Question about E-vouchers

[bgula]

With AM moving to consolidate cash and dream AM's, I'm wondering if I can make my life easier. Here's my question to the experts. I haven't done the math to see if it is to my benefit, but I think it might be. Over the past 20 years, I've always accumulated AM's each year in order to purchase Disney tickets which I would then take to Disney and price-bridge them in order to use their value toward renewing our annual passes. Needless to say, some years it's a struggle to get to a CM that will do the price-bridging correctly (or at all) and other years no problem. I'm wondering if it would now just be easier for me to covert my AM's to Disney e-vouchers and use that value toward renewing our AP's? Again, not sure if I'd lose out on some $'s, but it sure seems easier not having to argue about price-bridging with a CM. What do you think? I have about 10000 AM's right now, so that would be ~$1050 CDN or ~$750 US to work with. Funny (not really) how a few years ago would have paid for most of my AP's and now it barely scratches the surface!

 

[hdrolfe]

You could use the personal shopper to get the annual pass? I imagine it would be a lot of AM.
When I compared the price in AM, and CAD through AM for the after hours events I was looking at, it was cheaper for me to use AM to get the gift cards and use those to pay for the tickets. I think between 2-300 AM less. So I am getting the gift cards instead of buying the tickets through AM.

 

[bgula]

You could use the personal shopper to get the annual pass? I imagine it would be a lot of AM.
When I compared the price in AM, and CAD through AM for the after hours events I was looking at, it was cheaper for me to use AM to get the gift cards and use those to pay for the tickets. I think between 2-300 AM less. So I am getting the gift cards instead of buying the tickets through AM.

I'm renewing AP's, not buying new ones. I guess I'll have to do the math and see which way is cheaper/easier, but I think GC's will probably win out.

 

[Donald - my hero]

After hearing all the horror stories of people's experiences during the covid restrictions connected to travel if they had booked thru any method other than directly with the company, I'm reluctant to use a 3rd party for any travel related things, that includes using airmiles for ticket purchases. If you get gift cards to put towards tickets/ annual passes, you'll be able to get any discounts available. If you use them for accommodations and can't go for whatever reason, then you can get that refunded back onto the card.

we've had less than stellar results with ticket bridging the last few trips as well BTW and using air miles converted to gift cards will be more flexible. That way Disney knows exactly how much you've paid for ticket media and will apply the full amount to any upgrades