I think that Disney should be more aggressive in going after resellers. Tell eBay and other sites to remove authentic Disney merch or face a lawsuit. Same with sites run by individuals. Shut down or get sued. Until Disney shuts down those avenues and does more than just ban resellers from the parks, reselling is just going to keep conituing.
How can you make a lawsuit on someone selling their own belongings, additionally eBay is not going to turn down business. The problem here yet again is Disney.
The best idea if Disney is actually serious about tackling the problem is to limit the numbers of items sold at the point of purchase. But they rarely do this, because they are greedy.
There are many ways they could fix this and one would be when you enter the park you go to a kiosk and you purchase a token for the amount of that item. If you are not planning on purchasing you can just bypass the kiosk and they can do it to where only one per pass or ticket is allowed.
Once your pass is scanned at purchase It cannot be used again for this same item. And only one again is allowed. If you use a ticket it is punched and you may not use it again to purchase that item. This way nobody can buy more than one And if you have five in your family you get five because you’ve bought tickets for all five and rightfully. You should be able to. If you only have yourself or two people you only get one or two that’s it.
They can’t. Legal precedent is LONG established that once you buy something you have the right to resell it. This is settled case law and have been for decades. The only thing they can do is block people who use discounts because that’s in violation of the ticket TOS. If they blocked everyone trying to resell though the class action suit would be immense.
I totally agree with the previous comment. There have been several times I wanted to get something only to find out they were sold out, but eBay had several of them on for outrageous amounts. I think this is a full time job for some of these people. It is sad because others like myself who want the item for ourselves can’t get it. Disney needs to find a way to stop this from happening.
This is what happens at all Disney events including D23 Expo and The Ghirardelli store in Hollywood. Including Disney Pin sales. They should limit the per family so that someone doesn’t show up with ten kids and get 10x the merchandise. They can also handout a punch card at the time of the release to limit the number of reseller lineup.
Get over it, not everyone going to a Disney theme park is a reseller there are also personal shoppers. It literally costs money to make money and Disney is not suffering in that category.
I agree, if Disney were serious they as I mentioned earlier, should limit the items quantity sold at the point of purchase.
Why should someone who has Disney merchandise and just wants to sell it for something else be penalised for selling on another platform. It is enterprise, Disney has themselves to blame, but they are making their money so why do they care?
There is a simple solution for this problem. Disney needs to stop making almost EVERYTHING “limited edition”. Just make enough for everyone. It’s really pretty disgusting that they do that. I was a BIG TIME Disney collector and I’m now totally turned off by them and don’t collect ANYTHING anymore.
Sadly that is enterprise as someone mentioned earlier, I do not like it either but that’s business they will always find a buyer.
If Disney does not like this then they can easily stop the so called problem by limiting how many one person can buy, but they do not do this or rarely do… GREED
Disney doesn’t care who buys their merchandise. As long as it is sold and the check clears. They will only do as much as it takes to keep them from getting a black eye. I love Disney but they are a company out to make as much money possible.
Longtime Disney fan but Disney does not care anymore the bottom line is the dollar. The rays ticket prices three or four times in the past two years charge overpriced for the new Star Wars Venue even though it does pay for everything at $6000 there’s not a cruise ship in the world unless you’re getting caviar and champagne tickets that they do not care Walt Disney himself is rolling over in the grave small families can’t go because they can’t afford it think about that you’ll be a long time before I go back to Disney World sad to say the happiest place on earth
I totally agree that there should be a limit of maybe 2 per family/group. Reselling needs to stop in order to make sure that there is enough product for other customers.
Limit of 2 or 1 per person in the group per visit. Lets everyone in a family get one, and doesn’t let the resellers clear the shelves. Resellers are still going to get some, but this halves the volume.
Put unique serial numbers on everything. If it is resold at a profit within say 5 years, ban them from the parks. I am not.talking the one off item that someone bought and wants to sell because they simply don’t want it, but talking the people who do this with a lot of items. And maybe Disney needs to buy ebay and then they can ban the resellers that way too. They would need to scan tickets for every purchase with this solution though.
Additionally all limited edition merchandise should be strictly mobile order only and only after entering the applicable park. The two per person limit should be two per person for these items, not two per person per day.
There are 0lenty.of ways to crack down on this that Disney has not done.
This would be not only costly but unworkable. Its not like the Disney merchandise is of good quality these days, the pop the price up, lower the quality and say limited and people buy it, crazy.
It’s Disney’s fault–by making “limited editions” of things like stuffed animals they create the demand. The resellers are just trying to pay their bills like everyone else.
Willing to bet MOST of the resellers are annual passholders (Magic Keys) who don’t mind waiting in lines for hours since they come all the time. They buy with their AP discount and resell. Why can’t the items be tracked on their annual pass? There should be a way to do this.
This right here. ^^^ Its 90% annual Passholders. Its easy to track if its tracked through their passholder ticket. Also there was a woman just recently caught doing the resale through her passholder ticket and shut down.
Oh please how easy is it to find some one selling Disney souvenirs on line. Less than 10 seconds and you have the name and address. And Disney has the name an address of nearly everyone with. Annual passes now how hard would it be to produce a list that matches. I’m saying even a hack programmer could put this together in less than an hour
Here’s a solution. Don’t buy on the secondary market. They get stuck with it. And stop buying it all because there is no market for them. Disney shouldn’t accept it back after 7 days for a refund and boom. Problem solved
These us a simple solution, stop buying stuff on eBay. There is not a single item Disney sells that you need. If everyone stopped overpaying for junk people would stop reselling.
Very simple – The ONLY way to stop resellers is to boycott them and NOT buy from them. Once this happens they WILL lower their price or get stuck with the product. Once people learn this lesson resellers will be out of business. It’s the same with any product that is overpriced- just don’t buy it
People are stupid. Stupid for buying chinese made garbage to sell to stupid people clamoring to buy it at an inflated price only to send it to goodwill in 10 years to declutter their house. It is not Disneys fault that there is a demand for their tchotchke junk. Blame the people willing to pay for the junk on Ebay.
Limit two SKUs per person lifetime, ESPECIALLY if they use their Annual Pass discount. If they happen to ruin those two, then they can buy them aftermarket (ebay, etc.). If they were buying for their family, then they can get two more by someone else buying them. If you include the children in your purchase, then they get one/child and it must fit that child (that way you can’t buy 15 adult spirit jerseys because you have a bunch of kids with you), or have to be kid appropriate (Starbucks bottles/mugs aren’t for kids!). And if people don’t like it, tough. It’s what makes it FAIR to all.
Although, I think these people are a-holes for doing this, I don’t understand people’s obsessions with having to have these items to the point of fighting over them. I’ve probably purchased only two or three of their overpriced items from a park in my whole lifetime. I have better things to spend my money on which aren’t overpriced.
Hi.
I’ve never been much for WDW merchandise.
I have purchased two Mickey ringer t-shirts, but I’d never had stood in a long line for one.
Having said that, the one story that came out a few months ago was the hours-long wait for a popcorn holder. I cannot imagine standing in line for 2-4 hours to buy something like that. Especially when they could have used that time on rides and attractions.
Could anyone possibly explain that?
A few years back, Disney had more in park mer h available for online purchase. When this stopped, these disgusting resellers grew larger. I’d Disney would open the online park Merch to more options, this would help a lot. These people need to be stopped.
Disney is many things, including a retailer. The goal of a retailer is to sell a product. Disney is doing just that. What difference does it make to them if one person is buying a bunch of merchandise all at once, or several individuals buy all their products. They are still moving merchandise. If they limit product purchases, what would a large family do when they can’t buy that last child the same shirt, toy etc. as the other children?
If you are at a restaurant and they run out of “the special” that you wanted, are you going to complain that another customer bought your dinner?
While I will agree it’s greedy and dirty what some people will do to make a buck or two, Disney should not bear the blame.
Comments for Resellers Decimate Disney Merchandise, Guests Angered After Seeing Wagons of Product Purchased
Bunnywobbles
I think that Disney should be more aggressive in going after resellers. Tell eBay and other sites to remove authentic Disney merch or face a lawsuit. Same with sites run by individuals. Shut down or get sued. Until Disney shuts down those avenues and does more than just ban resellers from the parks, reselling is just going to keep conituing.
Anna S
As much as I like that idea, I can’t help but think that someone will find some sort of loophole. But it would be a start!
Julian H
How can you make a lawsuit on someone selling their own belongings, additionally eBay is not going to turn down business. The problem here yet again is Disney.
The best idea if Disney is actually serious about tackling the problem is to limit the numbers of items sold at the point of purchase. But they rarely do this, because they are greedy.
Max
There are many ways they could fix this and one would be when you enter the park you go to a kiosk and you purchase a token for the amount of that item. If you are not planning on purchasing you can just bypass the kiosk and they can do it to where only one per pass or ticket is allowed.
Once your pass is scanned at purchase It cannot be used again for this same item. And only one again is allowed. If you use a ticket it is punched and you may not use it again to purchase that item. This way nobody can buy more than one And if you have five in your family you get five because you’ve bought tickets for all five and rightfully. You should be able to. If you only have yourself or two people you only get one or two that’s it.
Bob
They can’t. Legal precedent is LONG established that once you buy something you have the right to resell it. This is settled case law and have been for decades. The only thing they can do is block people who use discounts because that’s in violation of the ticket TOS. If they blocked everyone trying to resell though the class action suit would be immense.
Peter
AGREE!!!!!
Phil
Exactly!!! Why isn’t Disney doing what you suggested?
Debbie
I totally agree with the previous comment. There have been several times I wanted to get something only to find out they were sold out, but eBay had several of them on for outrageous amounts. I think this is a full time job for some of these people. It is sad because others like myself who want the item for ourselves can’t get it. Disney needs to find a way to stop this from happening.
Me
It sucks but this is capitalism at its core essence.
MikeS
This is what happens at all Disney events including D23 Expo and The Ghirardelli store in Hollywood. Including Disney Pin sales. They should limit the per family so that someone doesn’t show up with ten kids and get 10x the merchandise. They can also handout a punch card at the time of the release to limit the number of reseller lineup.
Angie
Get over it, not everyone going to a Disney theme park is a reseller there are also personal shoppers. It literally costs money to make money and Disney is not suffering in that category.
Roberta
They are one in the same….
Riberta
They are one in the same…..
Paul
Enterprise……
Julian H
I agree, if Disney were serious they as I mentioned earlier, should limit the items quantity sold at the point of purchase.
Why should someone who has Disney merchandise and just wants to sell it for something else be penalised for selling on another platform. It is enterprise, Disney has themselves to blame, but they are making their money so why do they care?
chuck
They can start by not selling Annual Passes to people that dont live in Florida
P Reid
There is a simple solution for this problem. Disney needs to stop making almost EVERYTHING “limited edition”. Just make enough for everyone. It’s really pretty disgusting that they do that. I was a BIG TIME Disney collector and I’m now totally turned off by them and don’t collect ANYTHING anymore.
Terra
I was thinking along the same lines. I wonder how hard it would be to attach something to the tickets where it’s 2 items per ticket?
Robert McClafferty
Just limit it to one per person/group. No exceptions. Sadly, unscrupulous people have taken advantage of Disney.
Julian H
Sadly that is enterprise as someone mentioned earlier, I do not like it either but that’s business they will always find a buyer.
If Disney does not like this then they can easily stop the so called problem by limiting how many one person can buy, but they do not do this or rarely do… GREED
Adam
Disney doesn’t care who buys their merchandise. As long as it is sold and the check clears. They will only do as much as it takes to keep them from getting a black eye. I love Disney but they are a company out to make as much money possible.
Robert Bickle
Longtime Disney fan but Disney does not care anymore the bottom line is the dollar. The rays ticket prices three or four times in the past two years charge overpriced for the new Star Wars Venue even though it does pay for everything at $6000 there’s not a cruise ship in the world unless you’re getting caviar and champagne tickets that they do not care Walt Disney himself is rolling over in the grave small families can’t go because they can’t afford it think about that you’ll be a long time before I go back to Disney World sad to say the happiest place on earth
Deolinda
I totally agree that there should be a limit of maybe 2 per family/group. Reselling needs to stop in order to make sure that there is enough product for other customers.
Arioch Xiombarg
Limit of 2 or 1 per person in the group per visit. Lets everyone in a family get one, and doesn’t let the resellers clear the shelves. Resellers are still going to get some, but this halves the volume.
Chris
Put unique serial numbers on everything. If it is resold at a profit within say 5 years, ban them from the parks. I am not.talking the one off item that someone bought and wants to sell because they simply don’t want it, but talking the people who do this with a lot of items. And maybe Disney needs to buy ebay and then they can ban the resellers that way too. They would need to scan tickets for every purchase with this solution though.
Additionally all limited edition merchandise should be strictly mobile order only and only after entering the applicable park. The two per person limit should be two per person for these items, not two per person per day.
There are 0lenty.of ways to crack down on this that Disney has not done.
Julian H
This would be not only costly but unworkable. Its not like the Disney merchandise is of good quality these days, the pop the price up, lower the quality and say limited and people buy it, crazy.
Jodi
It’s Disney’s fault–by making “limited editions” of things like stuffed animals they create the demand. The resellers are just trying to pay their bills like everyone else.
Jean
Stop buying the items on eBay etc!!!!!!
Let them be stuck with 200 popcorn buckets.
Lisa
Willing to bet MOST of the resellers are annual passholders (Magic Keys) who don’t mind waiting in lines for hours since they come all the time. They buy with their AP discount and resell. Why can’t the items be tracked on their annual pass? There should be a way to do this.
xtina
This right here. ^^^ Its 90% annual Passholders. Its easy to track if its tracked through their passholder ticket. Also there was a woman just recently caught doing the resale through her passholder ticket and shut down.
Jim
Oh please how easy is it to find some one selling Disney souvenirs on line. Less than 10 seconds and you have the name and address. And Disney has the name an address of nearly everyone with. Annual passes now how hard would it be to produce a list that matches. I’m saying even a hack programmer could put this together in less than an hour
Clarence
Here’s a solution. Don’t buy on the secondary market. They get stuck with it. And stop buying it all because there is no market for them. Disney shouldn’t accept it back after 7 days for a refund and boom. Problem solved
Bob
These us a simple solution, stop buying stuff on eBay. There is not a single item Disney sells that you need. If everyone stopped overpaying for junk people would stop reselling.
Ty
Very simple – The ONLY way to stop resellers is to boycott them and NOT buy from them. Once this happens they WILL lower their price or get stuck with the product. Once people learn this lesson resellers will be out of business. It’s the same with any product that is overpriced- just don’t buy it
RoC
People are stupid. Stupid for buying chinese made garbage to sell to stupid people clamoring to buy it at an inflated price only to send it to goodwill in 10 years to declutter their house. It is not Disneys fault that there is a demand for their tchotchke junk. Blame the people willing to pay for the junk on Ebay.
Cary
Limit two SKUs per person lifetime, ESPECIALLY if they use their Annual Pass discount. If they happen to ruin those two, then they can buy them aftermarket (ebay, etc.). If they were buying for their family, then they can get two more by someone else buying them. If you include the children in your purchase, then they get one/child and it must fit that child (that way you can’t buy 15 adult spirit jerseys because you have a bunch of kids with you), or have to be kid appropriate (Starbucks bottles/mugs aren’t for kids!). And if people don’t like it, tough. It’s what makes it FAIR to all.
Peterson
Scalpers do this with the PS5, and even GameStop, to some extent scalpel, used video games.
Denise
Although, I think these people are a-holes for doing this, I don’t understand people’s obsessions with having to have these items to the point of fighting over them. I’ve probably purchased only two or three of their overpriced items from a park in my whole lifetime. I have better things to spend my money on which aren’t overpriced.
Ken Brenner
Hi.
I’ve never been much for WDW merchandise.
I have purchased two Mickey ringer t-shirts, but I’d never had stood in a long line for one.
Having said that, the one story that came out a few months ago was the hours-long wait for a popcorn holder. I cannot imagine standing in line for 2-4 hours to buy something like that. Especially when they could have used that time on rides and attractions.
Could anyone possibly explain that?
Fran
Ap are family linked. Merchandise should be ONE PER FAMILY. No exceptions.
They can’t sell what they don’t have….
Tesa
A few years back, Disney had more in park mer h available for online purchase. When this stopped, these disgusting resellers grew larger. I’d Disney would open the online park Merch to more options, this would help a lot. These people need to be stopped.
Mickeymouse3
Disney is many things, including a retailer. The goal of a retailer is to sell a product. Disney is doing just that. What difference does it make to them if one person is buying a bunch of merchandise all at once, or several individuals buy all their products. They are still moving merchandise. If they limit product purchases, what would a large family do when they can’t buy that last child the same shirt, toy etc. as the other children?
If you are at a restaurant and they run out of “the special” that you wanted, are you going to complain that another customer bought your dinner?
While I will agree it’s greedy and dirty what some people will do to make a buck or two, Disney should not bear the blame.
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