When can you add extra days to tickets?

[supersnoop]

Never-used tickets have always been transferable.

I guess I don't understand your specific question.

The advice perpetuated on this board has always been to use a ticket first to lock in the value so it could be bridged. You seem to be supporting the statement that using a ticket is not required in order to bridge it to the current gate price. My understanding has been that Disney doesn't want to upgrade a ticket that isn't going to be immediately used, and this "new" information contradicts that idea.

So, to simplify my question: Can I "bridge" upgrade an unused ticket, and still save it for later?

 

[Robo]

The advice perpetuated on this board has always been to use a ticket first to lock in the value so it could be bridged.
A. You seem to be supporting the statement that using a ticket is not required in order to bridge it to the current gate price.
B. My understanding has been that Disney doesn't want to upgrade a ticket that isn't going to be immediately used,
C. and this "new" information contradicts that idea.

So, to simplify my question:

D. Can I "bridge" upgrade an unused ticket, and still save it for later?

A. I'm not supporting anything. I'm only saying that a current ticket CM will be willing to do the upgrade.
B. I think that you are making a statement about price-bridging that is not accurate.
I've never heard that Disney didn't want to upgrade a ticket that was not going to be used on
the same trip as the upgrade.

But... Based on information from the late, great Cheshire Figment (who also was a WDW ticket CM,) whose "Everything about WDW Tickets" was a benchmark on this forum for years:
The reason a third-party ticket needs to be used before it is price-bridged is...
BEFORE it is used, it is considered a 'trade-in' ticket and it is "worth" only what the third-party seller
paid Disney for the ticket (I don't see how that is fair to the guest, but that's what was said for years, and also what actually HAPPENED to a number of unfortunate guests who have tried to upgrade unused third party tickets over the years,
whose stories have become legend on this board.)

C. I don't see any "new" information.
What I do see is that ravenclawtrekkie, a current WDW ticket CM will do the price-bridge without the third-party ticket being used first. (See the quote below.)
The procedure can be done manually by any ticket CM.
The problem is that ravenclawtrekkie may or may not be in the booth when you are trying to do an upgrade of a third-party ticket.
And, unless ravenclawtrekkie somehow gets to train every ticket CM at WDW, I'm not sure that I trust all of them (well, no, I surely DON'T trust all of them) to do the price-bridge.
D. You can, if you find ravenclawtrekkie to do the upgrade.
(And, I am only a little bit kidding.)

Getting the correct pricing on an upgrade of package or discounted tickets is dependent on the CM knowing how to do their job, not on whether or not the ticket has been used. The procedure is the same either way.

I will die on this hill.

 

[supersnoop]

BEFORE it is used, it is considered a 'trade-in' ticket and it is "worth" only what the third-party seller
paid Disney for the ticket

This seems to be the part that everyone swears by.

will do the price-bridge without the third-party ticket being used first.

And this seems to be the "new information."

I will die on this hill.

I really wish you'd come back to clarify.

 

[bumbershoot]

The reason a third-party ticket needs to be used before it is price-bridged is...
BEFORE it is used, it is considered a 'trade-in' ticket and it is "worth" only what the third-party seller
paid Disney for the ticket (I don't see how that is fair to the guest, but that's what was said for years, and also what actually HAPPENED to a number of unfortunate guests who have tried to upgrade unused third party tickets over the years,
whose stories have become legend on this board.)

C. I don't see any "new" information.
What I do see is that ravenclawtrekkie, a current WDW ticket CM will do the price-bridge without the third-party ticket being used first. (

Right after "I don't see any 'new' information" you posted the new information.

Or perhaps you see it as something new someone will do?

But RCT is saying that she will die on the hill of it making no difference before or after use, and that IMO is new info. If she's going by preference, OK it's preference. But if she's saying that that is what her internal info tells her (from the computer system not from her brain), then that's NEW.