Reselling unused days on Disneyland tickets?

[aribelle]

I have a friend who is planning to buy 3 days remaining on her neighbor's 8 day pass (the neighbor is going September 14-18 and my friend is going to meet her in Anheim to get the tickets on the 19th.

I told her I didn't think you could use someone else's tickets. I KNOW at DisneyWORLD you can't do it because of the fingerscan, but doesn't DisneyLAND have something to prevent this cheating from occuring?

I'm not trying to get into the ethical boundaries with her, I just don't want her to pack up the family, drive 7 hours to meet this neighbor and pay for tickets that she then won't be able to use. This is a big trip for her, as she seldom travels beyond our county, lol, so she's pretty naive and keeps telling me her neighbor wouldn't cheat her. I'm guessing the neighbor may not realize it can't be done too?

Or, am I the one out of the loop because I have been doing WDW for the last two years and have their security stuck in my head? Last time I was at DisneyLAND we had APs and they had our photos on them, WDW doesn't have photos, so I know there are differences between the parks. How about the regular park tickets?

 

[Queenbillabong]

There are no photos on the passes (unless they are APs) and no fingerprint scanners, but it does state on the tickets they are nontransferrable. I know people do this - I don't agree with it, but people do it.

 

[aribelle]

There are no photos on the passes (unless they are APs) and no fingerprint scanners, but it does state on the tickets they are nontransferrable. I know people do this - I don't agree with it, but people do it.

Too bad, I was hoping to not have to say anything about the ethics of it, she isn't real strong in that area.....I was hoping telling her that the fingerscan would stop her would suffice.

 

[DangerMouse]

Nope, there's nothing in place to prevent this thing from happening, and it happens all the time at DLR.

 

[dalepool]

It surprises me that the original purchaser does not just upgrade the tickets to Ap on her last day. One other thought ran in my mind, why buy a 8 day ticket if your intentions are to not use all days? I find this rather stranger. It would be my guess that your friend and her neighbor planned to use tickets then trade off and other family use ticket. If indeed this was a planned exchange to save money I totally understand with the economy being what it is.

I do think that Disney lets a lot of this stuff slide since guests spend more inside the parks then they do out side the park buying tickets.

 

[CalvaryMike]

I do think that Disney lets a lot of this stuff slide since guests spend more inside the parks then they do out side the park buying tickets.

So true. A CM signed us in and I just received my cc statement. Wow, did we spend a lot at DLR!

 

[aribelle]

It surprises me that the original purchaser does not just upgrade the tickets to Ap on her last day. One other thought ran in my mind, why buy a 8 day ticket if your intentions are to not use all days? I find this rather stranger. It would be my guess that your friend and her neighbor planned to use tickets then trade off and other family use ticket. If indeed this was a planned exchange to save money I totally understand with the economy being what it is.

I do think that Disney lets a lot of this stuff slide since guests spend more inside the parks then they do out side the park buying tickets.

I wondered about the 8 days too, because I only see the ability to buy 5 days on disneyland.com. But my friend says the tickets were part of a hotel/ticket package and they're staying in the hotel but doing other things some of the days, so that does make some kind of sense. They're selling the tickets for $75 each which to my friend sounds fantastic with a 3 day normally being $170......but I'm guessing from the price per day of a 3 day ($54 a a day) and a 5 day ($37.50 a day), that an 8 day will be roughly that a day anyway. So the neighbor is going to get reimbursed the entire cost for those unused day, what a great deal for them, but not especially a great deal for my friend if she gets caught. I feel for the kids if they get their vacation ruined when she gets caught....great lesson she's teaching them.

 

[disney-inspired]

I have a friend who is planning to buy 3 days remaining on her neighbor's 8 day pass (the neighbor is going September 14-18 and my friend is going to meet her in Anheim to get the tickets on the 19th.

I told her I didn't think you could use someone else's tickets. I KNOW at DisneyWORLD you can't do it because of the fingerscan, but doesn't DisneyLAND have something to prevent this cheating from occuring?

I'm not trying to get into the ethical boundaries with her, I just don't want her to pack up the family, drive 7 hours to meet this neighbor and pay for tickets that she then won't be able to use. This is a big trip for her, as she seldom travels beyond our county, lol, so she's pretty naive and keeps telling me her neighbor wouldn't cheat her. I'm guessing the neighbor may not realize it can't be done too?

Or, am I the one out of the loop because I have been doing WDW for the last two years and have their security stuck in my head? Last time I was at DisneyLAND we had APs and they had our photos on them, WDW doesn't have photos, so I know there are differences between the parks. How about the regular park tickets?

Yes it is possible for her to use the remaining days on the passes, unless they are some kind of Southern California discounted tickets. I would just make sure that the neighbor didn't sign the ticket. I have used the remainder of some one's ticket before and it was fine. There are no pictures on the tickets so anyone could use them.

 

[Wavy Blue]

Ethically, it is wrong. Personally I wouldn't do it, but its her choice. Then again, Disney is a multi-billion dollar company and park tickets are obscenely overpriced, so that would make one feel less bad in doing it.

I didn't even know they sold eight-day tickets...wouldn't an AP be cheaper?

 

[Amy&Dan]

I am amazed that Disneyland hasn't instituted the same type security measures that WDW has. But then again, so many of Disneyland's patrons are AP holders and those tickets do have a picture on them. At WDW, an AP is just a paper ticket, nothing but your fingerprint to identify its you just like all the other tickets/passes.

I think its wrong. I do agree that ticket prices are high, and yet for what you get, (rides, shows, parades, fireworks) its not that bad of a deal. In the end, I can't see a way to justify the means of using someone else's ticket. If its expensive, than you don't have to go. Its not a necessity or right to go to DL so to me there is never a good enough reason to justify doing something like this. I can't believe how holier than thou I sound, but really to me its just wrong.

If that first woman signs her tickets (which she should do) your friend is in trouble. And if those tickets are lost, they are in trouble. That's the flip side of this coin. Since the tickets are not linked to anyone, if you lose them, its like losing cash. There is no way to trace your tickets like they can at WDW. So you can cheat the system but make sure you don't lose your tickets or the system will cheat you!

 

[makthompson]

Disneyland is far behind WDW in that respect. When i went to Disneyland last month i was like..why are my tickets different from my room card and my credit card was on yet another card....they said that now they are adding on a resort there in California (which Californian's werent allowed to buy in Florida) they are going to be adding all of the features of WDW too! Now he didnt say when....he just said that it was going to happen. so they will be getting the hard card and the fingerprint thing.......

 

[Wavy Blue]

Also I tend to be a worry wart and if I were her, I would be worrying the ENTIRE trip about something going wrong, even if the odds were that I was safe. I think for the security and integrity of the whole situation one would be much better off paying for their own, new ticket than buying someone else's old one. I can't imagine anything worse than feeling GUILTY at Disneyland!

 

[bumbershoot]

I've read that if the CM at the gate is suspicious of the person using the ticket, they might ask where it was first used, when, etc. So they might want to get the use info from the neighbor.

There are 8 day hoppers available from certain places, so that's definitely real. Just odd that someone would buy it, hoping someone would buy the unused days!

 

[disney-inspired]

I've read that if the CM at the gate is suspicious of the person using the ticket, they might ask where it was first used, when, etc. So they might want to get the use info from the neighbor.

There are 8 day hoppers available from certain places, so that's definitely real. Just odd that someone would buy it, hoping someone would buy the unused days!

Molly's right. A friend gave me (I didn't pay for them) three tickets with one day left on them. I took my aunt and two cousins. I was going to upgrade them (they were 5 day park hoppers) to APs for them but the CMs at the annual pass center said that because they were purchased by my friends, even though they were a gift, her CC was linked to them so I couldn't upgrade. One ticket didn't work but the other two did.

 

[dalepool]

I have thought about this thread a few times today. It just does not ring right. I am thinking the original purchaser is on a package that was done via travel agent. I know that travel agents will only book a pass for you that is for say 3 out of 6 days if you are also booking say universal studios tickets to be used during your stay. You are not booked for length of stay like there is at WDW. It appears the first family is doing a few other parks during the stay. So again why did they get an 8 day ticket and not a ticket for how many days they plan on going to DL/DCA. This in my opinion was planned ahead of time. Just thinking ---

 

[Sy-]

One other thought ran in my mind, why buy a 8 day ticket if your intentions are to not use all days?

Because it only costs $5 to upgrade your parkhopper from a 5 day to a 6 day, $10 to go from a 5 day to a 7 day, and the same $10 to go from a 5 day to an 8 day.

I'm going to be in Anaheim for 6 nights and 7 days. I only plan on being in the park for 5 days but buying 7 days will allow me the opportunity to go into the parks on the days I wasn't planning to go. Perhaps only to watch the fireworks!

 

[bluegrizzlies1]

You can look at this 2 ways the way I see it .

1 buy them and save money or buy them upgrade to AP passes and go many times to disneyland.

Now by going AP and going many times think how much more money disneyland is getting from you. Disneyland is making more money from you then if you went 1 time.

2 is it right well no and you shouldn't do it, but people do what they have to do I guess.

Im really on the fence on this cause I can see it both ways.