Stupid Guest Tricks

Goofyernmost wrote:This is an actual list of the 1983 Ticket prices. EPCOT Ctr. had just opened up in October of 1982. Kinda shocking isn't it?



The bottom line is the ultimate understatement!

Holy price jumps, Batman! My eyes went wide as saucers when I saw those prices. It costs nearly twice as much to buy a one-day one-park ticket today than it did to buy a four day passport in 1983.

One-day ticket prices have gone up over 5 times their 1983 prices. I don't even want to know how much they've gone up since the parks first opened. One-day tickets these days costs just a little less than an annual pass did back then. If you were to adjust for inflation prices have still gone up quite a bit I bet.

You think those prices are low, it used to cost only $1 to get into Disneyland.

Of course, if you wanted to see one of the attractions, those would run you from 10 to 75 cents. Each!

NemoRanger wrote:Also these vendors off 192 that claim to sell cheap disney tickets. The tickets say non tranferable right on the ticket. Why would anybody buy a used ticket that says non transferable. To me if I saw that on a used ticket I would have red flags going off in my head.

I know a guy who falls for these sorts of scams time and time again. I've even sat him down and tried to talk him through one of them with that sort of evidence, and the scammer told him some kind of nonsense that he totally bought. He's of above average intelligence and generally sensible, but for some reason his brain turns off when he thinks he's got a way around the system.

His mom was always convinced the system was out to rip her off and crowed about the ways she'd found around it, but she was doing it with little stuff, using expired coupons and the like, and usually with the aid of some friend who was employed there. He'd do it with stuff that involved hundreds of dollars, but it was the same weird mental shift where his brain turned off when he had the supposed "opportunity" of getting something over a big corporation.

Zazu wrote:You think those prices are low, it used to cost only $1 to get into Disneyland.

Of course, if you wanted to see one of the attractions, those would run you from 10 to 75 cents. Each!

Yah, it's hard to compare historic prices, not just because of inflation, but because things have changed in other ways. If there were four parks in the early eighties, WDW tickets would have cost more, I expect. Even if someone sticks to the MK as the other parks are added, they're still paying for those new options, whether they want to or not.

shilohmm wrote:He's of above average intelligence...

There's a big difference between intelligence and smarts.

Well, considering the way he was raised, it's no wonder. Mama must be right, so therefore he listens to her, not his wiser and better-informed friend.

hobie16 wrote:There's a big difference between intelligence and smarts.

True. I get really frustrated with the guys who want to explain away poverty by invoking the heritability of I.Q., first off because educators like Marva Collins and Jaime Escalante have shown that motivation and inspiration are way more important than I.Q., and secondly because every group of Mensans I've ever run across has its fair share of pretty marginal people, financially speaking. Attitudes and beliefs seem to have much more connection to financial success than I.Q. does, but I think some guys just like the I.Q. idea because it's easier to pin down and measure.

But, despite regular evidence to the contrary, I continue to think that, if people are intellectually capable of seeing where their beliefs and assumptions are hurting them, they can step back and develop a new perspective. So I should probably cut the "I.Q. explains everything" guys a lot more slack, since they're doing the same thing in a different area. We're equally unable to admit that a person's general frailty of being human trumps brains, that's what.

NemoRanger wrote:I guess people really do not do any research before buying tickets. This is something I just do not understand. If I am going to spend hundreds if not thousands of dollars on tickets I want to be a 100 percent sure they are legit.

Buying something like tickets off craiglist just seems so risky.

Also these vendors off 192 that claim to sell cheap disney tickets. The tickets say non tranferable right on the ticket. Why would anybody buy a used ticket that says non transferable. To me if I saw that on a used ticket I would have red flags going off in my head.

Its just insane

People do this to us all the time... I scan the season pass ticket and, instead of the computer telling me to enter data, it pops up with the camera screen with the original user's smiling face. "Um, where did you buy these tickets?" "Oh, Craigslist..."

Shorty82 wrote:Holy price jumps, Batman! My eyes went wide as saucers when I saw those prices. It costs nearly twice as much to buy a one-day one-park ticket today than it did to buy a four day passport in 1983.

One-day ticket prices have gone up over 5 times their 1983 prices. I don't even want to know how much they've gone up since the parks first opened. One-day tickets these days costs just a little less than an annual pass did back then. If you were to adjust for inflation prices have still gone up quite a bit I bet.

Well, to be fair, there are two more theme parks now. :-)

If you want to be a little more shocked, I just happen to have the 1983 WDW Vacation Guide on my site:

1983 WDW Vacation Guide

If you look at the Vacation Information section, there are all sorts of interesting prices listed. How about dinner in France for $10-$16? Hoop-Dee-Doo, $17.50. River Country, $6.75. It's actually an interesting read.

As an aside, no prices, but the Disney Archives did bring some Opening Day media to the D23 WDW 40th event:

Opening Day Media

Zazu wrote:You think those prices are low, it used to cost only $1 to get into Disneyland.

And Roy Disney bought the first one. Dave Smith found it in Roy's desk.



It's from an article about the Glendale Museum. (Halfway down the page.)

So does that mean Roy was the first SG?

SG I Yam wrote: So does that mean Roy was the first SG?

I'm betting he was the first Smart Guest. ;)