The people getting the free tickets are those that belong to DVC. We pay dues. We have paid to be a member. It's a perk being offered that is free. The store thing has nothing to do with what they r doing. Totally diff then what is happening here. They r offering a perk to those who are members.
Plus to add. No one knows if it is flopping. That is an assumption. Dvd might have been given tickets for members and the total number of people might not have increased.
All I'm saying is that Disney has the right to offer this free as a perk cause people think everyone should get it for free. I'm not saying people should be cleared out if not members or anything. Whole point I'm saying is why can't Disney offer something as a perk. Let's take DVC out of it. They can offer it to season pass holders as a perk. They get perks too. Giving a perk to someone that belongs to something isn't wrong or bad.I get your point, but its pretty funny when DVC holds a members only event (just like this is a paid private event) the DVC folks are the first to come on these boards and demand they better clear out all the non-dvc members because they don't pay dues/membership fees which is what entitles you to access to the event. Funny that doesn't seem to hold when the tables are turned. - I should note, I am a DVC owner
Again, like the cruise cabin analogy, it is not the same thing. Yes, the person who is sitting next to you on the plane may have paid less for their ticket than you did. But you had an equal opportunity to pay exactly what they paid. All you had to do is replicate the exact set of circumstances that led them to the rate they got. There is no disparate treatment if everyone had the same opportunity to capitalize on the lower fare.
But you're not getting kicked out 3 hours early. The park closes at exactly the hour that was advertised. Dates for the Halloween and Christmas parties are already posted and it is only April. Anyone who goes to the MK on a day when they get "kicked out" at 7:00 knows well in advance that this is what the hours will be. This Extra Magic nonsense was sprung on guests with two weeks' notice. Very, very, very different. With little (none, actually) opportunity to make changes to ADRs and FPs, Disney swapped some dates of EMHs, which we all know can change a park from a "Most Recommended" to a "Not Recommended" in an instant. And it added special events at night which can have the exact same impact on park recommendations. The shifting of the morning EMHs is the bigger deal here, because it looks as if the evening event isn't going to add too many people to the MK on the day we will be there. But that is not for a lack of Disney trying.
I would concede that point if and only if the "perk" were known in advance such that someone could have made a purchase decision based on the availability of that perk. If it is a gift that is bestowed unannounced, then it isn't anything that you paid dues for. And it isn't anything that could possibly have influenced your decision to be, or not be, a DVC member. Implicit in your post is the idea that if one wants to get in free, one should join DVC. That only works if one knows in advance that being a member of DVC will confer that right upon them.
I agree. But if Disney kills it without following through on its "test" to see what the right price point will be, we all lose. It's hard to imagine this conversation:
You pay dues for maintenance of the DVC properties and you've paid to be a member of Disney's timeshare program. DVC and the parks are two different things.
The age old debate. Is Disney incompetent or indifferent. Seems like it has to be one or the other. But plenty of people here tell us that Disney is run by a bunch of geniuses who "play chess while we play checkers." I have no idea what draws them to that conclusion. Seems like there are plenty of execs at Disney who are of very average intellect and who possess very average management skills.
