Question re selling WDW tickets

[toddy2810]

Hi. I'm sorry if this has been posted in the wrong place - I'm new here - so please move if appropriate.

Just back from Florida and read up on it lots on this site before we went - thanks! Anyway - We had purchased a 5 day Hopper ticket for WDW - 2 adults and 2 children. Unfortunately 2 of our party were ill towards the end of the visit and we were unable to use the last 2 days (we missed getting to MGM+Epcot). The 2 adult tickets were fingerprinted but not signed. Can we re-sell the tickets or can we only sell the children's ones which were not signed or fingerprinted? (this will help cover the cost of the spending while we were there!)
Thanks

 

[Miffy2003]

Hi Toddy

I'm sorry to hear some of your party were ill when away

WDW tickets are non transferable so you are not "allowed" to sell them on. That is to say, the terms and conditions do not allow it.

The "fingerprint" part can highlight different individuals trying to use tickets erroneously.

Why not keep them and use for a future trip?

Karen

 

[juliebro]

While I agree that legally the tickets are non-transferable, I have some doubts about the accuracy of the 'finger-printing' that Disney use to validate the tickets. DH and I are both in IT-related jobs and had discussed during our recent trip whether it was likely that Disney had really got the image-handling technologies that would be required for accurate finger-print matching. At this stage I would point out that we were not aware that it is actually 'biometric' measurements that Disney use, rather then fingerprint images.

We decided to try a little test among the 3 of us (DH, DS & me) and swap our tickets around on our second day. We were not too surprised when found that we all managed to get in the parks (using each other's tickets).

Our conclusion was that it was more likely to be a perceived deterrent rather than an actual detterent.

At a petrol station that we called at one day, there was a ticket booth advertising that they bought unused days on tickets. On asking how they managed to overcome the issue of the biometric scanners at the gate - he told me that the scanners were 'a load of bull' or words to that effect - designed to deter people from using transferred tickets.

Julie

 

[toddy2810]

Thanks for the replies!

 

[florida sun]

My daughter and I mixed our tickets up by mistake last year and niether of us could gain entry until we swopped them around to the right person,they were both adult tickets, might have just been a ticket issue but it would make me think twice.

 

[Spook]

We frequently had trouble using our own tickets and the cm's were not always that patient and I rather got the impression that they thought we were up to criminal activities

Jan