Some people may not like this opinion, but....

[mking624]

That's absolutely true. The thing is, some of us are obsessive compulsive planners and want to know NOW what kind of price we'll get. I'm confident that there will be some kind of room only offer over the same dates as free dining but if the current public offer is any indication then it may not be as big of a discount at the PIN and darn it, I'm impatient and I want the best deal possible and I want it now (please tell me you could read the whining tone that came with that; LOL).

Trust me, I completely understand. I'm one of those "release the freakin' code already!!" planners as well! I've been glued to my computer....

 

[doccoc2002]

I haven't gotten a lot of pin codes...maybe 3 and I am never able to use them. We have the DV so I usually book with those. My mom just got a pin code for 25% off because she volunteered...Well, we did too and to the same place/time. The CM told me that Disney is probably sending them out to a select few or so many in the area. I guess they only allow for so many in each area and then mail them out. I guess I should start telling my neighbors to get off disney's mailing list!That way I can get more pin codes

 

[DoodlesMom]

We also decided we must have gone too often to deserve incentives However, we haven't been since Feb.09 so I keep waiting & hoping
We talked our friends into going with us a couple years ago, they've now been twice & they get pins all the time And I've done it ALL. Even took the surveys at the park thinking that might do it...nope. I'll just keep hoping that one day the Disney gods will smile upon me.

 

[PIRATEGIRL007]

I understand the frustration but you can get public discounts available most times of the year, use one of those. Almost anytime a pin is offered there is something offered for the public, most pins have the same black out dates as public offers (Christmas, Easter and July 4ht week), so its not like you have to pay full price all the time. Just wait until Disney does away with public disocunts or cuts down on them drastically (as stated by thier CEO this year), then the complaining will really start.


Flame away but I personally think offers should be made to Disney Visa holders more exclusively than they are. The current kids stay, play and eat free is the only one I can remember in recent history that has not been extended to the general publick. One of thier major advertising points is Disney vacation deals yet none have been available yet that hasn't went public and everyone could get it.

 

[Guzzi]

I dont know how disney operates its marketing software that generates the email pin codes we recieved.

before we got the 30% room rate discount for mods, I ordered the planning dvd, and went on Disney travel and set up an account and put together trip quotes for the time period of our trip. I did this to or three seperate times deleting the previous saved trip quotes.

It was fun putting together the trip quotes, took about 15 minutes at a clip at lunch time and was clearly worth the savings we recieved.

I dont know if this generated the pin code, the 20 30 40 % percent codes seems to have been sent to almost everyone on the boards since we recieved it.

As for the free quick service dining plan code we recieved, I have no clue. I havent been on disney .com in quite a while and our trip has been booked for about two months. Just luck? I guess so

I have to agree with you that the process does not seem fair

 

[mousebit]

OP is absolutely right. It's only natural to feel "cheated" (or at least like your business is not appreciated) when you've been giving a company a good-sized chunk o' change a couple of times a year for several years, you book yet another vacation with them, and then you discover that the folks going to the same place at the same time as you are getting a deal for significantly less - and you didn't even have a shot at it.

In this economy I simply cannot afford to be extravagant. I'm a coupon-clippin, sale-shoppin, go-without-it-unless-I-need-it, save-for-more-rainy-days kind of person (just like a lot of us are). I can't dip into college or retirement savings to pay for a vacation.

It's not that I'm not happy to see people get a deal. I'm not a selfish woman. But somehow I just don't think that dessert is going to taste so yummy when I look around the room and realize others got it for free while I had to pay full price. Again, not selfish - maybe just a little too budget-conscious. Makes me feel like I'm the sucker helping to finance someone else's vacation by being foolish enough to pay more.

I'm not angry about it. As others have said, "Life isn't fair." It just sucks some of the fun out of it - makes it a little less "Disney."

So, I'll keep doing my research and if Disney doesn't offer me a plan that makes me feel good about vacationing with them again, I'll just go somewhere else. Right now, we're discussing cancelling our May trip for SW, DC and BG. And if we don't get free dining this fall, we'll probably go to US for Harry Potter.

Maybe I should be happy I haven't gotten a PIN code. Might be a cure for this Disney addiction I've had these past few years.

 

[Tiffany]

how is it fair that some people get pin codes & others never do? How does Disney actually think this is fair? I have been there 8 or 9 times, and have never received one. Yet I know people who have received several.

Just something that is bugging me today!

It is not meant to be fair. Targeted marketing is just that. None of us know what the critiera is and in fact the more you go without a discount the less likely you would get one if that was the only factor as they do not need to discount their product in order to get you to buy it, it is really just marketing 101.

 

[goofy's_gurl]

Getting a discount is at random. It doesnt matter how many times you may go to Disney. You never know if you will get one. Just hope and wait.

 

[wdw71]

it keeps up the mystic of the PIN code, they want people to feel special, like they got something that no one else did and it works. Plus they love checking in on these boards, watching us all squirm for a code. I don't understand it all either. I received one last year for a gift card and my husband got one this year (the 20 30 40 code). They both worked in getting us to take another trip to the world. But the code my husband got that got us to book in November became a public code here a month ago or so which takes the gusto out of it, we don't feel special anymore.