Originally Posted By SafariRob People auctioning portions of their hopper passes My wife and I plan to take our three boys to Disneyland next month for just one day. (We’re taking a longer trip in January when it is less crowded.) It is not very economical to go for just one day but it is what it is. Interested in saving some money we checked EBAY. We noticed that EBAY is full of auctions where people seem to be offering part of their own hopper tickets. They want your cell number and the tickets back at the end of the day. Sounds kind of shady to me but there are a lot of people doing it. You can save a lot of money doing this but it makes me nervous. Has anyone tried it? What has your experience been? Would you recommend it?
Originally Posted By trekkeruss Passes of any kind are non-transferable. Although the likelyhood of getting caught using someone else's partially used pass is probably very low, if you are caught, you've lost whatever you paid. I'd only recommend it if you're don't mind gambling and cheating.
Originally Posted By davewasbaloo Agreed. Either look into paying full price, or if you are going back in January, then maybe annual passes would work well for your family. Hoppers are non transferable, they also expire in a short period, and you would have to maintain a close relationship with the seller. Definately not worth it for me. Better to save up and go when you can aford it, or pay the prices.
Originally Posted By LuLu Do the parkhoppers bought online expire 14 days after first use? I believe they used to differ from Main Gate tickets in this regard. If this is still true, you could purchase parkhoppers with enough days to cover both your visits. Or, you could purchase APs!
Originally Posted By trekkeruss Doesn't matter where the passes are purchased, they still expire... and it's 13 days after the first use, not 14.
Originally Posted By gottaluvdavillains The people wanting the tickets back at the end of the day are usually brokering the tickets they but a 5 day pass for current price - then they sell each day for slightly less than a one day admission - So lets say a 5 day is $200 - they will and they are selling each day for $60 they are making a $100 profit off each ticket and they usually are selling multiple tickets!! My sister and her friend were each going to DL last February - My sister got there on wed went to dl thurs-sat. She had bought her tickets on Getawaytoday and they were 6 day passes. Her friend arrived Sat night and they all went to dinner at the McDonalds and my sister gave the tickets to here friend and they went to the park Sun-Tues. Was this cheating, well yes - they split the cost of the tickets evenly so there really was no profit but they both ended up with discounted tickets. Now she feels this was okay because she stayed at the DL hotel ate in the parks and bought souvinears (as she could afford the vaca) her friend stayed off property in a cheap motel not near the park, packed food for the day and bought her kids souvinears at the walmart near the park and was barely able to afford that - My sister felt this was a good way to do it since her friends kids had never been and probably wouldn't have the chance again for a long time.
Originally Posted By SafariRob It's a shame that Disney's policies have forced people to resort to tactics such as this. I'm not defending what people are doing on EBAY and the like but I can see why it is being done. The single-day passes are transferable but the multi-day passes aren't? Yes, I get the economics of it but it's still a drag for people who want to go for just one day. $66 for a single day non-hopper is absurd.
Originally Posted By SafariRob YOU'RE KIDDING!!! What about when someone buys a few tickets and ends up with some extra? They are not allowed to sell them? I am not talking about sharing a single-day pass with someone...that would be impossible because them stamp them. I am talking about selling your extra single-day, unused tickets. That is illegal? That cannot be.
Originally Posted By davewasbaloo It is indeed. That is a part of the discount. What you are suggesting would be like going to an all you can eat, taking home a doggy bag and selling the contents to someone else. The hoppers are cheaper than day tickets to encourage people to go to the resort for longer durations.
Originally Posted By LuLu I'm not sure that selling an unused 1-day ticket is illegal. I certainly don't consider it immoral, at any rate! However, I did once have someone give me hopper passes with unused days on them, and I couldn't use them. I knew it wouldn't be right. But really, Disney isn't "forcing" people to resort to tactics like reselling days of a multi-day pass. That's obviously wrong.
Originally Posted By davewasbaloo Under law, there are terms and conditions n using hopper passes. If someone was really anal, they could argue that it is a breach of contract to sell the residual days therefore being a broken law - civil as opposed to criminal. But I am going on UK law, don't know what it would be in California.
Originally Posted By 8 ilovemickey 8 You can sell extra unused hoppers. But once it has been used then that person is the only one who can use it for the rest of the days.
Originally Posted By Darkbeer I can tell you that Disney, along with the Anaheim Police have been running stings and watching over the entrance areas of the parks, especially the Pedestrian areas for scalpers. I have seen some get detained and turned over to the Anaheim Police recently. Also, if you notice, the eBay sellers ALWAYS block out the actual ticket number (bar code), because Disney does search eBay and will void any ticket they can identify by its number. Why, because it is against the terms of the ticket, aka non-transferable.
Originally Posted By davewasbaloo And it is this sort of behaviour that led to biometric scanners being introduced in the WDW parks. Money that then came from inflated ticket prices and did not go on attractions or service improvements.
Originally Posted By SafariRob What I meant was this. If I buy three single-day tickets and only use two of them, how can it be illegal to sell the third? By the way, when did WDW start using biometric scanners? Sounds like that would pretty-much eliminate fraud if people have to scan their finger print before entering. That also eliminates the fear of a lost multi-day ticket. Interesting. Any talk about bringing that out west?
Originally Posted By darcy-becker I don't think it would be illegal to sell the third as long as you sell if for face value.
