What else happened at Disneyland last Sunday?

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Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight

My gut says that the market for park-specific merchandise outside of the parks themselves is not particularly huge. It's there, but most people only want park mechandise if they're at a park. So while Disney makes it available, it doesn't make much sense for them to put up the overhead to catalog and advertise. But if some 3rd party wants to cater to that niche, the merch. sales generated for Disney are gravy, with no extra overhead. Seems like win-win to me.

GD, I don't disagree with you, but I do think that it's a lot cooler to feed off laziness and be up front about it, than to ignorance. Since Disney doesn't have on-line ordering, you have to pick up the phone, call Disney mail-order and spend a few minutes talking to the CM to figure out what items you want. If LP makes it clear that you can save money by going through that "hassle", then all the power to them. By creating a site that's purports to be an authority on Disney theme parks, while conveniently leaving out the fact that DeliverEARS is available, it borders on creepy.
Your win-win situation applies to LP and Disney. The loser is the consumer.
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