The last time I declined MBs, the option to decline was in the online check-in section of MDE.
Not any more. When they went to the option of paying to upgrade, or pick free ones, they took away the option to decline them on that screen.In you mde if you hit magic bands you can decline them. It's in the same window for when u wanna choose.
Ah my badNot any more. When they went to the option of paying to upgrade, or pick free ones, they took away the option to decline them on that screen.
Did that actually work for you?
It didn't for me when I tried it a few months ago - still got the grey bands upon arrival.
Desperately hoping that it is now working, I don't want more bands!
The last time I declined MBs, the option to decline was in the online check-in section of MDE.
For our Christmas week trip, I tried this in the online check in section. Thought I had finally figured out how to not get bands that we do not need. Nope! Grey ones were waiting for us at check-in. At that point they were already activated and in MDE, which is exactly what those of us who go multiple times a year are trying to avoid. ARRGGHH!Did that actually work for you?
It didn't for me when I tried it a few months ago - still got the grey bands upon arrival.
Desperately hoping that it is now working, I don't want more bands!
We had grey MB's mailed to us in December, even though I had declined them when doing online check in. So I called the Disney internet help desk to have them remove some of my old bands and to see if there was a way to get Disney to stop sending unwanted bands. The CM on the phone told me that when they brought out the Premium bands it changed things so that now people can not decline bands.Did that actually work for you?
It didn't for me when I tried it a few months ago - still got the grey bands upon arrival.
Desperately hoping that it is now working, I don't want more bands!
For our Christmas week trip, I tried this in the online check in section. Thought I had finally figured out how to not get bands that we do not need. Nope! Grey ones were waiting for us at check-in. At that point they were already activated and in MDE, which is exactly what those of us who go multiple times a year are trying to avoid. ARRGGHH!
That has happened to me more than once. Did you go "playing" in the MB selection space at all (even if you did not actually select / order a MB)? It seems to me that if you click on that at all, they will have gray bands waiting for you at check-in, even if you decline them in online check-in (I have had two sets of these gray MBs waiting). But, if you don't go into the MB space at all and decline them at least a couple of weeks in advance, there should not be any gray MBs waiting for you at check in. I hope that works for you in the future!For our Christmas week trip, I tried this in the online check in section. Thought I had finally figured out how to not get bands that we do not need. Nope! Grey ones were waiting for us at check-in. At that point they were already activated and in MDE, which is exactly what those of us who go multiple times a year are trying to avoid. ARRGGHH!
We had grey MB's mailed to us in December, even though I had declined them when doing online check in. So I called the Disney internet help desk to have them remove some of my old bands and to see if there was a way to get Disney to stop sending unwanted bands. The CM on the phone told me that when they brought out the Premium bands it changed things so that now people can not decline bands.
We had a trip earlier this month and I didn't want another set of grey bands. The CM suggested that I let the grey bands get shipped to the resort and then not pick them up. When I checked my list of MB's on my MDE account, I could see the grey MB that was waiting at the POR check in desk. We did not pick up the bands, and once the trip was over, the bands were listed as inactive on our accounts. Eventually, the grey bands that were sent to the resort were removed from our MDE accounts.
The CM told that they would eventually bring back the option to delete a band. It is such a waste of time and money, but it is nice to know that if you don't pick the band up at the resort it eventually gets removed from your account.
That has happened to me more than once. Did you go "playing" in the MB selection space at all (even if you did not actually select / order a MB)? It seems to me that if you click on that at all, they will have gray bands waiting for you at check-in, even if you decline them in online check-in (I have had two sets of these gray MBs waiting). But, if you don't go into the MB space at all and decline them at least a couple of weeks in advance, there should not be any gray MBs waiting for you at check in. I hope that works for you in the future!
Also, know that you can call and have IT delete MBs. Having a lot of them can cause issues with opening doors. Our last trip, we deleted a bunch right before, and everything opened smoothly.
I called IT today, too, to have old bands and cards removed. The CM told me that I could also take any unwanted bands to the front desk of our resort next time we go to WDW and they will remove them from our account and recycle them. Our next trip is in March and I think I will test this and see what happens. It would be easier than calling IT.I called IT to have all of our Magic Band 1.0 versions permanently deleted. It was a long phone call to do that for all of us. I had to go through every band by serial number and then there were also all of the expired APs and used MNSSHP and MVMCP cards as well. I'll need to do it again at some point but wish it was possible to just do it myself online.
I don't know if this is true because it sounds kind of "dumb" to be true. We just traveled over NYE and already had magic bands that I purchased from shopdisney. However, I was still assigned magic bands in MDE. I called both DVC and Disney and was told that declining magic bands were no longer an option. That I would have to go to check in desk when we got there to decline. I did, the guy at the check in desk told me the same thing.I ordered upgraded bands for our trip then decided to add a day to the start of our trip but booked a different resort. How do I decline the bands for that added day?