We have LOTS of old magic bands so I didn't order any but yet they are shipping

ruadisneyfan2

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We have around 20 old magic bands in a drawer so I was planning to use the ones we used on our last trip, Dec 2019. Somehow, I just received an email saying my magic bands have shipped. I know they're charging for them and I didn't pay so how can that be?
Do DVC stays include a MB? We are doing a split stay, first at BCV booked directly through Disney and then moving to OKW for which we rented points. I didn't ask the DVC owner to order any. :scratchin
 
Some of Disney's auto-generated e-mails regarding MBs are still being sent like they were before the 2021 change, my 'guess' is that could be what is going on in your situation.
 
I thought of that too but they provided a tracking number and I can track it at USPS website. I guess I’ll find out on “Delivery Day”.
 
Sometimes they have generic bands that get sent out if you don't opt for purchasing the premium ones I think?
 

They announced they were not doing that anymore, which is why OP is confused see

Sorry. Things and announcements are constantly changing with all the COVID restrictions, it's hard to keep up (for me anyway).

Disregard OP, clearly I wasn't aware.
 
Sorry. Things and announcements are constantly changing with all the COVID restrictions, it's hard to keep up (for me anyway).

Disregard OP, clearly I wasn't aware.
Autocorrect inserted the “see” at the end, which made that sound snarky and/or like a 1920s gangster movie (I intended neither) 😐 Apologies!
 
Some of Disney's auto-generated e-mails regarding MBs are still being sent like they were before the 2021 change, my 'guess' is that could be what is going on in your situation.
Or grey ones might show up for free (and arrive after you're in Orlando lol - this happened to us last month).

@ruadisneyfan2 it sounds like Disney IT at work again :).
(meaning they shouldn't still be sending them, but sporadically still are anyway)
 
When is the trip? Was any part of your split stay booked before June 2020? That was the cutoff for complimentary MBs. Our stay was Jan '21 and we still received free MBs because it was booked prior to June '20. Still... some guests outside that criteria have gotten them. Glitch maybe.
 
When is the trip? Was any part of your split stay booked before June 2020? That was the cutoff for complimentary MBs. Our stay was Jan '21 and we still received free MBs because it was booked prior to June '20. Still... some guests outside that criteria have gotten them. Glitch maybe.
No we booked late February. We arrive next weekend.
 
Or grey ones might show up for free (and arrive after you're in Orlando lol - this happened to us last month).

@ruadisneyfan2 it sounds like Disney IT at work again :).
(meaning they shouldn't still be sending them, but sporadically still are anyway)
:laughing::laughing:

If they show up before we leave, I'll bring them just in case there's some glitch with our old ones.
Disney is a little glitchy lately. :goodvibes
 
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:laughing::laughing:

If they show up before we leave, I'll bring them just in case there's some glitch with our old ones.
Disney is a little glitchy lately. :goodvibes
It all just cracks me up sometimes :)
(Had I known we were getting them, I would have coughed up the $5 for the pretty new colors heehee)

Let us know what happens!
 
If for some reason they do show up you can put the new pucks in your old bands if there is any special one you want to use. ....
I'm guessing there is some kinda glitch in the system it's not very magic like to get peoples Hope's up.
 
I went to WDW at the end of February and about a week and a half before we left I got an email saying that my Magic Bands had shipped. I didn't order any magic bands and I had booked after they announced there would be no more Magic Bands. So I was a little surprised at the email. The bands didn't arrive before we left and arrived 2 days after we returned home. The bands are the plain gray ones. We never got charged for them, so next trip I guess I'll use them. My guess is they might have some extra gray bands they are trying to get rid of.
 
We have a September trip planned and they shipped Magic Bands for it back in January.
 
I got my Magic Bands 10 days after making the final payment on our trip commencing in two weeks. The reservation was from last summer, so we had free Bands offered in multiple colors.

Even though we asked for 4 different colors for the 4 of us, they shipped us only the grey. And when I called to ask them to correct the order, they offered to try again but only if I would pay $5 for each band which I thought was inappropriate considering my $10K spend at a Deluxe so I decided to run with the grey.
 












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