a screw-up, it's not going to be my fault!

 

[verticalchaos]

Yup... there's always the 10% minion error. I'll admit that I never considered how my handwriting could really screw with someone's day until I did that job. I used to just scribble it out, and now I'm really carefully about printing neatly in all block letters. If there's going to be a screw-up, it's not going to be my fault!

Exactly! I used to work room reservations in a convention hotel, and trying to decipher some of the res cards that came in was ridiculous. My favorite, however, should have been amazingly easy to read. The guy had typed it himself. The only problem was his fingers were all about 1 key off, so what he'd typed made no sense. When I called and spoke with I presume the administrative assistant, I explained who I was and why I was calling and did she know who might be the person attending the conference. She laughed and said "Oh yes. I'm not surprised that happened. He waited until the last minute, and then I was out on jury duty so by the time he realized it was due he had to complete it himself." Then she gave me the correct information and sure enough, his fingers were all one extra place to the right. *headdesk*