Disney Attempting To Clamp Down On FastPasses Being Sold On eBay

Posted by Joel
July 8, 2008

The Orlando Sentinel is reporting that Walt Disney World is upset over expired FastPass tickets being sold on eBay. Disney has contacted eBay about this but eBay is refusing to do anything about them. Expired FastPasses are not supposed to be accepted at attractions, but the on-line sellers claim that Disney is not enforcing the rules.

“Since there are no laws prohibiting the sale of expired tickets, listings for expired tickets are allowed,” eBay spokeswoman Catherine England said. “eBay does not enforce third-party contracts, so it’s up to whoever issues the tickets [in this case, Disney] to enforce the terms and conditions they’ve defined for their tickets.”

FastPasses are now being date and time stamped along with notices that they are “NOT FOR SALE,” “Valid only on date printed” and “Nontransferable.” A Disney spokeswoman said that attraction attendants are instructed to reject any FastPass not stamped with the current date and do not have perforated edges. Disney has also been testing bar codes on the FastPasses and bar-code readers at some attractions.

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Comment Number:: 1
Written by:: Cedric
Posted on:: July 8, 2008 at 10:12 am

I hope that this article is just a coincidence… I just posted my collection of all of the WDW FastPasses (http://soneevda.blogspot.com/2008/07/disney-wdw-fastpass.html) (shameless self-promotion). I have totally no intention of relinquishing these. I’m too much of a geek and a sentimental pack-rat.

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Posted on:: July 9, 2008 at 10:53 am

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