I would like to know if you can pass tickets from one person to the next. I know at disneyland you can, at WDW I am told that they are finger printed, but then I am told no they are not.

Why I ask, is I am a single mom and I am going to have to buy two adult tickets after all for our trip next week. I struggle all the time money wise and I do not want to put it on ebay and make money but if I bought more days, it would cost very little for the extra days and if I found another struggling mom or dad and could split the cost it would be nice. And I don't mean have someone pay full price for the ticket like on ebay, I want to just split the price 50/50. But I will only do so if you can, like in disneyland.

Please don't write back you want it in this forum, if I can do it, look in the forum of buy and sell, I just want the answer if I can do this before I put it in the forum.

Tickets are non transferable.

Even in DL they are not transferrable, although there isn't any technology to prevent it. In WDW, when you use a ticket for the first time, your finger is scanned. It's not a totally detailed fingerprint that's recorded, but enough points are registered as to make it next to impossible for someone else to use that ticket other than the person originally scanned. Sorry.

At WDW all adult tickets will activate a finger scanner on the turnstile.

The first time you use the ticket it will scan your finger and select an area about 1/4 inch by 1/8 inch, analyze the print in that area, apply a mathematical algorithm, and store the resulting number tied to the serial number of the ticket in the ticketing computer.

On subsequent entries (re-entry to the same park, hopping to another park, or on another day) it will scan the finger again and look for the exact same analyzed area on the finger. These number strings are stored on the computer until thirty days after the ticket expires, or, for a ticket with the No Expire option, 30 days after the last entitlement is used.

When you come to a gate and we get an "identification fails" message, we will normally ask if you are sure you are using the same finger you used the first time. We have certain questions we can ask which will help us determine if you are the proper owner of the ticket.

The tickets have printed on them that they are non-transferable and revocable. I have had times when I have confiscated tickets and turned them over to my supervisor, and also pointed out the people with the ticket problems to Security.

Disney is Private Property and they make up and enforce their rules for admission.

And I would suggest not considering buying tickets on eBay. There is no way, unless you are at a terminal that has access to Disney's Automated Ticketing System, that you can tell what entitlements are on a ticket. And Cast Members are prohibited from telling anybody over the phone who calls in with a ticket serial number; to do so can lead to action up to and including firing. I have seen people come to a turnstile and the tickets have had no more entries or had expired. They had to buy tickets on the spot to be able to get in.

and the rumor always was that Disneyland has every intention of implementing the biometrics, they were just being tested at WDW first.

and WDW has already been through 2 incarnations - the 2 finger scan and the 1 finger scan. and they were reportedly working on a system that let you use virtually any body part (insert your own joke here).

but i would definitely believe that DLR will be implementing them someday.

I read that WDW can only store the "fingerprints" for three months because the ACLU went berzerk over privacy rights. I agree with the ACLU on this one (a rarity).

I don't believe this is true, pookster. They're not looking at the entire fingerprint, but only a very small portion. The database that stores this information is not interfaced with any other database, and the info collected is in no way used for any other purpose than gate itentification. And the data is deleted when the media expires.

it does read a fingerprint (or part thereof), the software manufacturer has said they are capable of reading and storing the fingerprint, but as it is, it's just a mathematical formula calculated from the ridges. it's not unique, but close enough.