We have success! I've added the 14-day ticket to my Disney account! I can see it and Memory Maker on the regular website! So it all looks like it's worked out.
Here's a timeline of events, which I feel might be helpful for those on the fence:
1:35 AM- paid on the Attraction Tickets website for the tickets. Adding the cost plus the 20 GDP for the cancellation/flex policy and Visa translating it to CAD it was about $1018 CAD. However, it said "there were problems with approving your payment" or something. Nonetheless I got a ticket # (WRITE THIS DOWN!).
Absolutely zero email confirmation, though. And to access your info, you need that #. If I hadn't saved it on that screen when it happened I wouldn't have had any confirmation of anything for about 25 hours. Write down that number!
2:00 AM- the A.T. sale and such is on my Visa account. I check with them later and they confirm it's gone through and A.T. has to do it. Their website just says "pending" and such.
2-5 PM- I send an email to A.T. just to see what's up and if it doesn't go through if I still get charged or something. Just for reassurance.
1:35 AM (next day)- Still nothing, 24 hours after payment. Everyone online is telling me "OMG I would only ever buy tickets right FROM Disney", but I swear I checked here and other sites to confirm it's not a scam site, lol.
2:21 AM- I get a notification that the sale is approved (this is like 10 am London time).
3:16 AM- I get an email response, quoted above. They say that it's approved and Disney should release the tickets around 12:30 PM London time. The website says "awaiting supplier conf" (Why don't they just type the entire word?).
7:21 AM- I get an email- the tickets are ready! I'm at work at this point. It's 2:21-ish London time by that point, so they're only sorta close on the time, assuming that's when it actually went through.
1:00 PM- I am able to put the tickets voucher # into my Disney account using my phone internet (the
MDE app wouldn't do it- just directed me to the website). I did in fact have to go on the UK version of the website to do this- no idea why. I tried to do it on the regular site just to see if I could and it said "Request not found" or some weird thing that didn't make sense. Despite knowing about the issue I was still like "uh-oh". To be fair, it explains explicitly ON the voucher which website you're supposed to visit to do this, so if you actually read everything you should know ahead of time.
I double-checked the regular Disney site afterwards and was able to see my tickets under my name and such.
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I probably should have done the "pretend you're from Ireland and pay Euros" trick, lol. Just checking Google it was 18 bucks CAD less. I just felt like it was maybe being a little TOO cheeky, I dunno- this was stressful enough as it is! meh, only $18.
All in all the tickets would have been about $1200 CAD if I'd paid Disney themselves, so this is about $180 in savings. Not HUGE, but not bad! I'm a retail worker and I'm lucky if I get $330 in the bank at the end of every month after bills, so saving about half of that (plus getting an extra day- I'm there for 11 days and Disney only sells 10-day tickets, max) is kinda worth all the hassle and extra time to do this, plus all the worrying about "did this work? They're not gonna rip me off, are they?". Still I can see why everyone is hesitant about it and thinks it's too good to be true, and it WAS a nuisance. And part of me's still like "oh but what if they suddenly decide you REALLY have to be from the UK?" or something, so I won't even ask them in the parks until I'm ready to go home, lol.
But it all seemed to work! Thanks, everyone!
