Originally Posted By SIR at X-S Tech I think they've just started doing this. They'll take the photos from your digital camera and burn them to a CD for you, to clear up your memory card- for a measly $11.95! Can you believe what a rip off that is? Most places like Savon that do this charge about $5 dollars and even that seems expensive considering the cost of a CD, but you allow something for the service, but man this is overboard. Anyway this sort of gouging gets to me and I just thought I'd vent.
Originally Posted By trekkeruss I'd say $11.95 is a lot cheaper than having to buy a new memory card... and I can't imagine what Disney charges for those things. So look at it as an emergancy service... well worth the cost if you need it, IMO.
Originally Posted By SIR at X-S Tech Cheaper than a memory card, but not nearly as good a value. But yes, better than nothing in an emergency.
Originally Posted By wahooskipper For those of you not old enough to remember...there use to be this thing called film. Anyway, if you were smart you would always make sure you had several rolls prior to going into the park because it was WAY more expensive. Well, the same principle holds true here.
Originally Posted By trekkeruss Which is partly to explain why the prices are expensive. Most people ARE smart enough and bring enough film (or memory cards.) That being the case, it costs Disney a lot of money to stock film and memory cards that are less to be sold. Retailers want merchandise that moves, not sits on a shelf.
Originally Posted By tinkerbell77 Well I am one of those people who forgot to pack extra memory cards. And let me just say that I Paid a pretty penny for a new one in DL. Even my kids were shocked.But I learned a great lesson, never forget your memory card. So I am one of those people who would love a CD burning service for only 11.95!!!! But I agree it is still a rip off. But I love DL and will always have way to many memory cards from now on.
Originally Posted By SIR at X-S Tech If you are visiting DL and have your own car, it would be worth the effort to go down a few blocks to Target and pick up a new memory card- assuming you realize it before you enter the park.
Originally Posted By trekkeruss Pick up and leave the park, take the tram over to the parking structure, get in the car, drive to Target, spend 10 minutes getting it and checking out, drive back to the parking sructure, take the tram, and re-enter? That's a minimum of one hour out of the park to save $7.00. My time in the park is worth more than that.
Originally Posted By trekkeruss <<assuming you realize it before you enter the park.>> My mind didn't read that part... my bad.
Originally Posted By SIR at X-S Tech The cheapskate in me might even do it even after I was in the park, but maybe not.
Originally Posted By Autopia Deb If they had this service at WDW and I knew about it in advance, I would have definately popped for it. I take large format pics so I generally bring a bunch of cards and a laptop so I can empty the cards when they get full. It would have been worth it to spend $12 to not have to haul that laptop with me. Since I'm from SoCal, I don't think I'd bother at D-land. But if I were from another part of the country spending a week at Disneyland, yep worth it. But only because I take Gigabytes worth of pics on these big Disney trips. And btw, I'm one of those "squeeze a dollar 'til the eagle screams" types.
Originally Posted By alexbook You can save a few bucks by trudging out to Compass Books's newsstand in DTD. You can probably save even more by hiking to the SavOn Drugs on Katella. Or you can jump in your car and drive to WalMart.
Originally Posted By tuknshak We were just on a two week vacation and drug our laptop with us just to dump pictures on to it. If our resort ahd offered a Cd for $12 I would have paid for it to save myself draggin the laptop with us. Yes it is somewhat overpriced but so are churos!
Originally Posted By deadmentellnotales kind of a rip, I can't fanthom the need for it, since there's a target just down the street and most memory cards don't cost too much these days, heck I bought a 1 gig card for my cam in dec for 65 dollars about four times what disney would charge that 1100 pics + I can reuse it once I burn it to cd myself when I get home.
Originally Posted By debtee I think this is a good idea, as we drag our laptop with us across the world from Australia to make sure we can load our pix into it as I hate leaving them on the stick in case something happens to them and we lose the lot! I would pay that money for sure to have a solid CD in my hands! My memory stick is a 1GB so it holds more pix then I can ever take anyway but I still don't like leaving them just sitting around in the camera. We never have a car with us when we travel to the resort so just going down the road to Target is more hassal. I think international guests are going to use this service heaps!
Originally Posted By deadmentellnotales if you have a laptop why not just burn the photos at the hotel on it?
Originally Posted By Autopia Deb That's what I end up doing when I go to Disney World. I would rather pay $12 once or twice and leave the laptop at home.
Originally Posted By debtee ^ well yes we did that on our last trip but using this service means we won't have to bring the laptop with us at all, one less thing to carry on board, we hardly used the laptop last time as we used the pc in the concierge lounge to check emails etc.
