* Pin Code "Strategy"?

[DisneyaHolic23]

I am sure this has been asked before, but I did a search and didn't find "answers" to all of my questions. I do recognize that this is all speculation, but thought I would put it out there again.

So, here are my questions FOR THOSE THAT HAVE received Pin Codes:

1. How often do you go to Disney? (I go at least 1-3 times a year, so worry that Disney has no reason to send me a pin...)

2. Do you use My Disney Experience?

3. How did you receive your pin code (mail, email, from calling Disney)?

4. Can you speculate about what you did to get a pin code?

5. When you do go to Disney, what do you typically purchase when not using a pin code (I mean, package, room only, with dining)?

6. Are any of you annual passholders?

Thanks for any insight! I have a trip coming up in November, and I call almost daily for a pin code. I worry that I already have the trip scheduled WITH dining, so Disney wouldn't consider giving me a code. Currently, I have all my hopes pinned on August 1 for a general public code - just praying they aren't all "used up" for my particular dates/resort!!

 

[Richfield]

1. Once, didn't stay on-site
2. Yes
3. Email
4. At a guess, from sending an on-ride photo from one of those kiosks that ask for your email address. Or from having a Disney.com account. Although that one doesn't explain how they knew I visited WDW.
5. & 6. n/a

Honestly, I think it's entirely random.

 

[aubriee]

I agree that it's totally random. As an annual passholder I go to WDW several times a year and have done all the things people have suggested to get a PIN (registered on all the Disney sites, order the planning DVD and maps, call to see if I have a pin in my account, call to make sure they have my email and physical address correct in their system, act like I'm planning a trip on the website and save my choices, do all the surveys, etc). Yet I have never received PIN.

On the other hand, my elderly mom, who doesn't even have an email address and has had absolutely no contact with Disney, other than being a guest in my room, received one several years ago. She has never even spoken with Disney and the only thing they could possibly have on her is her name as a guest in my room. I've done every thing I can possibly think of to get a PIN and yet she, who had had absolutely no contact with them gets a PIN code?

 

[scard192]

We go every 4-5 years and buy a package.I have gotten almost very PIN code I have seen mentioned here over the last 2 years except the Fall FD one which my sister got and we were able to apply to both reservations.

I agree with it's totally random. My sister does have a disney.com account, she shops the store on line.

My brother in law got the FD Pin in the mail and he does not have any account with Disney but he does have one with ESPN.

Most of the PIN codes I have received over the years have been by e-mail. The FD Pin we are using this fall was under my sister's name we only found out about it by calling in early May when I saw all the posts here that PINs had gone out.

 

[HeyIt'sMe]

We've been to WDW 10 times since 2000 and we've only gotten a PIN once (RO 40% off).

In Aug 2009 I made a package reservation for Oct 2010 on the Disney website and paid the $200 deposit. A few months later DH & I were talking and decided we weren't doing Disney in 2010 so I called to cancel the reservation. Lo and behold, a couple of weeks later I got the PIN in my e-mail. We ended up taking a trip using the PIN - we couldn't pass it up!

Since I thought maybe I had figured out part of the 'secret of the PIN' I did the same thing in 2011 to test things.....made a reservation, paid the deposit, and then cancelled. Nope. No PIN.

 

[DisneyaHolic23]

While it sounds random, it also SOUNDS like Disney is targeting folks that aren't frequent Disney travelers. I worry that they don't feel like they have any reason to send me a pin.

 

[rachael95]

1. We used to go every year or two, haven't been in several years.
2. No
3. Email.
4. Here's the funny thing - I did not receive the PIN at the personal email address that I'm registered with on Disney's web site. I got the PIN at my work email address. I can only assume that I used that email years ago on one of our trips. I can tell you I've not given that address to Disney in YEARS though and I got a PIN the last couple weeks for November of this year. (I actually thought it was junk mail until I looked closer).
5. Room only and usually rack rate during off season time
6. Not an annual pass holder.

 

[rt2dz]

I am sure this has been asked before, but I did a search and didn't find "answers" to all of my questions. I do recognize that this is all speculation, but thought I would put it out there again.

So, here are my questions FOR THOSE THAT HAVE received Pin Codes:

1. How often do you go to Disney? (I go at least 1-3 times a year, so worry that Disney has no reason to send me a pin...)

2. Do you use My Disney Experience?

3. How did you receive your pin code (mail, email, from calling Disney)?

4. Can you speculate about what you did to get a pin code?

5. When you do go to Disney, what do you typically purchase when not using a pin code (I mean, package, room only, with dining)?

6. Are any of you annual passholders?

Thanks for any insight! I have a trip coming up in November, and I call almost daily for a pin code. I worry that I already have the trip scheduled WITH dining, so Disney wouldn't consider giving me a code. Currently, I have all my hopes pinned on August 1 for a general public code - just praying they aren't all "used up" for my particular dates/resort!!

1. Annually

2. Yes. Disney doesn't really leave you a choice anymore

3. Mostly email. Occasionally snail mail.

4. No clue. I've received several every year, sometimes using one. A lot of the times the pin doesn't fit anywhere near our travel plans. I haven't received one this year though. Sometimes I already have a reservation, sometimes not. Some of the pins are for packages, sometimes RO.

5. I will usually purchase a room only. Note: I do not EVER pay rack rate. If not using a pin, I'll use an AP rate, GP discount, a Visa discount, rent DVC points (increasingly better than the discounts), or stay offsite in a rental home (ALWAYS the best deal).

6. Until this year. I'm seeing less value in it now.

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[xipotec]

I was going to try this same thing......


Then i realized something, I HAVE gotten 2 PINs before. But here is the thing, to get a PiN when you need it is the trick!

Everyone on this board probably has gotten a PIN but to get it for when you have booked or want to travel seems to be whys its seems so random.

 

[Babsy]

I'm in the same boat as aubriee. I have never gotten a pin, despite doing everything conventional wisdom says to do to get one. However, my Mom gets PINS snt to her all the time TO MY EMAIL. We don't live at the same address or have the same last name, so \i don't think that I can use them. AARGH!! I am afraid that I will never get a pin because my email is linked to my Mom's name (she doeswn't have her own email so she 'uses' mine when necessary and gets me to give her the info (she also doesn't have, or use, a computer).

Guess I'm out of luck with pins.

 

[LovinPooh]

So its attached to names and not email addresses?? So if i call will they check my whole travel party?
I have a trip booked feb 2014. And i would love to get my hands on a pin.
I go every year... not ap holders. Never ever gotten a pin

 

[su_A_ve]

It's totally random - But I do have a feeling that using a TA does not help. Most of our reservations have been either via ConventionEars or AAA. The AAA reservations however were started by me and then transferred over to AAA.

After my first bounce back reservation, I got a PIN for the same dates.

Then a couple of years ago, I booked FD (again transferred to AAA) but also booked a room only res for 2n for my parents. Somehow, that got attached to my work email address.

And then after that, PINs started flowing in, to my work email. But in my parent's address. This year, finally I wanted to use it for FD in the fall. Called and they verified that the only people listed there were my mother and my youngest son.

After talking to a supervisor, they allowed me to book FD with the PIN.

It's a crap shot...

 

[AmberHeartsDisney]

1. How often do you go to Disney? Oh most every year. (We have not been since 2011 due to illness)

2. Do you use My Disney Experience? Yes.

3. How did you receive your pin code (mail, email, from calling Disney)? Normally email.

4. Can you speculate about what you did to get a pin code? I always request maps, dvd's and save trips to my cart.

5. When you do go to Disney, what do you typically purchase when not using a pin code (I mean, package, room only, with dining)? Normally room only unless we get a pin for free dining.

6. Are any of you annual passholders? Once but not since 2010.

 

[disneygrl704]

So its attached to names and not email addresses?? So if i call will they check my whole travel party?
I have a trip booked feb 2014. And i would love to get my hands on a pin.
I go every year... not ap holders. Never ever gotten a pin

You can call and they will check your names? I had them check mine and my husbands but we didn't have one yet. She did verify my email though and told me to keep checking.

 

[Twoboysnmygirl]

1. How often do you go to Disney? (I go at least 1-3 times a year, so worry that Disney has no reason to send me a pin...)
5 times since 2008 (so basically once a year although we skipped 2010 and I went twice in 2012.

2. Do you use My Disney Experience?
Yes, but hate it. (I know, you didn't ask, but I hate it so much that I had to vent. LOL. Liked the old website better)

3. How did you receive your pin code (mail, email, from calling Disney)?
Always have gotten them in email. This last one I only got to ONE of my emails and not the one I use regularly, one that I made a while back that I have not logged in with in a LONG time. (I have 3 different emails connected to WDW with my name or my husbands.

4. Can you speculate about what you did to get a pin code?
In the past before MDE, I used to get them all the time and I thought it was because I would price a vacation and save it in the area where you could have up to 5 trip quotes saved. Then I would get off the site and TRY not to login for a while. I don't think this helps you though b/c MDE is totally different and you can only put one vacation quote in your cart. I have also ordered the DVD before each trip. This recent pin for 2014 I believe I got because it was a fairly dormant email that I had not logged in with for a while. My other emails did not get a pin.

5. When you do go to Disney, what do you typically purchase when not using a pin code (I mean, package, room only, with dining)?
I don't think I've ever been without a pin code or a general public code for FD. Never have paid rack rates, but always book package with or without dining and then adjust when I get a pin or a GP offer comes out.

6. Are any of you annual passholders?
No.

 

[Twoboysnmygirl]

I'm in the same boat as aubriee. I have never gotten a pin, despite doing everything conventional wisdom says to do to get one. However, my Mom gets PINS snt to her all the time TO MY EMAIL. We don't live at the same address or have the same last name, so \i don't think that I can use them. AARGH!! I am afraid that I will never get a pin because my email is linked to my Mom's name (she doeswn't have her own email so she 'uses' mine when necessary and gets me to give her the info (she also doesn't have, or use, a computer).

Guess I'm out of luck with pins.

So what would happen if you made a NEW gmail account and made a new account on MDE in YOUR name? That's what I would do. Sign up with a new email address so that the computer will have your name and email together.

 

[*Fantasia*]

When we have been going to Disney, we don't get a PIN. Now that we have stopped going to Disney for awhile since 2005, then they send us a pin and it seems like every year. We do have a plan to go back, just don't know when. But I am sure when we are ready to go back, we will probably won't get a PIN. You know "Murphy's Law"?

 

[mchelle77]

I am sure this has been asked before, but I did a search and didn't find "answers" to all of my questions. I do recognize that this is all speculation, but thought I would put it out there again.

So, here are my questions FOR THOSE THAT HAVE received Pin Codes:

1. How often do you go to Disney? (I go at least 1-3 times a year, so worry that Disney has no reason to send me a pin...)

2. Do you use My Disney Experience?

3. How did you receive your pin code (mail, email, from calling Disney)?

4. Can you speculate about what you did to get a pin code?

5. When you do go to Disney, what do you typically purchase when not using a pin code (I mean, package, room only, with dining)?

6. Are any of you annual passholders?

Thanks for any insight! I have a trip coming up in November, and I call almost daily for a pin code. I worry that I already have the trip scheduled WITH dining, so Disney wouldn't consider giving me a code. Currently, I have all my hopes pinned on August 1 for a general public code - just praying they aren't all "used up" for my particular dates/resort!!

1. I've gone 4 other times, but spread out (as you can see from my sig)

2. Yes, every time now. I had booked a value room, but constantly priced out moderates each time in case we got free dining. Always saved multiple offers on my account.

3. I've received TWO pins this year! First was via snail mail. The second was via PHONE CALL. From a cell in Orlando, my husband almost didn't answer. He actually ended the call (instead of pressing 1 to accept the offer of free dining) but I called in the morning and sure enough, the pin was still good.

4. I booked a short trip in April just before a cruise we were going on, but then canceled it when we realized we wanted to focus our spending on the cruise. Snail mail code for a room discount came. Then we booked the week of Veterans Day and canceled (had to move to first week of December) and got the code days later.

5. This is the first time I got a code, as far as I can remember. Last year was our first time staying on site AND we happened to get free dining when it was offered to the public.

6. No.

 

[Jimbo352]

What is a pin code?