Scalpers Take Advantage of Disney’s Sold Out Halloween Party

On July 11, thousands of people logged onto the Disneyland Resort website, ready to wait in line to buy their tickets to Oogie Boogie Bash. Oogie Boogie Bash is Disneyland’s hard-ticketed Halloween Party that has happened every year since 2019. The Halloween party takes place at Disney California Adventure Park. Guests were excited to finally get their hands on tickets to Oogie Boogie Bash after the fiasco of trying to buy tickets the first time. Tickets originally went on sale on June 29, but Disney had to stop sales after less than 10 minutes because the site crashed.

Thankfully, the Disneyland Resort website didn’t crash the second time Oogie Boogie Bash tickets went on sale. The virtual queue had people waiting hours upon hours for their chance to buy. As the day went on, Disney would update the site to let people know which dates had sold out, so Guests could plan accordingly. However, after just 12 hours, Disney updated the website once again to let people know that tickets to Oogie Boogie Bash were sold out. The party had reached a new Disney milestone, completely selling out in less than a day.

The problem with Disney events, like Oogie Boogie Bash, being in such high demand is that it gives scalpers a chance to take advantage of people desperate to go. There were a number of people who purchased tickets to Oogie Boogie Bash with no intention of going. Instead, they purchased tickets just so they could go onto other websites and resell them.

Not long after it was revealed that tickets to Oogie Boogie Bash were sold out, tickets began popping up on sites like eBay for absolutely outrageous prices. Four tickets were selling for as much as $2,000. The top price for a ticket to Oogie Boogie Bash purchased through Disney was $184.

TikToker TheDisneyRN also shared a video of all the tickets she found being scalped online.

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It should be noted that each ticket to Oogie Boogie Bash comes with a list of terms and conditions. One of the terms is that the tickets may not be transferred or resold. If Disney catches a Guest reselling tickets — especially for a high profit — Disney could not only revoke the ticket, but also ban the Guest from visiting the Parks at all.

Not the First Time Scalpers Attack

Sadly, scalping and reselling have become the norm when it comes to popular Disney events and merchandise. In the past, resellers have headed to the Parks to buy as much in-demand merchandise as they could and then resell it. Guests have been photographed and called out online for buying things like Figment popcorn buckets, EPCOT 40th merchandise, Haunted Mansion merchandise, and more.

Guests visiting Disneyland Paris were even photographed hauling a wagon full of merchandise through the Park. Wagons are not allowed in Disney’s U.S. Parks — unless given medical clearance — but they are still allowed in some overseas Parks. The faces of those Guests were not shown. Instead, their faces were covered with poop emojis, which many people thought fit the greedy Guests.

Things have gotten even crazier at some of Disney’s Asian theme parks. More than once, Guests have been photographed using fake babies, so they could have the chance to purchase more merchandise than is allowed.

Again, buying Disney merchandise and reselling it for a large profit is against Disney’s rules. If caught, Guests will be banned from the Parks. If the reselling Guest is an Annual Passholder or Magic Key Holder, they will have their Magic Key or Annual Pass revoked. They will, however, be required to continue to pay for the pass, even though they can’t use it.