Firebird060
Kilted in Disney
- Joined
- Apr 30, 2014
Overall sounds like a mess out west.
Still no idea how they know and ebay item is from a certain AP though. Hoped the article might cover that. Oh well.
It can be a challenge i am sure, I know they were using peoples Facebook accounts to verify. Some Facebook groups and some Facebook users who are AP holders, would advertise things on sale on those pages and then link people to there ebay account, if the person selling the item isnt the smartest and doesnt know really how easily you can be identified via social media and other things and links themselves to accounts to accept payments, then it isnt hard to find out and identify.
It seems like the ones who were caught and had there AP revoked are those who were actually treating it more like a small business. The cronic users and abusers of the system were the ones Disney could easily identify and revoke. Now this whole crackdown isnt going to stop all the resellers, because nothing stops anyone from buying something without a AP discount and reselling it, at a mark up, which wouldnt invalidate a AP since there is no rules that you cant resell, only you cant get the AP discount and resell. What it does is allows Disney to publicly put on notice anyone who does "abuse" the discount AP system and makes it easier for either Disney to later revoke the AP merch discount , or possibly Disney just limiting the number of LE items down to 1 per pass or something like that. Either one would have outrage from the Disney fans, but now Disney can do it and have it not seem like it was out of no where. Gives them a shadow of a leg to stand on, makes it more palatable to us masses.