Majority of dining scalping websites shut down by Disney

[Jhondy210]

Funny about the frenzy. I just went on Disney's site and looked at the ADRs available for breakfast in 180 days every restaurant that is open for breakfast has openings, including CM, BOG and CRT. It's 3:40 pm, at my 180 almost all breakfasts for those restaurants were gone almost immediately but that was when these dining scalpers were going strong. So it appears now that they are gone suddenly the 180 days isn't as big as a deal.

Glad to see them go, I truly believe the "frenzy" was artificially created by the scalpers.

Or it is because 180 days from now doesn't have free dining and will be in April and with Spring break and Easter being in March, it could be a much slower time. I don't think one day is any indication of how "easy" it is to get reservations now.

 

[jtowntoflorida]

Is Disney dining assistant shut down also?

Why not go to their website and check?

 

[rlduvall]

Why not go to their website and check?

Appears they closed shop before Disney could ding them . . . supposedly.

 

[Eoghann]

Sticking Disney in your business name pretty much guarantees being sued regardless of what else you are doing.

 

[bpadair32]

Sticking Disney in your business name pretty much guarantees being sued regardless of what else you are doing.

Yep.

 

[Planogirl]

If I understood correctly how these worked I had no problem with them. They just did the searching for you. I can understood why a website wouldn't want all of those hits though.

 

[bpadair32]

If I understood correctly how these worked I had no problem with them. They just did the searching for you. I can understood why a website wouldn't want all of those hits though.

Some of them did that, others booked a bunch of ADRs in fake names and resold them. Others used Disney's name in their names.

 

[rteetz]

Some of them did that, others booked a bunch of ADRs in fake names and resold them. Others used Disney's name in their names.

Plenty of sites use Disney in their name in some form. The DIS stands for Disney Information Station. There are other Disney news and blog sites that use Disney in the name. Disney doesn't really go after those unless they need to.

 

[Eoghann]

Plenty of sites use Disney in their name in some form. The DIS stands for Disney Information Station. There are other Disney news and blog sites that use Disney in the name. Disney doesn't really go after those unless they need to.

There's a difference between that and actually using the name Disney in a profit making enterprise. Notice that neither this nor the main site actually use Disney in the URL. Disney may not sue every one that pops up any more (they used to sue everything and anything) but using a trademark like Disney as part of your company name is asking for trouble.

This is particularly true if you use a name like "Disney Dining Buddy" which it would be easy to argue sounds like it's an actual Disney service and is thus trading on Disney's name.

 

[rteetz]

There's a difference between that and actually using the name Disney in a profit making enterprise. Notice that neither this nor the main site actually use Disney in the URL. Disney may not sue every one that pops up any more (they used to sue everything and anything) but using a trademark like Disney as part of your company name is asking for trouble.

This is particularly true if you use a name like "Disney Dining Buddy" which it would be easy to argue sounds like it's an actual Disney service and is thus trading on Disney's name.

Exactly. Those were paid services. We don't pay thankfully to use this site.

 

[Minniesgal]

For our 25th wedding anniversary, I'd like to go to Victoria and Alberts on April 13 2016. This is 180 days from now. Through Disney's dining reservation site, it only tells me the query result is no tables available, it does not suggest what is available. I am left to search from day to day. If there was a service that would do that for me, I would use it.

Perhaps WDW needs to add a "suggest" to the results, saying your request is not possible, but here is one that is....

I guess the next move is to call 800-W-DISNEY and book an on-site stay with dinner reservations at V&A. Perhaps they can tell me what is available around that particular day.

I think V&As is closed in April next year

 

[Whatsthegoodword]

Disney never used to have a problem with reservations until about when the dining plan came to be. You used to go to the front of Epcot and see what was available for the day not online 180 days in advance....

Yes, and the way they do it today is a vast improvement. We used to hang around under Spaceship Earth while my mama went in, waited in another line, and made our dining reservations. This way, it's done and we don't have to worry about it. I'm glad that now that I'm making the reservations, I don't have to waste time doing it the old way.

Now that Disney has gotten the dining scalpers out, everything should function better now.

 

[Im_her_Mickey]

I have a quick question, and sorry new to the forums so not sure where to ask it. But, we're going in December and were -hoping- to get a lunch reservation for Be Our Guest, but the two days we'll be at MK, says no available tables. Will we be able to go to guest services that day and see if there are any available tables? Or will we be out of luck unless something shows up online?

 

[rteetz]

I have a quick question, and sorry new to the forums so not sure where to ask it. But, we're going in December and were -hoping- to get a lunch reservation for Be Our Guest, but the two days we'll be at MK, says no available tables. Will we be able to go to guest services that day and see if there are any available tables? Or will we be out of luck unless something shows up online?

Best to ask on the restaurants board but guest services isn't usually able to help in those situations. Your best bet is to keep checking for reservations everyday until your trip to see if someone cancels in the mean time.

 

[KkBb]

So now it will be easier to get reservations, with out one of these services.

 

[lockedoutlogic]

There was a middle road that existed between the Epcot video chat reservations and the semi ridiculous system now.

Priority seating used the statistics to allocate "reserved" tables while still offering flexibility and the ability to actually relax about it. And you could book it in advance if you wanted to OCD everything.

Then came the dining plan trap and everybody fell right in it...


Yeah...190 days out and little flexibility close in...and the delightful ability for them to shutoff sections of restaurants and reduce staffs- making it a no walkup scenario...and have college programmers stand outside and yell "we're completely full...electric umbrella is over there..." To the passers by...

What "magic". Somethings changed "for the better" are completely one sided.

The only "positive" I see recently is the credit guarantee...which loosened up the ghost reservations that nobody would admit too for years...funny how that happened. But the downside is that you are locked in the day before...it's not like you ever change your mind about lunch the next day and kids never what to do anything different...

Wishes, magic, dreams, wonder!!!

 

[lockedoutlogic]

Also...i never understood these scalper services for a dining reservation...

If you're that obsessed about something that you're thinking about it far out...you can navigate the online reservations to get what you want...like 99% of the time.

I tend to find people who say "I'm too busy for that" to be lying to themselves about how busy they are...more or less.

 

[beer dave]

Exactly. Those were paid services. We don't pay thankfully to use this site.

Wait-- then who has been cashing the checks I have been sending every month for years?---- they go to some PO box in Joisey......

 

[missbrooke06]

I'm just disappointed by how terrible MDE still is. I was assured multiple times on these boards that the sniper sites were causing all the issues.

 

[lockedoutlogic]

Wait-- then who has been cashing the checks I have been sending every month for years?---- they go to some PO box in Joisey......

...crap...how long do I have until the FBI shows up?