Just a quick note about this - note that you can place a mobile order even without being scanned into the parks, whereas you cannot get a FP via MP unless you have scanned into the park. So placing a mock mobile order would only test if you are logged into your account, and not that the system has correctly registered you as having scanned into the park (which apparently has been glitching for some folks, causing them to be unable to get a BG or delaying them if they didn't force close the app after park entry). If you have MP you would still need to try and get a FP via MP to test that.
Took me a while to find this post... I guess that shows my obsession with this fast moving thread, that I suddenly find myself thinking about a days old post, wondering about strategies. Find below another possible idea for checking if your whole party is scanned in (feedback of the collective Disboards think tank here about this having the potential to work is greatly appreciated) for people whose travel budget doesn’t include Maxpass.
We’re a family of four, and I don’t mind running for FPs during the day, which is why I’m wondering if the benefit of getting one bonus pre-opening FP and the opportunity to pick up canceled FPs in the late afternoon/evening is worth an extra $80 per day for us. Yet, alas, there is the lovely reassurance that all of us are properly scanned in, while waiting for the boarding groups to become available, which we’d forego if we decide to not buy it. What to do?
As you mention above, it wouldn’t help to place a test mobile order, since you can do this even when not scanned in (though that would at least show me if I’m signed into my account in the app—I noticed that the app sometimes signs me out, seemingly without any good reason).
So, here is my question/idea:
Could I go through the process of purchasing Maxpass without giving the final ok for the credit card payment to go through (or without having my credit card or other payment method linked at the time) to find out if any of the linked tickets belong to people not recognized by the system as “scanned into the park”?
I guess this working or not would depend on in which order the system checks (A) if all the people selected for purchase are in the park and thus eligible to buy Maxpass and (B) if there is a valid method of payment associated with the account to complete the purchase. If the system checks (A) first and then (B), this should work; if it checks (B) and doesn’t even bother checking (A) before there’s payment, then it obviously wouldn’t.
Say, oh wise fellow ROTR obsessed ones, do you think this could be a possible alternative to spending the money on Maxpass? Anybody in the parks willing to play around with this and report back? I’d be happy to try it myself, but I won’t be there until August (and of course none of us know what exact procedures they’ll be using by then—I hope that BG will still be a thing at the time, but who knows...).
