Purchasing tickets before hand, linking them

[JohnDaleswife]

If I go ahead and buy my tickets and link them to myself and my family, they are forever linked to each individual family member, yes or no?

 

[CarolynFH]

Not until they're used. Until someone actually uses one to enter a park, it can be reassigned to someone else.

 

[Hootch]

They are linked to a particular person when the finger scan has been put in the Disney system. An unused ticket can be given, or sold I suppose, to someone else.

Some official Disney resellers, like Undercover Tourist, will not take returns after they are linked to the MDE.

 

[Best Aunt]

If you order online from Disney, it asks for your email address. If you have a MDE account affiliated with that email address, the tickets go into that MDE account automatically.

If you order from a place like Undercover Tourist and they mail you the tickets, you can enter the tickets into your MDE account.

Once a ticket is in your MDE account, you can assign it to someone in your MDE account. After you have assigned it, you can re-assign it to someone else in your MDE account if it has not been used.

Once a ticket is in your MDE account -- I don't know how you give it to someone who is not in your MDE account. I believe there is a way to do it if the ticket has not been used, but I don't know if it requires a phone call to Disney tech support.

If you order from a place like Undercover Tourist, they mail you the tickets but you have not yet entered the tickets into your MDE account - you can give the tickets to someone else.

I'm sure someone will jump in if any of this is wrong.