Returning Tickets

[foreverducky]

I had someone ask me the other day if someone wanted to get a refund on some tickets they bought prior to a trip and had not used them, would they be able to? Thanks

[5thtrip2007]

Do you mean admission tickets? I believe but am not 100% sure, they are non refundable.

[JuniorMickey]

Unless you get a CM who goes out of their way, they're non-refundable but you can hold onto them for a future trip

[foreverducky]

that's what i thought, thanks :D

[KerryAtter]

We had this a lot from those dubious people who hang around near restaurants trying to sell timeshares or something - they were particularly interested in the Brits...

[littlestars]

The day we were leaving we went out for breakfast and there was a man at the door trying to sell us tickets.... When we told him we were leaving that day he offered to buy our unused or open-ended tickets back from us and the people we had travelled with?
Don't know what he was planning to do with them :unsure:

[Midnight Storm]

They will sell them on - a 10 day ticket works out a whole lot less per day than buying a single day admission - so if they buy it off you for a 10th of its cost ($18) with one day left it is worth $73 to someone who is just wanting a single day - more profit for them than the small percentage in selling a new unused ticket, and I guess a small saving for the buyer. Against the rules and possibly the law but only if you get caught.

[OKWTink]

It is a terrible situation. It is against the law, but since as you can see, they set up on main highways and in broad daylight, there isn't anyone going out of their way to arrest them.

I can't tell you how many newsreports we have here on the local that talk about families being bilked out of hundreds of dollars on useless tickets.

Quite often those "buy your last couple of days off ya'" don't work. If the CM at the gate to any WDW park gets any hint of the ticket being one of those hot resales they will confiscate it (I've seen them do it) and can confiscate all the other tickets in the party.

Whatever you do, walk right past those thieves, and never buy your tickets anywhere but from a reputable dealer.

[KerryAtter]

They will sell them on - a 10 day ticket works out a whole lot less per day than buying a single day admission - so if they buy it off you for a 10th of its cost ($18) with one day left it is worth $73 to someone who is just wanting a single day - more profit for them than the small percentage in selling a new unused ticket, and I guess a small saving for the buyer. Against the rules and possibly the law but only if you get caught.

How do they get around the fact that the people have their fingerprints on the system?

[OKWTink]

Not sure. They used to not have to worry about that. I am guessing, but I'd imagine that WDW has a much more efficient way of determing true ownership now. Seems like it's a set up to lose your money. :(

[KerryAtter]

It is a terrible situation. It is against the law, but since as you can see, they set up on main highways and in broad daylight, there isn't anyone going out of their way to arrest them.

I can't tell you how many newsreports we have here on the local that talk about families being bilked out of hundreds of dollars on useless tickets.

Quite often those "buy your last couple of days off ya'" don't work. If the CM at the gate to any WDW park gets any hint of the ticket being one of those hot resales they will confiscate it (I've seen them do it) and can confiscate all the other tickets in the party.

Whatever you do, walk right past those thieves, and never buy your tickets anywhere but from a reputable dealer.

Wow that's really bad! We were approached regularly, in fact there was an 'office' in the IHOP so I kind of thought that it would be legitimate (although we never even considered it). That's quite shocking.

[OKWTink]

It amazes me to no end. Those places that get you to take a timeshare tour are legitimate, but I don't know how those resale places get away with it. Nor do I have any idea at all why legitimate businesses let them set up on their premises!

There was a huge expose done a few years back and they disappeared (to an extent) but now they are back in full force.

I always thought it was pretty odd that WDW didn't put serious pressure on law enforcement to bring this whole thing under control. :confused:

[lizzx10r]

I am glad that we have DDP this year. I get fed up with every time you go to the likes of Sizzler, etc and get hassled from these people.