NotUrsula
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Apr 19, 2002
My first reaction was to order, so I put them in My cart. Then I thought on it, I removed them. DISNEY can well afford to donate without Using Disney fans to fund their donations.
Personally find it Distasteful. Really, Disney... do better!
FWIW, they ARE donating them, at least some of them. They are donating one million masks to patients in children's hospitals, and then also donating the profits from the ones sold online. The issue I'm having with their sale donation is that they have put a cap on the amount that will be donated. I'm hoping that the negative reaction to that will cause them to reconsider the cap.
I've been making masks for a charity drive for nearly 2 months now, and I can tell you this much: EVERY mask donated has a likelihood of ending up re-sold. The ones that we have been donating have been turning up on eBay in dribs and drabs; someone is taking them out of the pipeline (we are now being advised to stamp "not for resale" on the ones we donate.) I'm willing to bet that probably half of the masks that the Disney Store sold today are going to end up being re-sold on eBay for a lot more than Disney priced them.
There is already a HUGE market on eBay and Etsy of Disney-print masks. The online price of the printed Disney character raw fabric (licensed by Disney but not sold by them) has gone up about 500% in the past month. Disney won't make as much on their masks as the ones that are out there now, which average about $11/ea., and which are mostly made of fabric purchased before the price skyrocketed. (Some are cheaper, but some are also more expensive.)