Why multi-day tickets nontransferable?

[jagson]

Why?

 

[vicki_c]

Why?

Because that is Disney's rule. Resale of those partially used tickets is against the law in Florida.

 

[jagson]

Because that is Disney's rule. Resale of those partially used tickets is against the law in Florida.

I didn't say resale, I said "why non-transferable". What if I justed wanted to give the balance of my multi day tickets to a relative, friend, stranger? Why can't I, other than its "Disney's rule". Is that even legal?

 

[disneynutz]

Why?

Because Disney is in the business to make money and not allowing you to transfer your tickets/passes increases their profit.

Bill

 

[jco_direwolf]

I didn't say resale, I said "why non-transferable". What if I justed wanted to give the balance of my multi day tickets to a relative, friend, stranger? Why can't I, other than its "Disney's rule". Is that even legal?

It's not a ticket its a license to enter the park a number of times. There was some media about it when MB started apparently Disney had special law passed in Florida trying to cover just theme park tickets. And when they started to do magicbands it seems the lawyers where afraid weren't covered by the license law.

And yes its a 100% to prevent ticket sharing. To protect their revenue stream.

 

[DebbieB]

Because multi-day tickets are front loaded for cost. 10 days is not 1 day x 10. Once you get to 4 or 5 days, the additional days are much less, they want you to stay as long as possible. But in return, the same person has to use all the days.

 

[WilsonFlyer]

Because multi-day tickets are front loaded for cost. 10 days is not 1 day x 10. Once you get to 4 or 5 days, the additional days are much less, they want you to stay as long as possible. But in return, the same person has to use all the days.

This. Exactly.

 

[DizBub]

Because multi-day tickets are front loaded for cost. 10 days is not 1 day x 10. Once you get to 4 or 5 days, the additional days are much less, they want you to stay as long as possible. But in return, the same person has to use all the days.

This and.....

People used to buy multi-day tickets and use 1 or 2 days and then sell them to tourists looking for a cheaper way to visit the parks. You could buy these tickets on almost any street corner/gas station in the area. My brother actually bit on one of these deals but the catch was he had to sit through a off-site timeshare presentation.....a really bad/scary experience, they held him "hostage" in a locked room for about 5 hours. All he wanted to do was go to Epcot.

On some level I think they are trying to stop the reselling of tickets for business purposes but also agree that Disney wants to keep all the $ to themselves. OTOH we have old non-expiring tickets that we would love to let our grandkids use since we get APs these days. Don't know why it matters since they have their money up front.

 

[drusba]

Because that is Disney's rule. Resale of those partially used tickets is against the law in Florida.

As to the legal point, the law does not prevent transfer of mutli-day tickets per se. Unused multi-day tickets, even if marked non-transferable, can be legally sold or otherwise transfered as long as the sale price is not greater than $1 above the origianl ticket price. It is, however, illegal to transfer partially used multi-day tickets if the ticket specifically states on it that it is non-transferable. Disney, which was instrumental in getting the existing legal restrictions passed, attempted last spring to get a new law passed, replacing the exisitng ones, that woiuld prohibit any transfer of multi-day park tickets unless the ticket actually said it was transferable. The proposed law woukld also clarify that tickets include any medium or device and not just paper or card tickets (the existing law may have covered any medium and this point was for clarification). It informed legislators that the main reason it wanted the new law was to protect the magic bands from transfer, which at the time were still in the development phase. Thus far that attempt to get the law changed has failed.