Stupid Guest Tricks

NemoRanger wrote:I am so amazed that people can ramble on and say so many things about colons and other punctuation marks.

Who wants to talk italics, underlining and quotes??? :D:

I don't mind reading grammatical discussion, but in terms of rambling on about something myself, I'd rather gripe about passive voice, or wonder whether writing The Hunger Games in first person, present tense was the best choice.

Okay, so from what I've gathered from this thread:
-the corporation determined that persons redeeming unused parts of tickets purchased by others represented a loss of revenue, and
-this loss of revenue was sufficient to institute biometric association of the ticket and the purchaser, with all the accompanying irritation to everyone involved and all the equipment expenses.

From this I've concluded that The Disney Corporation is not any different than any other corporation that's run by soulless gray minions of The Bottom Line.

The only things that make it different from all the other enterprises dedicated to separating people from their money is the Cast Members. I salute you all.

mkemp wrote:Okay, so from what I've gathered from this thread:
-the corporation determined that persons redeeming unused parts of tickets purchased by others represented a loss of revenue, and
-this loss of revenue was sufficient to institute biometric association of the ticket and the purchaser, with all the accompanying irritation to everyone involved and all the equipment expenses.

From this I've concluded that The Disney Corporation is not any different than any other corporation that's run by soulless gray minions of The Bottom Line.

The only things that make it different from all the other enterprises dedicated to separating people from their money is the Cast Members. I salute you all.

I suppose you are correct...that is what they are...a soulless group of minions. I can't help but thinking that lack of that type of overview results in a lot of empty fields where fun attractions used to be. Contrary to popular belief, Disney does not operate on Pixie Dust alone. Very few suppliers or employee's (in this case CM's) will accept a bucket of dust as payment. They are very upfront about their intentions. They sell tickets to run the parks. They also sell tickets to be used by one person, also up front about that. Suppose they only offered single day tickets...would there be much in the line of other users? No! Probably none! So they sell multiple day tickets at discounted prices to make it easier for us and increase their own immediate cash flow and their overall cash flow from other sales that go along with longer visits. Still can't find anything wrong with that.

Goofyernmost wrote:I suppose you are correct...that is what they are...a soulless group of minions. I can't help but thinking that lack of that type of overview results in a lot of empty fields where fun attractions used to be. Contrary to popular belief, Disney does not operate on Pixie Dust alone. Very few suppliers or employee's (in this case CM's) will accept a bucket of dust as payment. They are very upfront about their intentions. They sell tickets to run the parks. They also sell tickets to be used by one person, also up front about that. Suppose they only offered single day tickets...would there be much in the line of other users? No! Probably none! So they sell multiple day tickets at discounted prices to make it easier for us and increase their own immediate cash flow and their overall cash flow from other sales that go along with longer visits. Still can't find anything wrong with that.

And as a stock holder, I appreciate them maximizing the profit so that they can pay a dividend and still make great improvements to the place I like to vacation at the most. And it WAS a big business and Disney was losing revenue. It CLEARLY states on the tickets that they are non-transferrable. And Disney using technology to enforce that makes perfect sense to me. If you don't like the ticket price and think it's too high, don't go. There are several other theme park destinations to go to in Orlando and across the USA.

mkemp wrote:Okay, so from what I've gathered from this thread:
-the corporation determined that persons redeeming unused parts of tickets purchased by others represented a loss of revenue, and
-this loss of revenue was sufficient to institute biometric association of the ticket and the purchaser, with all the accompanying irritation to everyone involved and all the equipment expenses.

From this I've concluded that The Disney Corporation is not any different than any other corporation that's run by soulless gray minions of The Bottom Line.

The only things that make it different from all the other enterprises dedicated to separating people from their money is the Cast Members. I salute you all.

Of course, an alternate read on this is that Disney, like most other entertainment venues, decided that their tickets should be non-transferable, and so many people abused and violated that contract that they were forced to implement a fairly expensive system to pair tickets with biometric information to keep people from violating the terms of sale. So the people who can't be trusted to behave ethically cause increased cost and inconvenience for the rest, and leave CMs to overcome any negatives through good customer service. :D:

Whether it's theft of goods or services, the consumer is going to pick up the added expense. :mad:

The bottom line is...

well, the bottom line.

despite a guest's overall enthuaism for the parks, the corporation still must make an amount of money for overhead, and of course, share holders.

like other posters have pointed out. theft is theft. stealing an item from a store, or a ticket at the gate, it is still theft.

don't berate Disney for protecting its income.