Purchasing tickets through discount sites

[cush1]

We just ordered from UnderCover tourist, saved $181 from the WDW price and got 1% cash back with Ebates.com I got the e-ticket email within 5 minutes, my wife typed in the reservation number, and it showed the 4 tickets to connect to our 4 magic bands.

 

[will5mom]

I ordered from Orlandofuntickets and saved about $200 . Got an e-mail confirmation and entered on MDE all tickets showed up.

 

[FrenchGirl]

I chose paper tix from UT because it said that they were refundable, but the e-tix were not. Is that true?

 

[loveswdw]

We just ordered from UnderCover tourist, saved $181 from the WDW price and got 1% cash back with Ebates.com I got the e-ticket email within 5 minutes, my wife typed in the reservation number, and it showed the 4 tickets to connect to our 4 magic bands.

Dang, you got me excited! Ebates states no cash back on tickets on their website, only hotels and car rentals. I wouldn't count on that 1% back.

Cash Back Terms

• 1.0% Cash Back on Hotels and Car Rentals
• No Cash Back on Tickets

Exclusions: Cash Back is not available on tickets. Cash Back is only available on hotels and Car rentals.

 

[LisaPisa]

My trip isn't until 2018. How do I know the tickets I'm looking at don't expire before then? They're non-refundable e-tickets.

 

[Robo]

1. I chose paper tix from UT because
2. it said that they were refundable, but the e-tix were not. Is that true?

1. Just a point of order: UT does not sell paper tickets.
The "regular tickets" that UT sells are plastic RFID tickets (same tickets that guests can buy at WDW ticket booths.)

2. e-tickets from UT are not refundable.
If you buy regular tickets (plastic RFID) and have them sent to you, they remain refundable (less 5% fee) for 365 days.
HOWEVER, once you link a regular ticket to your MyDisneyExperience account, it is no longer returnable.

 

[Robo]

My trip isn't until 2018. How do I know the tickets I'm looking at don't expire before then? They're non-refundable e-tickets.

If you are buying a ticket from UT (or other reseller) that is
at the "old price" from "old stock" (before the price increase of Feb. 12. 2017)
those tickets do not have an expiration date.
If you are not sure, contact customer service at the site from which you want to order.

 

[DisBuckMan]

I chose paper tix from UT because it said that they were refundable, but the e-tix were not. Is that true?

This is correct. E-tix are not refundable, because there's no way to know if you linked them to your MDE.

The plastic card tix they mail you are refundable. They mail them attached to a sheet of paper inside a sealed plastic wrap. The only way the tix are refundable is if you DO NOT break the seal on the plastic, thereby being able to turn them over and view the number to link them.

 

[My3Princez]

My trip isn't until 2018. How do I know the tickets I'm looking at don't expire before then? They're non-refundable e-tickets.

Even the new expiring tickets are valid until 12/31/2018. (Except the special 4-park tickets that expire in May 2017 and a couple of the FL resident tickets that expire in mid-December 2018.)

 

[HulaHoopy]

I bought some tickets from UT and some from Disney, but not as part of a package because I wanted different # of days and some with PH and some without. I linked them in MDE and am currently 67 days from my trip. It currently allows me to make fastpasses for the next 30 days. Will it automatically switch at 60 days out from my resort reservation to let me make the fastpasses during that time?

 

[AngiTN]

I bought some tickets from UT and some from Disney, but not as part of a package because I wanted different # of days and some with PH and some without. I linked them in MDE and am currently 67 days from my trip. It currently allows me to make fastpasses for the next 30 days. Will it automatically switch at 60 days out from my resort reservation to let me make the fastpasses during that time?

Yes

 

[HulaHoopy]

Yes

Thank you! I have to make fastpasses for 11, so I just want make sure I have everything in good order!

 

[TnTWalter]

ugh....once again...life got busy...haven't checked...decided to buy today because tomorrow is 30 day out for fast passes...UGH.. always miss the price increase...luckily it's just for 1 ticket.

 

[michelle06]

We had an option to purchase discount tickets through work, and the site there insisted they had to be actually will called on a specific date you choose. I suspected the tickets were really e-tickets, but calling them produced no information because they did not know anything. So I discovered many other discount sites are all using this "will call" system. So I purchased them from Undercover Tourist because they were one of the only sites that admitted you get e tickets.

It sounds like the work tickets are the way you feared. There are such tickets that do involve pick up at will call and specific dates. They are a pain and you can't put them in MDE ahead of time. They are out there and tickets from employers are typically part of that. I think UT is much easier to deal with! Most discounters do not involve the craziness but some actually do!

 

[mistyinca]

It sounds like the work tickets are the way you feared. There are such tickets that do involve pick up at will call and specific dates. They are a pain and you can't put them in MDE ahead of time. They are out there and tickets from employers are typically part of that. I think UT is much easier to deal with! Most discounters do not involve the craziness but some actually do!

No. They are e-tickets from work as well. She had sent me a sample of an old "will call" ticket and it had the same type of batch reservation number that UT uses. She also believed they expire, but my guess is that they didn't prior to 2/12/17. They were very nice and at least they tried to understand the system. They just didn't give me enough confidence to drop $1600 with them and take that risk, and UT was upfront about everything, and there were lots of people here who had used them succesfully, so I felt safer purchasing from them.

 

[kennethsrib]

Hi everyone. I am going to search the rest of the site, but needed to start somewhere. I have been a subscriber to mousesavers for years, but have not read the newsletters recently, because, well, we had no plans of traveling to disney for a while, and it just made me sad LOL. This morning we were gifted with a week long visit to Florida, so naturally we want to go to WDW. would someone be able to share the link to UT with me? I cleared out my trash cache three days ago.

 

[Robo]

Hi everyone. I am going to search the rest of the site, but needed to start somewhere. I have been a subscriber to mousesavers for years, but have not read the newsletters recently, because, well, we had no plans of traveling to disney for a while, and it just made me sad LOL. This morning we were gifted with a week long visit to Florida, so naturally we want to go to WDW. would someone be able to share the link to UT with me? I cleared out my trash cache three days ago.

undercovertourist.com

 

[kennethsrib]

Thank you, however I should have said would someone send me the February Newsletter of Mousesavers. I did find a copy in my spam folder, but it does not have active links to UT.

 

[DaisyJ]

1. Just a point of order: UT does not sell paper tickets.
The "regular tickets" that UT sells are plastic RFID tickets (same tickets that guests can buy at WDW ticket booths.)

2. e-tickets from UT are not refundable.
If you buy regular tickets (plastic RFID) and have them sent to you, they remain refundable (less 5% fee) for 365 days.
HOWEVER, once you link a regular ticket to your MyDisneyExperience account, it is no longer returnable.

They are refundable only if they are unopened.

 

[preemiemama]

So, just clarifying, if I have e-tickets and I put in the reservation number and now have a ticket tied to people in my family and friends in my MDE account, do I need to do anything else to activate them? Or will they work at the entrance right away? We have different people arriving at different times, but all bought under one person's account. Trying to make sure we don't need the one person to go to GR and activate them for each person?