quick, help me! ticket question

[TwinsRmyLife]

Have you ever bought tickets from craigslist (or somewhere similar) from a private seller? I'm just about to buy my tickets for our trip in 2 weeks and decided to look at craigslist and see if this is something people sold. sure enough, an add for 4 adult 5 day hopper tickets, $200 each, in my city. whenever I think something is too good to be true, it usually is. but just curious if this is even allowed. are tickets transferable? what should I look for to know they are ligit if I decide to go. is there a number or something I can take off and call it in? or best to just stay away?

 

[PrincessShmoo]

Have you ever bought tickets from craigslist (or somewhere similar) from a private seller? I'm just about to buy my tickets for our trip in 2 weeks and decided to look at craigslist and see if this is something people sold. sure enough, an add for 4 adult 5 day hopper tickets, $200 each, in my city. whenever I think something is too good to be true, it usually is. but just curious if this is even allowed. are tickets transferable? what should I look for to know they are ligit if I decide to go. is there a number or something I can take off and call it in? or best to just stay away?

I would be cautious. I don't think anyone can resell DL tickets. And, if they've already been used for a day, especially the multi day ones, I think they have a photograph attached to them in the system.

 

[allsaintsatx]

You can do whatever makes you feel comfortable, but if it was me I would say "OH H**L NO!!"

 

[ParkHopper1]

Have you ever bought tickets from craigslist (or somewhere similar) from a private seller?

No, not worth the risk. There are MANY ticket scams out there.

whenever I think something is too good to be true, it usually is.

Go with your instinct

but just curious if this is even allowed.

Unless they are an authorized retailer...no it is not and you will have no recourse.

are tickets transferable?

No and Disney goes to great lengths to prevent transfers once a ticket is activated

what should I look for to know they are ligit if I decide to go. is there a number or something I can take off and call it in?

Nope, you are fully trusting the seller

or best to just stay away?

Yes, unless you can afford to risk loosing the whole $200 per ticket and have to buy new ones when you find out at the gates you got scammed...but then if you could afford that spending a few extra bucks on legit tickets would not be a question.

Don't do it. I don't really care about the Disney rules aspect but more hate the scamers that are out there.

 

[wenrob]

You said it yourself, if it's too good to be true... No way I would take that chance.

 

[goooof1]

SCAM!!
Do not do it!! Disney tickets are not transferable. As pp said, you will have to buy real tickets at the gate and you will be out your $200/ticket.

 

[Rubygoose]

There are other, legitimate, places online to buy tickets at a slight discount. Take a look at way.com and aRes travel. If you're in Canada, check out Flight Centre or Costco.ca for the city pass.

 

[disney world dreamer]

be smart.
you'd be purchasing illegally sold tickets which may or may not even be legit or could be expired or have no days left on them.

 

[cmpeter]

There is no way I would take that risk.

 

[GenGen22]

With all those scams in Nygeria going on, on Craigslist I wouldn't chance it... its not worth the loss.

 

[DLfan4]

my co-workers once bought tickets to a concert online. she thought it was ok since the tickets were really legit tickets .... only to find out at the gate to the concert hall that the original purchaser reported them lost/stolen and they were cancelled. she couldn't get into the concert

 

[Malcon10t]

Plenty of these stories.

http://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2014...elling-fake-disneyland-tickets-on-craigslist/

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lan...ng-fake-disneyland-tickets-on-craigslist.html

 

[Wrangler]

Not a (Bad word) chance.

 

[lalasmama]

This is a common scam, and something Disney is fighting against. Here's how it goes:

Scammer buys a 5-day ticket, often in e-form (computer print-out with bar code). They use it however much they want.

They offer the ticket up at a huge discount.

The buyer uses a few days, and then sends it back (this may not always happen, depending on the scam).

Then, if there are days left, the scammer sells/rents the tickets again, again at a huge discount over Disneyland-bought tickets, and the scammer has made $$$ without doing anything but sending out the tickets.

Another common variance is the scammer printing an e-ticket out multiple times, and selling the copies. People don't realize the barcode is person-specific, trust the seller that its "good", and get to the gates to find out the original print-out was already used, so their e-ticket isn't worth anything. Then the scammer has made even more money off of just the price of the original e-ticket.

So, why won't renting a ticket work? Disney takes pictures (usually on the first day of use). So, unless you look like the first person to use the ticket, you're out of luck when your face doesn't match their picture. Also, if they suspect some sort of nefariace activity, they may pull you aside and ask you questions about it (when it was bought, cash or credit card for the initial purchase, etc). And names are printed on most tickets now. Scammers renting and reselling tickets is a HUGE reason Americans can only get 5-day tickets now, instead of being able to add days on like we used to do.

 

[mikedoyleblogger]

Have you ever bought tickets from craigslist (or somewhere similar) from a private seller? I'm just about to buy my tickets for our trip in 2 weeks and decided to look at craigslist and see if this is something people sold. sure enough, an add for 4 adult 5 day hopper tickets, $200 each, in my city. whenever I think something is too good to be true, it usually is. but just curious if this is even allowed. are tickets transferable? what should I look for to know they are ligit if I decide to go. is there a number or something I can take off and call it in? or best to just stay away?

Tickets are non-transferable, so there is no legal reseller market outside Disney and official partner sales channels. DLR takes your photo and makes you sign your ticket upon entrance to stop reseller scams, so if the ticket was formerly used in any way, you'd be barred from entrance.