How do you pre-order Photopass CD for $99?

[northie]

express shipping is also free through that link. And i also got a shipping notice.... ?? We arent going until October, lol. Please let me know if I need to call

OP, Thank you very much for posting this information!

I think I figured it out...I looked in "My Account" link at the top of the page and it said something like "Code sent by email"...I think that's what they actually meant by shipped!

We go in September, and I think I will order another before we go in November Wish I could combine the two into one CD!

 

[northie]

This is going to be a dumb question, but, here it goes...do you do photopass to avoid lugging around a camera? Sounds like a great idea, and to be able to eliminate another bag would be great!!

Nope I don't. I still lug my camera. The PhotoPass photos are a way of getting photos of all members of your party together. And they are in some of the best photo spots in the parks. They also get some great night shots.

I like to get photos of the attractions, flowers, topiaries, etc...probably more than I like photos with me in 'em!

 

[brittsmum1998]

I just looked at the link and it says "photos from multiple accounts cannot be combined on one cd" does this mean you CAN'T share? We were going to split it w/ another family, it doesn't sound like we can now.

 

[suttlesboys]

How much does the CD normally cost? Just curious about how much of a savings it is by preordering! Thanks

 

[Tnkrbelle565]

CD usually costs $130 plus shipping so it's a significant savings. Also, as long as you put all of the cards (if you are sharing) on one acct. you should be able to get them on one cd. Computer doesn't have a way of knowing if all the pictures are you or not...i don't think...if they did, that would be creepy!

 

[wbh1964]

Two years ago we went to disney and bought the cd as we were leaving the last park for $99. It had about 100 photos on it.

We leave 1 week from today for disney and am a little confused about the pre-order...

is it too late to preorder for $99 and if so then is it $120 at the parks?

if we can pre-order, do we get the cd as we leave or do we have to wait for them to mail it to us...we like to use our laptop on the drive home and look at the pics.

Thanks!!!!!

 

[LitlbitWraps]

I just looked at the link and it says "photos from multiple accounts cannot be combined on one cd" does this mean you CAN'T share? We were going to split it w/ another family, it doesn't sound like we can now.

That just means you cannot set up two accounts and then have them send on one CD.
If you want to share, I would suggest one family sets up the acct, both imput card #'s in the one account, then order the cd from home after editing.

 

[Crystal824]

If you have several families or adults going, you can burn the CD. We purchased it before our trip in March. We received the CD and burned a copy for my mom and dad and another for my sister. There was no problem.

You receive a copyright release on the CD as well should there be any questions if you print at a store.

It is really cool. You can add all kinds of borders and do edits on the pics prior to using the code you receive after the pre-purchase to order the CD. There is no limit to the number of pictures. We had over 500. All of them didn't fit on one CD so they sent 2 CDs. We were very happy with the purchase.

The only problem is when doing the edits and adding borders once you get over about 300 pictures, the website is very slow.

 

[boomar]

We went to WDW in 06', before our trip we read up on several things about disney thru the UG, they had info on the photopass, we actually didn't think we would use it, until our 2nd day at WDW a very informative CM told us about the feature. Granite misssing 1 full day of not using the photopass(our 1st day at WDW) we ended up with 200 photos and yes it is very worth it. We took advantage of every CM that we could find, most were finding us, all were EXTREMELY HELPFUL AND EAGER TO DO THEIR JOB, and might I say all of our photos turned out beautiful, and we all were in the shot, there wasnt someone missing form the photo to take the picture. We did purchase it at the park on the last day of our stay and paid $99.99 for it, but we had to have it processed there at the park, the only thing is, we did not get all the fancy features that you can do on your own if you pre purchase it for $99, like adding borders to make your own christmas cards etc. the only way we could do this in 06 is if we purchased the christams cards thru the website, but we didnt want to pay that much for them. Anyway, we are going to prepurchase in Sept for our December trip. We do plan to take our camera for pics that the PP CMs arent there for like on an actual ride, or in restaraunts. NOW MY QUESTION FOR THE PROS IS: Would rides like the TOT or any other ones that take the photo at the end of the ride be included with the photopass if you give them the id#, I think I read something about this on another thread but cant find it...

 

[Tnkrbelle565]

NOW MY QUESTION FOR THE PROS IS: Would rides like the TOT or any other ones that take the photo at the end of the ride be included with the photopass if you give them the id#, I think I read something about this on another thread but cant find it...

IF you take a ride picture and BUY a copy, you can add the ID number of the copy they give you to your CD and you'll be able to make additional copies of the same photo. But you need to spend the $13 (or whatever) to buy it first. The only exception to this is Test Track. When you picture comes up on the screen at Test Track, you can scan your photopass card and your pictures will be included on the cd w/o you have to buy a copy at Disney.

 

[Leigha]

I know you can get restaurant pictures added by going to the photopass place and telling them where you were and when you were there but does it work for rides is the question. Has anyone ever tried??

 

[eddie1964]

Here is the link

http://www.disneyphotopass.com/previsitcdplan.aspx?CMP=EMC-PASOWphs

you have to pay the $99 upfront and will get emailed a code to use when ordering after your trip. You also get free shipping. If you don't end up using photopass, you get refunded.

Link still works. Thank you.

 

[zaneymax]

I ordered my Disney Photopass Cd that I had preordered and I was charged a $6.00 shipping charge. I thought you got free shipping when you pre-ordered? What do I do to get my shipping refunded? Uuuuggghhh! Another thing to take care of! Thanks Disboard friends for your help!

Gina

 

[disneyfan2]

I know you can get restaurant pictures added by going to the photopass place and telling them where you were and when you were there but does it work for rides is the question. Has anyone ever tried??

only if you buy the photos. There is a code listed on the back of it, and then use that. i did that with some of our photo pkg at Akershus, and they looked up the # and added them.

 

[WillCAD]

I ordered my Disney Photopass Cd that I had preordered and I was charged a $6.00 shipping charge. I thought you got free shipping when you pre-ordered? What do I do to get my shipping refunded? Uuuuggghhh! Another thing to take care of! Thanks Disboard friends for your help!

Gina

Shipping is no longer free with a pre-ordered PhotoPass CD. You won't be able to get the charge refunded.

For those unfamiliar with how pre-purchasing a PhotoPass CD works, here are the details:

Pre-purchasing the PhotoCD costs 20% less than purchasing it after the fact (current costs as of July 2009 are $99 for pre-purchase, $149.95 for later purchase). Pre-purchasing is accomplished like this:

1. If you don't already have a PhotoPass account, go to the PhotoPass web site and open one. There is no charge for opening an account.
2. About a week before your trip, go to the DisneyPhotoPass CD Pre-Purchase page and follow the instructions to pre-purchase your CD. The $100 fee will be charged to your credit card at that time, and you will then get a series of 3 emails, usually within a few minutes:
   • Receipt for the monetary transaction
   • Promotion code and instructions for finalizing the order later
   • Notice that your order has "shipped" (automatically generated by any CD order, just ignore it)
3. KEEP ALL OF THESE EMAILS! Also make note of the promotion code somewhere else - you will need it when you finalize the order. NOTE: The promotion code is only good for 60 days, so don't pre-purchase until about a week before your trip, or the code might expire before you finalize your order.
4. If these emails do not arrive within a few hours:
   • Check to be sure that you entered the correct email address when you ordered
   • Check your spam quarantine to be sure the emails are not in there
   • Call PhotoPass customer support at 407-560-6068 and explain that you pre-ordered but never got your emails
5. Go to Walt Disney World or Disneyland and get PhotoPass pics taken as usual.
6. Come home and enter your PhotoPass cards into your PhotoPass account.
7. Do any modifications you want to your pics - add borders and signatures, crop, etc.
8. Finalize your order:
   • Open your account on the PhotoPass web site
   • Click on the Photo Products tab
   • Click Disney's PhotoCD
   • Follow the onscreen instructions to order a CD
   • In the Promotion Code box, enter the code that you got in the emails from Step 2-B above
   • The CD will ring up with a balance of $0.00 (since you already paid for it), and it will ship at that time
9. Your CD will arrive in about a week

A PhotoPass account can contain as many PhotoPass cards as you want, so don't be shy about letting everybody in the group have their own cards.

However, a PhotoPass card can only be entered into ONE account - EVER.

And a PhotoPass CD can only include the pics from ONE account. If you have a large group with multiple PhotoPass cards, and you want all pics from your group to be on the CD, you MUST enter all of your group's cards into the same PhotoPass account.

If Aunt Marge opens her own account and enters her PhotoPass card into that account, then her pics can NOT be included on your PhotoPass CD.

To avoid this catastrophe, follow this procedure:

1. Open a PhotoPass account for the group before your trip.
2. Share the login name and password with the entire group.
3. Instruct all members of the group in big, bold, red letters:
Do not open your own account! Enter your PhotoPass cards ONLY into the group account! Any cards entered into another account WILL NOT be on the CD!
4. Instruct all members of the group to write down or take a digital pic of their PhotoPass card numbers, in case they lose the card. They can get another card if they lose one, but without the number of the lost card, they will not be able to claim the pics that are associated with it.

Special tip:
Before you go on vacation, print some small return-address labels with your email address, cell number, and name. Stick one of these labels on each of your group's PhotoPass cards as you get them, and you have at least some chance of getting a lost card returned to you (it's also a good idea to do this with your digital camera memory cards).

 

[clanmcculloch]

for those who have purchased the CD in the past, how many pictures will there be on averge? How much are the pictures if Disney prints them for you?Can you order various size prints?

That really depends on you. You can have as few as 5 or 6 (most photographers take at least this many when you stop so you'll get this many just from the one stop to get the card) up to as many as you can get taken. There is no limit to the number of pictures that you can get. They can only fit a fixed number of pictures per CD but what you're paying for is an unlimited number of pictures so if they have to send a second (or third or fourth etc) CD then you'll still pay the same price. You're only limited by the number of times you want to stop for pictures (my family gets fed up with me making them stop so I've got a bunch with kids scowling or rolling their eyes).

express shipping is also free through that link.

The free shipping that is showing is for the shipping of the code via email. When you order the CD and use the prepurchase code at checkout, you'll then have to pay for the shipping.

 

[sumlthomp]

We are staying offsite. I was told by Disney Photopass Information that I cannot purchase the cd for $99 since I'm not staying on property. Is this true? How would they know whether I stayed onsite or offsite?

 

[WillCAD]

We are staying offsite. I was told by Disney Photopass Information that I cannot purchase the cd for $99 since I'm not staying on property. Is this true? How would they know whether I stayed onsite or offsite?

No, that's not true. The pre-purchase plan has no such requirement, and when you fill out the online pre-purchase form, it doesn't even ask you where you are staying, it just adds the CD to your account's shopping cart.

 

[sumlthomp]

No, that's not true. The pre-purchase plan has no such requirement, and when you fill out the online pre-purchase form, it doesn't even ask you where you are staying, it just adds the CD to your account's shopping cart.

Thank you!

 

[Mom2Ben02]

oh - a photopass swap is an awesome idea!! Off to investigate - thank you!!