Originally Posted By vbdad55 when we were just there we were only 'asked' to use the finger scanning about 50% of the time -- the other times the tickets just went through and the light turned green
Originally Posted By ChiMike >>On the last day, some of them still had a day left on their ticket. My husband used the other dad's ticket at EPCOT. He put his first two fingers in the scanner, and had no problem using the ticket, even though a different person had used it a few days earlier.<< Another site says that tickets purchased in sequence, e.g. ticket no 100001 and ticket no 100002, can be swapped with no consequence. The reasoning is to speed things up with parties who purchased their tickets together and mixed up each own's tickets at the gate. Person A's scan will work for Person B's ticket and vice versa.
Originally Posted By SuperDry <<< Another site says that tickets purchased in sequence, e.g. ticket no 100001 and ticket no 100002, can be swapped with no consequence. The reasoning is to speed things up with parties who purchased their tickets together and mixed up each own's tickets at the gate. Person A's scan will work for Person B's ticket and vice versa. >>> I had always wondered about that. Quite a clever solution! Somebody had their sorcerer's apprentice thinking cap on.
Originally Posted By TDLFAN >>The scanners are not 100% fullproof.<< Doesn't surprise me since 50% of the time, they do not work, which means 150% loss of time for guests who are delayed at the turnstyles when the system fails... which is opften enough to be concidered a gimmick, rather than a security measure.
Originally Posted By crazyformickey The first day in the park I had to replace my son and daughter's ticket the machine wouldn't read it. The next day their grandma had to replace hers. Most of the time we had to do the scan when I was at the park. Slightly off topic but while in MK on Friday there were just handing out bracelets for EMH without looking at my room key. They didn't even put it on just handed me 4. I was told just trying to get the line going faster. Nice to know that night you don't need to be a resport guest to stay. I thought it was too crowded.
Originally Posted By vbdad55 <The first day in the park I had to replace my son and daughter's ticket the machine wouldn't read it. The next day their grandma had to replace hers. Most of the time we had to do the scan when I was at the park. < did you have the tickets near a cell phone ? There is an issue lately with magnetic cards clearing when stored next to a cell phone -- the check in at OKW informed us when we arrived not to store the door passes next to our cell phones also...... anyone else know more about this ?
Originally Posted By Kennesaw Tom Yes my park pass got wipped clean too as I was keeping my park pass in my digital camera bag ( next to the digital camera). Not a big issue. My resort issued me a new park pass which I kept in my wallet instead.
Originally Posted By sun-n-fun Good to know. Thanks! As obvious as it seems, I'm not sure I would have thought of that.
Originally Posted By Kennesaw Tom I don't understand how a digital camera can wipe a pass clean. Maybe it was the batteries?
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Originally Posted By vbdad55 <I don't understand how a digital camera can wipe a pass clean. Maybe it was the batteries< I think there is a low level current always flowing in the digital equipment - phones and cameras-- and that is the cause -- I had a hotel room key wipe out after being in my pocket with my cell phone also.....the radiation from GSM type phones may be the cause of a scramble -- I would defer to someone with more knowledge than me though
Originally Posted By SweetieangelM14 I just came back about a week ago. I hated their system. It takes forever to have people put in their fingers and wait for it to be accepted. That's another reason why I like Disneyland better.
Originally Posted By ssWEDguy >> It takes forever to have people put in their fingers and wait for it to be accepted. << It doesn't take forever. Are you talking about the three-finger system that's been in place for a while? Or the newer one-finger system? And hating a system like this is like hating virus checkers on computers that you have to pay for too. For the sake of the people who break the rules. Don't blame the virus checker.
Originally Posted By vbdad55 ^^^ I have to agree more with the delay issue-- the finger system does seem to have a lot of problems reading....having just been there 10 days I would say 75% of the time there were issues reading at least one of our families scans -- then the gate doesn't open, and they have people at the gate goingback and forth trying to clear and have you try again ( and sometimes again and again) - before they finally say- just go thru -- I haveno problem with the system as a concept-- I have a serious issue with it's performance currently though -- fix the performance and I am fine with it
Originally Posted By vbdad55 If my virus blocker erred as much as the finger scan, I would change to another virus blocker....thankfully it doesn;t
Originally Posted By ssWEDguy >> the finger system does seem to have a lot of problems reading << >> If my virus blocker erred as much as the finger scan, I would change to another virus blocker << I understand, and I agree with you. It's just that this new system is the one that we've heard about that is supposed to be "10 times faster, easier, and more accurate than the old system." Are you saying this number might be a little high?
Originally Posted By Spirit of 74 The Spirit loves the bio scanners. It's great to see 143 people lined up at one turnstyle, while the green arrows are on at 2-3 others and no one is using them. So then the Spirit moves like a ghost to the empty one drawing dirty looks (and sometimes unmagical comments) ... tourists can be so slow.
Originally Posted By vbdad55 <Are you saying this number might be a little high?< not if one was a salesman for the product, but for the end users -- yeah-- it is very overstated.....
Originally Posted By SweetieangelM14 ssWEDguy, it was my first time to WDW and I've been at Disneyland plenty of times. Disneyland doesn't use the system, so it was a pain in the butt wating forever because the system wouldn't work. It seemed like most people had a hard time with it. The system that I'm talking about is the one where you put 2 fingers in and press them together.
Originally Posted By NikkiLOVESMickey I think the system is useless because, even if you're ticket doesn't go through and you have to get your fingers rescanned, they never check IDs to verify you're the ticketholder. Once I had a problem with my AP and they rescanned me without question. Why install a system to weed out fraud if you aren't going to check for fraud when the system indicates it could be a possibility?
