Tickets on ebay?

[leahjade]

Has anyone ever bought park hoppers - there are some great deal, but I'm scared I'll get burned!

 

[mickeystoontown]

There's no way I would buy Disney tickets from anyone other than Disney or an official Disney ticket vendor. There is no way to simply look at a ticket and tell if it has been used or not.....if there are unused days.....etc. Definitely not worth taking a chance.

 

[Lynne M]

If those tickets have been used even once by someone else, the turnstiles will reject them when you try to use them. Disney does the finger scan thing at the ticket turnstile, so once the ticket is used, it's permanently linked to the finger scan of the first person to use it.

Whatever you're saving by buying on eBay....it's not worth the risk. We've seen horror stories of people who spent hundreds of dollars on tickets on eBay, only to get to WDW and find that they were worthless, and now they had to spend hundreds more on new tickets.

You can find modest discounts from legitimate ticket resellers, check Mousesavers for a list. There are no huge bargains available on Disney tickets.

 

[CanadianGuy]

This has come up and I can't find the most recent thread on this "Anyone Scammed on E-bay" but the vast majority of posters all agreed that since you won't know if the tickets you bought are actually valid until you arrive at the gate of the parks - it's an awfully big chance to take for not a lot of even potential "savings" ..

Stay away is my advice.

 

[WillCAD]

DON'T DO IT!!!​

Since there is no way to check the veracity of a WDW ticket except at WDW, even the people who sell tickets on eBay don't always know if a ticket has any entitlements left on it.

Then there's the whole thorny issue of using someone elses ticket now that WDW has biometric sensors at the turnstiles. Even if it works, it can throw a wrench into your vacation while you get it straightened out - and if you mention that you bought the ticket from eBay, the "non-transferable" rule will come up, and you won't be able to use the ticket at all.

So forget about eBay. Some are probably valid tickets, some are definitely scams, but none are worth the hassle and danger involved.

 

[mamaLori05]

I think the old saying of "If it sounds too good to be true it probably is" applies here!!

 

[Judy WI]

I have sold unused tickets on ebay so there are some who are real but dont know how you can tell for sure. I had purchased quest tickets for the family thru Disney and we ended up getting the 10day non-ex with the extras all ready added. The thing that made me laugh was these people who bought from me paid more for them then if they would have ordered them from Disney. I also had some comp tickets from hurricane Charlie and sold them also.

 

[tmatthews]

I wouldn't even though I know it is tempting .... try abfabflorida.com Tickets were cheaper than using mousesavers undercovertourist link.

 

[nikjd68]

If those tickets have been used even once by someone else, the turnstiles will reject them when you try to use them. Disney does the finger scan thing at the ticket turnstile, so once the ticket is used, it's permanently linked to the finger scan of the first person to use it.

First, there is a strong rumor the finger scanners are being removed. Second, they do not read finger prints. Anyone with a finger the same general size will work.

This doesn't mean you should buy tickets off ebay. The rest of the warnings on this thread are 100% true.

 

[kimluvswdw]

Don't do it. It is not worth the gamble. You will have to wait until you get there to see if they are any good and if they aren't then it is too late. It would be a shame to have to buy tickets again.

 

[disnut8]

Disney World tickets are non-transferrable. Therefore, if you do buy them from ebay and they have been used, you are committing a crime. If they are advertised as never been used, there is no way to determine if the seller is telling the truth.

My husband deals on ebay all the time. His auctions all have pictures with the items. How can you tell from a picture that a Disney World ticket is what the seller claims it to be? Or that the seller even possesses those tickets?

 

[minie_meese]

A while back I read a story on a message board about a family who paid over $700 DisneyWorld Park Hopper tickets on Ebay thinking they were getting a deal. The tickets were worthless and after being embarrassed at having all of their tickets fail, being sent to Guest Services where they wanted to know where the tickets came from and then having to shell out the $$$$$ for tickets from Disney to replace the worthless ones. It sounded like a horror story

You don't want to ruin your vacation. Do yourself a favor and do not buy Disney tickets on Ebay or any other auction site.

Read about some of the horror stories on Ebay's Community forum http://pages.ebay.com/community/answercenter/ type in Disney tickets - you will see pages of complaints and tons of lies from the sellers - like they verified the number of days with Disney over the phone.

 

[Robo]

First, there is a strong rumor the finger scanners are being removed.

"Strong" coming from where?

 

[WillCAD]

First, there is a strong rumor the finger scanners are being removed. Second, they do not read finger prints. Anyone with a finger the same general size will work.

This doesn't mean you should buy tickets off ebay. The rest of the warnings on this thread are 100% true.

If you did, indeed, hear a rumor that the finger scans were being removed, it's completely untrue. The finger scanners are there to stay, forever and ever, until Disney comes up with a better, more acurate method like photo ID (whidch they tried in the early 90s and was an abysmal failure), retinal scans, instant DNA sampling, or telepathic CMs.

Second, they DO read fingerprints, which they then convert into a unique numerical code, which is stored in the WDW computer (it does not store a picture or image of your fingerprint). Your comment sounds like you may be refering to the older scanners, which measured bone distance or some such nonsense; these older scanners were much less accurate and reliable than the current fingerprint scanners, not to mention far slower and sometimes outright painful to use, which is why they were replaced.

Perhaps the "rumor" you heard was started when someone saw the old scanners being removed from the gates 3 years ago and made a faulty assumption that they were simply being removed.

 

[Cheshire Figment]

First, there is a strong rumor the finger scanners are being removed. Second, they do not read finger prints. Anyone with a finger the same general size will work.

Wrong and Wrong. I work in turnstiles and ticket sales.

I don't know where you hear the rumors, but we are not hearing any here at the parks.

And the old two finger method looked at structure, the current one finger method does record a partial print the first time the ticket is used and looks for the same partial print on subsequent uses.

 

[Cheshire Figment]

There are certain questions that the Greeter can determine the answers to by looking at the tickets or certain codes shown on the display on the Greeter side of the turnstile.

I have had situations where the identification has failed and the holders were unable to answer any of the quesitons correctly and I confiscated the tickets, turned the tickets in to my supervisor, and Security was notified.

 

[MisunderstoodLilo]

DON'T DO IT!!!

I agree!!!

 

[SUSIEQ]

And the old two finger method looked at structure, the current one finger method does record a partial print the first time the ticket is used and looks for the same partial print on subsequent uses.

Wow, I didn't realize the newer one finger machines were actually taking prints. Not that it makes a big difference to me, but I just didn't know that.

 

[Robo]

Wow, I didn't realize the newer one finger machines were actually taking prints. Not that it makes a big difference to me, but I just didn't know that.

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[minie_meese]

I think the finger scan rumor came from a post that talked about replacing magnetic strips on passes with bar codes. I think people assumed the finger scan biometric data is stored on the ticket (and not on the central database which it is) and since a printed bar codes will not store the biometrics, the conclusion was that finger scans are going away. Faulty logic.