Four arrested for selling fake Disney tickets...

[rikkis_playpen Diamond Club Contributor Find all posts View Profile Close rikkis_playpen]

Four arrested for selling worthless Disney World tickets | Chip and Co

......The arrest underscores the importance of never buying theme park tickets from an unknown seller. The bust was initiated by complaints from tourists who were purchasing the tickets, then being turned away from the theme parks when they turned out to be worthless......

[tonyg Goomba & Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close tonyg]

Seems like it just goes on and on, then every so often they throw the book at a few of them. Sometimes cheaper is not better and sometimes it's more expensive.

[Spence Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close Spence]

Seems like it just goes on and on, then every so often they throw the book at a few of them. Sometimes cheaper is not better and sometimes it's more expensive.

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I heard they taste like chicken.

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[chriskre Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close chriskre]

I bought tickets from the booth on I-92 near Wastegate. At first the fingerprint scanner didn't work but after several tries they let you in anyway. I wonder if one of these booths was involved. I bought it from the one next to the Mini golf that looks like a mountain. We were referred there by the Wastegate TS recruiter in a souvenir shop.

[bnoble Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close bnoble]

but after several tries they let you in anyway.

Sometimes they will reset the biometrics. But, sometimes, they won't.

[chriskre Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close chriskre]

Maybe we just got lucky or had a lazy Cast member but we got in and it was Halloween.

[chriskre Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close chriskre]

Check out this link from cnet forums.

Disney ''fingerprinting'' myths - CNET Buzz Out Loud Lounge Forums

They had the same experience we had.

[bnoble Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close bnoble]

They work well enough, and I've seen people turned away with them. But, they aren't always going to work--they just work "often enough". Here's the full story.

1: it's not a fingerprint. It's an abstract. Chances of a "false positive" (a match that isn't really a match) are about 1 in 10,000 or so.

2: tickets purchased in a single transaction are "grouped". That way, if Aunt Florence gets Bobby's ticket, it will still work without holding up the line.

3: When the gates get swamped, they will temporarily turn off biometrics. The light still flashes, but the turnstile unlocks "early". Once you've gone through them often enough, you get to learn how long it's "supposed" to take, and can tell when scanning is off.

At the end of the day, Disney just needs to catch scofflaws probabilistically, with a fairly high chance. And, the system they have more or less does that.

[chriskre Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close chriskre]

Maybe Disney doesn't care so much in Epcot as the Magic Kingdom so
they let us in and we saved $35 each ticket using one of these.

Was it worth the gamble? We thought it was at the time.

I'll have to try it again at Magic Kingdom and see if it works.

For me it's not an issue as I buy the Florida resident tickets but
for those unlucky enough to not live in Florida, it can get expensive
for just a one day ticket.