whatever happened to that vacation planning website....

disneyfannyc

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Jul 15, 2007, 2:53:56 PM7/15/07

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I remember a few years back there was a lot of discussion about some guy
who ran a "safe" vacation planning website for people travelling to
WDW. Seems that one of the things he (and his alleged staff) did was to
call each and every morning to WDW dining reservations and flood them
with fake reservations for popular restaurants, particularly breakfast
at Cinderella's castle. Turns out he was actually selling off the
reservations to the highest bidder, eventually prompting WDW to change
it's reservations policy to stop this nonsense.

Does this guy/his site still exist? I seem to remember it got converted
to some kind of private, pay only site.

M.C.Gordon Jr

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Jul 15, 2007, 5:54:26 PM7/15/07

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That would have been Dr Howard (Howie) Ditchek.
Uncle Howie of Howies Angels.
Interesting reading.
http://www.mouseplanet.com/articles.php?art=ms040604ms

Matt
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disneyfannyc

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Jul 15, 2007, 6:44:01 PM7/15/07

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Seriously now, people pay someone for information that is pretty much free just about everywhere on the net to the single most popular resort destination on the planet? Safe for families? notice though that they wont' take any more "new members". That's pretty funny. Actually, in this day and age, I find it astounding that someone just hands over their credit card numbers to some complete stranger on a website for something they can do themselves with 6 months advance. Places like "allearsnet" do all thsi for free and have pretty complete information on WDW.

Very funny.

Steve Russo

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Jul 15, 2007, 6:50:53 PM7/15/07

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"disneyfannyc" <nor...@verizon.net> wrote in message
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Unfortunately, the practice of getting CRT reservations (apparently) still
exists at the new site.

Dillon Pyron

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Jul 16, 2007, 11:44:27 PM7/16/07

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Thus spake disneyfannyc <nor...@verizon.net> :

>Seriously now, people pay someone for information that is pretty much
>free just about everywhere on the net to the single most popular resort
>destination on the planet? Safe for families? notice though that they
>wont' take any more "new members". That's pretty funny. Actually, in
>this day and age, I find it astounding that someone just hands over
>their credit card numbers to some complete stranger on a website for
>something they can do themselves with 6 months advance. Places like
>"allearsnet" do all thsi for free and have pretty complete information
>on WDW.

Any half way decent TA will do this for you. For free. I even get up
at oh dark thirty to make ADRs for my clients.

>
>Very funny.
>
>M.C.Gordon Jr wrote:
>
>>On Jul 15, 2:53 pm, disneyfannyc <nore...@verizon.net> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>I remember a few years back there was a lot of discussion about some guy
>>>who ran a "safe" vacation planning website for people travelling to
>>>WDW. Seems that one of the things he (and his alleged staff) did was to
>>>call each and every morning to WDW dining reservations and flood them
>>>with fake reservations for popular restaurants, particularly breakfast
>>>at Cinderella's castle. Turns out he was actually selling off the
>>>reservations to the highest bidder, eventually prompting WDW to change
>>>it's reservations policy to stop this nonsense.
>>>
>>>Does this guy/his site still exist? I seem to remember it got converted
>>>to some kind of private, pay only site.
>>>
>>>
>>
>>That would have been Dr Howard (Howie) Ditchek.
>>Uncle Howie of Howies Angels.
>>Interesting reading.
>>http://www.mouseplanet.com/articles.php?art=ms040604ms
>>
>>Matt
>>--
>>"If the Magic is done right its still Magical even if you know all the
>>Secrets."
>>http://www.delightfuljewelry.com
>>Delightful Jewelry for Every Occasion.
>>
>>
>>

--
dillon

Broadway Photo sucks. Ask me why.

Dillon Pyron

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Jul 16, 2007, 11:47:57 PM7/16/07

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Thus spake "M.C.Gordon Jr" <rustyn...@cs.com> :

>On Jul 15, 2:53 pm, disneyfannyc <nore...@verizon.net> wrote:
>> I remember a few years back there was a lot of discussion about some guy
>> who ran a "safe" vacation planning website for people travelling to
>> WDW. Seems that one of the things he (and his alleged staff) did was to
>> call each and every morning to WDW dining reservations and flood them
>> with fake reservations for popular restaurants, particularly breakfast
>> at Cinderella's castle. Turns out he was actually selling off the
>> reservations to the highest bidder, eventually prompting WDW to change
>> it's reservations policy to stop this nonsense.
>>
>> Does this guy/his site still exist? I seem to remember it got converted
>> to some kind of private, pay only site.
>
>That would have been Dr Howard (Howie) Ditchek.
>Uncle Howie of Howies Angels.
>Interesting reading.
>http://www.mouseplanet.com/articles.php?art=ms040604ms
>
>Matt

What??? You can get damn good porn for less than that.

M.C.Gordon Jr

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Jul 17, 2007, 6:51:40 AM7/17/07

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On Jul 16, 11:47 pm, Dillon Pyron <dmpyronINVA...@austin.rr.com>
wrote:
> Thus spake "M.C.Gordon Jr" <rustynail...@cs.com> :

> Broadway Photo sucks. Ask me why.- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

I can see what you do with your spare time.