No, because you're still paying for the same number of rides, regardless of who is using them. If you have 10 family members buying one ticket book each, you're still getting X number of rides, whether one person uses all the tickets or they're divided evenly between each family member. The best current example of what you propose is the dining plan: a family of 4 on the DDP for 10 days gets 10 snacks, 10 QS, 10 TS. Johnny can use all 10 of those snacks if he wants, or each person can get 10 snacks. You're still paying for the same amount of snacks.
They offered them because back in the 70's thru part of the 90's any ticket you bought was non-expirational. They were good forever. Why wouldn't they be? You paid for them didn't you? If you bought a 5 day ticket and only used 3 of them, for whatever reason, why is alright for Disney to take my money and never give me anything in return for it unless I pay them extra. I know I may think in simple terms, but, to me that is stealing from me. They get my money and get to keep it and I get nothing.
I guess I am talking about something different. Rather than use a few days and want to keep your embedded value in the balance, I am talking about buying a 5 day pass for $140 way back when and then tucking them away for future use. If I were Disney, I'd allow you to tuck those away, but when you go to use them the first time in 2020 when a 5 day pass costs $450, I'd give you your $140 in credit but make you pay the difference to get a new 5 day pass. Just like at DLR, if you bought a 5 day pass in 1989 for $75, I wouldn't let you use that pass for 5 days now with no further payment. Right now, you could. But if I were Disney, I'd put an end to this. You should have a reasonable amount if time to use those passes at face value. But not 15 years.
I honestly doubt it hurt their bottom line. In the big picture the percentage of people buying non expiring option was so minimal that it was phased out due to lack of purchases of the non-expiring option.Now that Disney has pulled the no expiration option, (because it hurt their bottom line) how long do you think it will be before they will sell them like they do the tickets to Disneyland?Expiring in one year, I believe? What say you?
OK, but they didn't just tuck that $140.00 in a box under the bed. They made money off it, either in the terms of interest or investment. Shouldn't I get to share that as well? I understand why they are doing what they are doing, I just think that the only people that they are interested in is themselves. There was a time when Disney cared enough about their Guests, and knew that if you got them to come back because they had unused tickets you could sell them a lot more in other things because they didn't have the immediate expense of buying a ticket, they just used there old one that they had previously paid for. I doubt if ticket prices cover even a quarter of their overall expenses. It's the other high profit stuff that makes them wealthy.
Depends on what year you bought your tickets. In many years, Disney woukd have lost your $140.
A corporation interested in themselves? That's crazy talk!
). It made me wonder how many people just accepted their first "no" as fact and walked away without this feature. Listen, I love Disney, and I'm sure that non expiring tix were not killing their bottom line, but I will say that those 10 day PH waterpark non expiring tix saved me between $1154-1516 off of what I would have paid for either 1 day or 2day tickets and WP tix.....and that does NOT take into account savings on future price increases! Anyway you look at it that's a lot of money out of their pocket. I do stay in their hotels, buy their party tickets, eat their food, and buy too many Disney "memories" , but at this time they don't care...they want the guest who will come for 7-10 days and SPEND even if it's a once in a lifetime trip. They currently don't seem to care about their repeat visitors. Refurbs are not being taken care of the way they should because they can't take down an attraction for too long or it will affect a once in a lifetime trip....never mind that many features of the ride are not working properly or that things are starting to look rough around the edges. It IS a business, and that's about $, but it also used to be a business that cared about the guest and their experiences., and as a result WE became repeat visitors...over and over again, and that translated into $$$$$$! They ve lost the Disney Way - they need someone to run these parks again who cares about the WHOLE picture and what this was all about to begin with, and they will reap even BIGGER $$$. It would be a win for everyone. They ve lost their heart, but we tend to forget that when we lose our hearts watching our little ones take in the magic, and for that we will continue to fork over $$$$$$$$$.
It's not the same thing. Do you really think that Disney would be happy if a million people showed up this year with unused day passes from 1978 and got into the Magic Kingdom without paying any additional money? Do you think the accountants would be dancing a jig because Disney had the use of a million people's $12 for all these years? That won't pay this year's bills. That money was already put to use. Disney wants $100,000,000 in new money from these guests.
If your personal emergency or Disney's shutdown left your tickets partially unused, Disney has handled these situations on a case by case basis. Commonly, Disney has issued comp tickets for the unused days, as if to let you postpone the rest of your vacation to some arbitrary future date of your choice. There was a catch, the comp tickets could not be upgraded. Any extending of the postponed vacation fragment when taken would have required use of additional separately acquired tickets.
Rules may not be made or applied capriciously. If bridging was done for others both shortly before and shortly after your friend did her upgrade then Disney should recompute her transaction after the fact, even after she wrote for a refund after she returned home.
Ticket booth agents would dutifully exchange the unused 1978 or so vintage day tickets for current tickets with equal or greater entitlement to the guest for each and every attribute of the ticket. For pre-1982 (pre-Epcot, pre-pay-one-price) ticket books surrendered, Disney could stamp the front page "void" and sell the books individually in the gift shop for about $19.95 each, or sell them unadulterated in the gift shop for about $109.95 (a little more than equivalent ticket gate price) each. Or discontinue the cast membership of someone who embezzled one of the collected old tickets for personal gain via eBay sale. Post-1981 tickets would probably be exchanged for park hoppers since back then the standard tickets were valid for both Magic Kingdom and Epcot including on the same day.
