PhotoPass pre-registration

[awdsmama]

I don't want to mess anything up by doing it out of order.

In my travel package I received a green-n-white PhotoPass card. It says I can sign up online and "save big" on photos and more if I register before my trip.

Any "con's" of doing this before my trip?

 

[skiingfast]

Unless it tell you online there is a great deal then it may be worth it. Though I doubt there is for anything you usually want. Usually the deals are for coffee cups and mouse pads.

Surely it won't hurt to set up an account ahead of time if you don't already have one.

The one deal, that may still be going on, haven't seen any confirmation on this in a while. At DLR you purchase the PP Gallery CD, that has stock photos of the park. You get one at the park with a voucher in it to order at home the PP CD, the one with the picture taken of you in the parks, for the PP CD price. The perk is that for one price, and paying while in the park, you get the PP Gallery CD for free.

 

[3Minnies1Mickey]

If you register your card before you use it, your 30 time frame to edit and order pics begins from the minute you take your first picture. Otherwise you have 30 days from when you take your first pic to register the card and 30 days from registration to edit and order pics, CDs, etc.

 

[RobertLC]

The price of PhotoPass is increasing on March 21 to $169.

If you pre-order before your trip using the preorder link, you can get it for $99.

 

[3Minnies1Mickey]

The price of PhotoPass is increasing on March 21 to $169.

If you pre-order before your trip using the preorder link, you can get it for $99.

This is for WDW. Disneyland's is only $59 (I don't know if its increasing too though) and you can't preorder it.

 

[ktlm]

If you register your card before you use it, your 30 time frame to edit and order pics begins from the minute you take your first picture. Otherwise you have 30 days from when you take your first pic to register the card and 30 days from registration to edit and order pics, CDs, etc.

Actually, that is a common misconception that everyone on the disboards seems to have. If you register before you use it, your 30 day time frame to edit and order pics begins from the first time you log in after you take your first pic, not the day the picture is taken. So, if you don't log into your account until you get home and are ready to start making edits, then you are fine. You have 30 days from when you take your first pic to log in and then start your 30 day edit time running. I know this for a fact as I have done the pre-registered card at DL and at WDW and I am one that is always bumping up against the edit deadline so I need that full 30 days once I get home. It actually says this in the tiny fine print on the back of the card they give you to pre-register.

I would highly recommend pre-registering. It means that your pics go directly into your account when they are taken. If you lose your card, you won't lose your pictures. Last summer at DL that pre-registered card saved my behind. I always take a photo of the number on my photopass card in case I lose the card. For some reason, last summer's DL trip was the one time I forgot to do that. Sure enough, we are standing outside Ariel's Grotto waiting for it to be time to check in for our reservation as we were too early to check in, and I drop my photopass card. We had just taken a couple of pictures with Sailor Mickey and I was holding the card and just getting ready to slide it back in the side pocket of my purse. There is a little grate out there on the ground with tiny slits that I was standing next to, just about impossible to drop anything down and theoretically if you drop a photopass card and it lands flat it shouldn't go down the grate. Of all the bad luck, my card somehow goes down perfectly on its thin edge and goes right down that grate never to be seen again. I don't think I could do it again if I had tried. So, the only time I ever lost a photopass card, was the one time I forgot to get a photo of the number on the back. If I had not pre-registered the card, I would have lost the pictures on it. When we got home from our trip and I logged in, all of our pictures were right there in my account and I breathed a big sigh of relief!

 

[3Minnies1Mickey]

Actually, that is a common misconception that everyone on the disboards seems to have. If you register before you use it, your 30 day time frame to edit and order pics begins from the first time you log in after you take your first pic, not the day the picture is taken. So, if you don't log into your account until you get home and are ready to start making edits, then you are fine. You have 30 days from when you take your first pic to log in and then start your 30 day edit time running. I know this for a fact as I have done the pre-registered card at DL and at WDW and I am one that is always bumping up against the edit deadline so I need that full 30 days once I get home. It actually says this in the tiny fine print on the back of the card they give you to pre-register.

I would highly recommend pre-registering. It means that your pics go directly into your account when they are taken. If you lose your card, you won't lose your pictures. Last summer at DL that pre-registered card saved my behind. I always take a photo of the number on my photopass card in case I lose the card. For some reason, last summer's DL trip was the one time I forgot to do that. Sure enough, we are standing outside Ariel's Grotto waiting for it to be time to check in for our reservation as we were too early to check in, and I drop my photopass card. We had just taken a couple of pictures with Sailor Mickey and I was holding the card and just getting ready to slide it back in the side pocket of my purse. There is a little grate out there on the ground with tiny slits that I was standing next to, just about impossible to drop anything down and theoretically if you drop a photopass card and it lands flat it shouldn't go down the grate. Of all the bad luck, my card somehow goes down perfectly on its thin edge and goes right down that grate never to be seen again. I don't think I could do it again if I had tried. So, the only time I ever lost a photopass card, was the one time I forgot to get a photo of the number on the back. If I had not pre-registered the card, I would have lost the pictures on it. When we got home from our trip and I logged in, all of our pictures were right there in my account and I breathed a big sigh of relief!

I know that what I posted was true on an already registered/used card. I'm sorry for the confusion if its different rules if you register an unused card.

 

[dbbydk]

This is for WDW. Disneyland's is only $59 (I don't know if its increasing too though) and you can't preorder it.

Is this still true? I know in 2009 and 2010 when I ordered the CD it was $60, and now on the Photopass website it says $149. Then I read on allears.net that if you only have pictures from the California parks on your PP card it was $59, but the post must be old, because the WDW PP cd price was listed at $124.95. So, is it still true that the DL/DCA cd is still $60?

Thanks.

Debby

 

[todzwife]

I just bought ours from our trip last week and it had 80 pictures on it (including the stock photos of the characters) for $59.95+$4.95 shipping.

 

[3Minnies1Mickey]

Is this still true? I know in 2009 and 2010 when I ordered the CD it was $60, and now on the Photopass website it says $149. Then I read on allears.net that if you only have pictures from the California parks on your PP card it was $59, but the post must be old, because the WDW PP cd price was listed at $124.95. So, is it still true that the DL/DCA cd is still $60?

Thanks.

Debby

The website defaults to WDW pricing until you upload DLR photos.

 

[dbbydk]

I just bought ours from our trip last week and it had 80 pictures on it (including the stock photos of the characters) for $59.95+$4.95 shipping.

The website defaults to WDW pricing until you upload DLR photos.

Thank you for the reassurances and confirmations.

 

[ktlm]

I know that what I posted was true on an already registered/used card. I'm sorry for the confusion if its different rules if you register an unused card.

Yep that's true, if you had used the card and had a picture on it when you registered it, then the 30 days starts running from the date you put it into the account. I don't know what happens if you pick up a regular card from a photographer in the park without any photos on it and register it, I'm guessing that might happen there too, and I probably wouldn't try that either. The ones they send you in the mail with your packet to pre-register definitely don't start your time running until you first log in after a picture is taken though.