According to The Orange County Register, Disneyland has been revoking annual passes of passholders who buy park merchandise, then resell the items to individuals or online.
Santa Alien Popcorn Buckets sell out quickly in Disneyland and Disney World
The Orange County Register states that this news is “according to observers and people who say it happened to them.”
The report continues that “observers say that Disney appears to have aggressively targeted these resellers, canceling their annual passes under a provision in the passholder contract that bans people from using their discounts and then reselling items they purchased inside the parks.”
Holiday Mickey Light Up Straw
Individual accounts, specifically those of guests who operated personal shopping businesses, can be read here. The article also discusses those referred to as flippers —“someone who buys items on spec and then resells on auction sites.”
The Orange County Resister contacted Disney for comment and received the following response: “Park Rules and Annual Pass Terms and Conditions are in place to help protect the experience for all of our Guests.”
Presumably, part of protecting the experience for all guests by such measures may keep incredibly sought after items from being purchased in large quantities for the sole purpose of reselling.
Rose Gold Minnie Ears were incredibly popular — and sold out numerous times — in Disney World and Disneyland in 2017 and 2018.
While purchase limits are often placed on items which Disney anticipates being exceptionally popular, often these limits are set per transaction (as opposed to per individual), and those with a goal of reselling may not be deterred by making multiple transactions.
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Source: The Orange County Register
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Good for Disney! Personally, I think it’s great. I can’t count the number of times I’ve been excited to purchase a new item, only for it to be sold out. I’ve then found it sold on websites like eBay for triple the price.
Good for them!
Bravo! It’s unfair to get to a Festival early on and items are already sold out.
Sounds like a great idea!
Good! That’s the way it should be
I think it’s great. Maybe I will be able to find some passholder merchandise now.
One of the better things if this is really happening
Good Lord people, Disney is doing this because of their greed and nothing else. If Disney runs out of anything it’s Disney’s fault and no one else’s
Excellent! I can’t count the times we could not get a special pin or an event specific souvenir, only to get home and see them available on eBay from multiple sellers. Hope they apply this to Disney World passholders too! GO Disney!
Disney’s biggest problem is that they allow a limit of 10 on items when they should allow no more than 2 per guest such as the popcorn cups pop figures Etc . They do that with Dooney bags and all the scalpers bring their friends and make the limited edition stuff sell out. Household Disney is being hypocrite when they allow the scalpers to raid the character warehouses and buy a limit 10 of everything that’s any good and I’ve seen people walk out with pallets of stuff and you know that they are scalpers. But the employees there say they love those type of people so they don’t have to restock the shelves and it’s less work for them.
Yes! I would hope they could “weed out” those one-time sellers who may have decided an item wasn’t for them, as opposed to the serial sellers. But, it will be nice to finally have a chance at some merchandise, for once!
I wish WDW would adopt same policy! Just came back and was unable to buy (for my own use) at least 3 different items. Actually said to a CM that social media is killing part of the experience. He agreed!
I’m glad about this! It finally cracks down on people who will get a discounted item and sell it for triple the price. It sucks. I have a passholder/old family friend who will pick things up for my family and I. She uses her discount to give us things we can’t get here in Indiana. It’s a bummer when she’ll go look for something for us only to find out flippers wiped the Sheldon clean.
I 100% agree with it, I saw a holiday popcorn bucket listed for sale for $75.00. It’s pure greedz
Very happy about this. Hate when items like this are unavailable in the Parks because of flippers.
I’m glad they are doing something. I sadly couldn’t get a Cogsworth or Lumier from the live action Beauty and the Beast collection and now they are triple the price on eBay.