What would be some variable costs? Not covering fixed costs is interesting, you think that would come first. This is why I am not a CPA... but as a business owner fixed costs come first.
that's an interesting point. I never thought of that. If that's the case consider me outraged and insulted that my $45 a month is not worth it for Disney
In all seriousness though, I have given up, many years ago, to try and make sense out of Disney decisions
Finishing Epcot (or any other capital project) would not generate a loss. Capital projects are depreciated (expensed) over their expected life.
I think people had a false sense of optimism with Merchpass. People were used to the issues with limited release items and getting bumped off the site, getting them in the cart but unable to check out, etc. But with this first use of Merchpass, I think a lot of people expected this would block resellers completely and basically everyone that wanted one would be selected for the lottery. It obviously wasn’t going to work like that. With the limited availability and multiple accounts it was still going to be a massive surprise to get selected. So people got more upset directly related to how optimistic they were to be selected.
I can tell you as an out of state AP holder that I spend much more than I ever would if I were local. I spend thousands a year just on my room, then you have to look at food (since unless I bring food with me I'm eating out), and other spending. We have 4 trips over the next year and it's spendy, and I don't think any local AP holder would be able to, or want to, spend that amounta of money. Not saying I'm special for spending way too much on something that makes me happy, but I can see how as a company they would want to cater towards people who spend that kind of money vs. those who just pop in and possibly eat a snack or QS (or nothing at all) and leave.
The discount isn’t showing up for anything for me- is there something specific I need to do besides having a linked AP?
Direct labor is probably their biggest variable costs for the parks. Basically expenses you would not incur if you were not operating.
The code is AP30OFF
It's not that they don't want to hit the number, it's that they want to hit the number with the "right" guests. This isn't meant to be offensive to local APs as I have family who are local and in the same boat. They are advertising in certain geographic areas and trying to pull guests in from those areas. There have been many perks for the Disney vacation taken away with potentially low park crowds being one of the few left. There have been reports of some people canceling already due to the increase in crowds the last couple weeks as opposed to the first week crowd levels. Disney does not want to let in local APs day of to reach capacity and potentially risk guests who are willing to pay and stay at their resorts cancelling their trips.
yeah, an AP off site value is lower than AP onsite or regular day ticket. Keeps the parks with lower attendance, again, they might have set a capacity number real high but they knew they wouldn't hit it and they are fine with that. Wondering what would happen if they would hit that capacity for the 2 other buckets.
I can't get it to work. I keep getting invalid code, both on my account and my DH's.
Thanks! I totally get the concept of variable vs. fixed but was wondering how it would apply to the parks since I know so little about how that works. I assumed labor was fixed but see how that can fluctuate and became a variable instead.
I know some were able to get it to work with inactivated APs. But I’m not sure. I’d confirm they are linked to your Disney account on the MDE, and if worst comes to worst, call Disney and see if they can help.
