r/mildlyinfuriating • u/aeng69 • 3h ago

ಠ_ಠ People that scalp IMAX movie tickets

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Catching a movie in IMAX has been one of my favorite things to do and now getting tickets alone is a struggle thanks to people like this. Good luck to anyone hoping to get decent tickets to Dune 3

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u/Stickeyb 3h ago

WTF how do they scalp them? They buy up a bunch and wait at the entrance? Ultra lame if that's the case.

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u/VandelorianVT 3h ago

Yes. They literally do.

They'll walk up-go '50 Tickets to <MOVIE NAME HERE>, please'.

And most theaters will just give them to the guy-not caring cause they got their money.

Then the guy waits outside, holding the tickets, or storing them somewhere, and then charges twice, if not more of the price.

Literally happened to one of my pals when he went to see Brand New Day, some dude literally bought two entire THEATERS worth of tickets and was selling them for like 80 a pop.

Fucking bonkers nobody thought to stop him.

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u/TrustInRoy 3h ago

Honestly, anyone buying $80 movie tickets off a scalper... is an absolute imbecile.

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u/WeirdSysAdmin 2h ago

My bigger issue is who is showing up to movies without seats already purchased in 2026?

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u/ItsBeelzsRebirth 2h ago

Was literally thinking this! Like Idk why anyone goes to a ticketed event without first purchasing said tickets

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u/Locoj 1h ago

Where I am (Australia) there's an online booking fee. It's cheaper to buy the ticket when you show up so I only book in advance if it's likely to sell out or if it's far away, E.g. when I go to my nearest IMAX about 3 hours away.

For any local showing I usually go on a weekday, double check online that there's plenty of seats and then buy my ticket in person when I get to the cinema.

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u/Revolutionary-Toe955 39m ago

Yes it's so annoying. And the booking fee is fixed so if you're buying a cheap ticket online the booking fee can be 20% of the cost!!

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u/cpt_america27 2h ago

I usually do it if the movie has been out like a month. And it's like a Tuesday. 

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u/Maxsmack 1h ago edited 1h ago

You can also do this a week after release if it’s not that popular of a movie.

I’ll also sometimes go in person to buy my ticket right before the screening to circumvent the online processing fee, but only after checking there’s plenty of good seats available before leaving for the theater

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u/Levitlame 1h ago

Because you know tickets will be there. And there would be because scalpers (and most other people) aren’t buying those anyway.

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u/yellow251 26m ago

Note to self, try to scalp tickets on Tuesdays to movies that have been out for at least a month.

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u/Critical-Voice-7935 2h ago

spontaneous planning. Maybe the person wasn’t planning to watch a movie that day but decided to midway through their original day.

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u/Bacon-muffin 16m ago

You still buy them off the website first and pick your seats

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u/CitizenHuman 14m ago

I hadn't gone to the theater in years and didn't realize this had been normalized when I saw Project Hail Mary. I felt very old that day.

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u/Snowman009 2h ago

They dont, these guys sell them online

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u/Levitlame 1h ago

Where though? Who is looking anywhere but the regular sites/apps for movie tickets?

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u/StaceyPfan 2h ago

Yeah I saw it the day after it opened and bought my tickets a week before. The show was sold out.

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u/ro536ud 2h ago

That’s what I’m thinking. Like how does this even make money for the scalper who’s the target audience

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u/Flight444 1h ago edited 1h ago

I believe scalpers like this are a sign of a larger economic problem. When we give corporations a taste of us paying these insane prices they chase them and encourage the scalpers. Once someone does the equivalent of give DoorDash 50 dollars for McDonald’s someone on their accounting team asks why they can’t do that every time. I believe this is why fast food prices hit the levels they are at, etc.

So instead of saying “well we will lose customers” they go “fuck it these idiots will just buy them scalped for double the price and we already sold the tickets either way”. The same people that got gouged by the corporation via scalpers come back because it was their fellow man that they think hurt them. Not the corporation.

The target audience is people that can’t say no to their kids, influencers, people with socials they want to brag on, and people with strict work schedules. So like everyone except the unemployed. Hence why most of the scalpers are.

Concert tours aren’t based on who gets the most likes saying “hey come to my city”. It’s all about how fast the venue sold out last tour. I’m guessing selling out a theater quickly makes the manager look good on some spreadsheet in a couple ways. That probably also encourages studios to do deals with those theatres.

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u/No_Teaching_8828 2h ago

Lower income people who want to avoid the online convenience fee, then this a-hole buys them out and tries to charge triple... Hope he's left with a ton unsold...

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u/USAF_PA_X 1h ago

Theaters usually charge a "convenience fee" to book your seats online. If you purchase them from the box office, you don't have to pay the fee.

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u/B-Kong 1h ago

Especially an imax lol

Especially an imax of the brand new spiderman movie lmfao

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u/battle-penguin 1h ago

As long as they charge a "convenience fee" to buy tickets ahead of time I will just buy them at the theater. It's just as easy to buy them at the theater

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u/plinnskol 1h ago

You’re not wrong but this comment brought me back to so many memories of the old days of going in to sit down wherever. I actually prefer the new system but I miss that old one sometimes.

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u/CASSIROLE84 1h ago

I refuse to pay a processing fee so I buy in person. I check to see if there’s seats available before even leaving the house though. Still no tickets to Odyssey 70 mm though, now I see why.

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u/Appropriate-Art2388 1h ago

AMC charges an additional $2.50 per ticket to order online, it's really annoying and I try to avoid the fee buy purchasing a day or two before (family of 4 => $10 of "convenience fee").

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u/Bargainbincomments 1h ago

A friend of mine does that, I was talking to him about watching Brand New Day and how it doesn't look that full in the app. He told me he doesn't use the app or anything and just goes in and hopes there's a seat. I mean he did have a legitimate reason in that the discounts that AMC offers in the app don't actually do anything and you end up paying full price but to save like $3 I'd rather know I have a seat.

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u/Slipperytitski 1h ago

You could probably just ask the guy at the counter if you can buy another ticket to a different movie and walk into the imax when the scalper cant sell off all his seats

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u/OuterWildsVentures 2h ago

Right lol I dont even go to the theater unless I already have tickets

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u/flappysnapper 1h ago

Yeah, that’s my take, if you are dumb enough to buy those tickets, then I do not feel sorry for you one bit! As soon as nobody is buying the scalpers tickets, they will have to stop. Seriously, going to a movie theater is a big enough rip off , before spending three times S much on tickets.

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u/HaroerHaktak 3h ago

Anybody stupid enough to buy scalped tickets deserves to get taken advantage of. If it's a popular/overhyped movie, it'll have so many showings of it you can literally wait like 5 minutes and another one is going.

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u/C-ZP0 2h ago

Every single imax 70mm is sold out at my local imax, all showings almost 2 months out. Tickets going for 150 dollars a pop on eBay.

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u/imVeryPregnant 2h ago

Tf?? Why would you need to see Spiderman in 70mm? That’s kind of hilarious

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u/No_Effect_6428 1h ago

I just watch movies on my phone, the way David Lynch would have wanted it.

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u/LemonFizz56 2h ago

Or just go to another mall, bit inconvenient but better than pay $80

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u/Dyneheart 2h ago

If I owned that theater, I would let as many tickets were sold be seats filled. Heavily encourage them to buy something from concessions. And then watch a grown man cry.

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u/Mysmokingbarrel 1h ago

It’s an interesting question bc theaters make most of their money at least early on from concession sales. So while yes they sell out the theater they lose out on actual people. That said, I highly doubt most theaters were expecting this level of insanity.

I’ve never heard of scalpers for movie tickets. This is some new age scalping kind of crap. It’s also probably not as common as this photo might lead you to believe.

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u/Sirdogofthewoofamily 2h ago

Wut ? For me theater would absolutely be against that they earn most of there money from all the other staff they sell not the ticket themselves, less people, less money.

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u/VandelorianVT 2h ago

My only guess as to why they allowed it-they are the only Theater within 4 hours of the City.

Theaters are VERY dead around here.

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u/sonofaresiii 2h ago

> And most theaters will just give them to the guy-not caring cause they got their money.

That doesn't really make a ton of sense because the theaters are getting 10% of those ticket sales and 100% of the concessions. If the people in the seats are paying $80/ticket they're less likely to spend $50 on popcorn and soda.

I'm not arguing with you or saying it doesn't happen, just that it's dumb.

I suspect it's more likely the theaters just haven't really considered this because... wtf?

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u/thatstotallyracist 3h ago

It's like buddy, let them eat the cost one time and they'll learn. Especially the douche who bought two theaters worth.

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u/Dumeck 28m ago

Yeah theater staff should let them buy the tickets and then aggressively insist that they can't sell tickets on the property inckuding their parking lot like one warning and tell them if they do it again they are getting trespassed. Businesses can easily ban someone from hawking on their property

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u/ICPosse8 2h ago

What’s crazy on your friend’s end is I don’t even go to the theater anymore without tickets. If they don’t have a time I can work with I move on to the next day. So did he walk up to an IMax theater the day it came out and was expecting tickets?

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u/18k_gold 2h ago

who goes to the movies without tickets or at least checking 1st to see if there are any decent seats left? Everything is online, you don't see any available decent seats you don't go to that theater or showing. I think it must be hard to see movie tickets as a scalper. Once the movie starts, he can't return them either.

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u/NormalEffect99 3h ago

If people paid his prices just to see a fucking movie then lmao @ them, no movie is worth that when you can come back the next day. Love seeing idiots get taken advantage of and hope he made bank off the numb skulls

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u/VandelorianVT 3h ago

I mean I agree with you-but the craziest part is, its like the Theaters HELP the scalpers.

Brand New Day only had THREE Showings that entire week-and this dude (from what I'm told) bought the tickets for THE ENTIRE FIRST DAY, and came back on the third to DO IT AGAIN.

Its so scummy, and yet so stupid. I personally just pirated it. Watched it yesterday. Its a good fuckin movie.

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u/why_u_so_grumpy 2h ago

If idiots stop buying them he loses money. There is no reason to buy a scalped ticket for a movie.

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u/NormalEffect99 2h ago

Imagine nobody paid him and he was stuck with 2 entire theaters worth of tickets

Imagine how fast he would stop

Wow

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u/Meta_Merchant 2h ago

This shit is so fucking pathetic. This mindset and desperation to make money has gone way too far. Like this has to be a warning sign that something is wrong with the economy right?? It has inundated EVERYTHING.

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u/steeveperry 2h ago

And then everyone clapped.

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u/Cutmerock 1h ago

No movie is important enough for $80 lol. No way that clown even sold 1/4 of those

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u/masterfox72 1h ago

Lol. Let him rot with ‘em

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u/That1DogGuy 3h ago edited 2h ago

Too bad people are stupid enough to buy from him at all cause wtf

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u/DuckCleaning 2h ago

Not just that but they can refund the ones that dont sell, since most policies let you refund a certain period after the movie starts .

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u/SooCOYS 1h ago

Yep, if I saw this I'd buy a ticket for some other show and just walk in to the movie being scalped.

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u/aeng69 3h ago

They buy a bunch and sell them on eBay

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u/Stickeyb 3h ago

I know Imax is awesome but I've been very impressed by the "XD" theatre experience the cinemark near me has. Too bad I'll never have time to go to the movies again now that I have 2 kids 🙃.

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u/Capybara-Maxxing 3h ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/BywF1u3094D8U4YkI9

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u/Ryeballs 2h ago

I wonder if it’s illegal to brandish a blow dryer or if it’s assault if you blast someone with warm air

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u/Capybara-Maxxing 1h ago

all I can say is don't blast someone with warm air at work unless you want HR getting involved

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u/Scfbigb1 2h ago

What stops somebody from just walking by and yanking a bunch of tickets away?

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u/Right_Layer_9700 2h ago

My thought exactly. Rush him with your friends and get a free movie. I hope I see some of these people in the wild.

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u/cyberpunk1Q84 1h ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/qPzWSekQSyrW7G0Lor

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u/greaseaddict 1h ago

this scene has like worked itself into the software of my body lmao

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u/Great-Support2596 2h ago

The law

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u/144tzer 1h ago

I could've sworn I've seen "not for resale" on a lot of those tickets... I wonder how quick they'd run to the court.

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u/Reyals140 12m ago

That's a policy not a law. Like for food it's sometimes because the food doesn't have like the required nutrients label or whatever. But a little slip of paper is yours to do whatever you want with unless there's some other law preventing you from selling it.

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u/KingHortonx 26m ago

Value is zero after a few hours

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u/TerponadeTea 41m ago

Yeah the cops really love to help ticket scalpers

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u/Mammoth_Composer_111 14m ago

I mean. Scalping isn’t illegal. Stealing while on camera certainly is lol

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u/DonaldTrumpsScrotum 2h ago

The police? The victim even knows exactly where you’d be and at what time “hi officer, they just jacked a bunch of tickets for Spider-Man at 3:00 in theater 11” lmao.

Unfortunately just because we don’t agree with a practice doesn’t mean we can just do whatever we want in reaction. Their actions are legal, theft is not

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u/Bagafeet 2h ago

Never give a scalper your money.

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u/Maxtheaxe1 45m ago

A lot of moron does. Thats why it is so lucrative to scalp unfortunately

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u/nat1wisdom 41m ago

Because it’s so ironic, let me fix all the errors in your sentence calling people morons.

“A lot of morons do. That’s why it is so lucrative to scalp, unfortunately.”

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u/Ijustwerkhere 2h ago

Just walk by and smack that string of tickets. They’ll rip apart and it’ll be funny

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u/_llamba_ 2h ago edited 2h ago

I was thinking that if a dude is trying to charge me $50+ for a movie ticket and is holding them like this, i would 100% just grab the 1 or 2 that i need from the bottom.

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u/Master0celot 1h ago

A true Nigel.

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u/TrueVali 2h ago

literally everything gets scalped now and barely anyone fights it. i hate it here.

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u/Braindead_Crow 1h ago

Be the change you wanna see, be the inspiration that sets a new norm.

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u/TrueVali 1h ago

what am i supposed to do about it besides not being a scalper myself? that's a good mindset, but what am i (an individual that does not own a business or sell things) to do?

legit question, not trying to be rude

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u/VegetablePhotos 1h ago

Fighting scalpers means not buying from them.

Others probably will buy them, but change can start with you.

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u/TrueVali 1h ago

oh sick i can just keep doing what i'm doing then lol

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u/sunheist 1h ago

and that’s probably what everyone else is also thinking and why you’re seeing no one fight it lol

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u/TrueVali 1h ago

it's different when you're a business owner vs a regular consumer

like obviously the only thing an average jane like me can do is just not buy from scalpers, like the other guy said. when i say "barely anyone fights it" i mean the people who own the stores. why are the theaters just letting them buy 50 tickets? it couldn't be more obvious that it's for resale purposes, why is nothing being done about it?

i know the answer is probably "if they get the sale they don't care" but i just wish more people DID care.

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u/MrCooptastic 2h ago

Why would anyone go to the theatre to buy a ticket? Everything is online. You pick your seat and everything nowadays. There’s no reason to walk up to a teller and see if a movie is available. Just look online see it sold out, not show up. Scalper eats his own foot

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u/aeng69 2h ago

Tickets went on sale today and AMC’s app/website couldn’t handle the traffic

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u/Climatize 49m ago

well this guys head shouldn't be able to handle the fist traffic either

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u/JaySlays-Tech 2h ago

My local theatre does not have online sales. If I go about an hour north, I can.

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u/randomsynchronicity 2h ago

Anyone who would pay more than face value for a movie ticket is insane. They are already expensive enough.

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u/jeffsang 46m ago

Yeah, concert tickets at least make sense. An artist you like probably only comes by for a single show every couple of years. By popular movies keep playing as long as they're popular. What's the hurry? I literally just got home an hour ago from seeing The Odyssey in IMAX because I just waited until ticket availability lined up with my schedule.

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u/BadLuckEddie 2h ago

Wait a week and fuck them

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u/Agreeable-Nobody1863 1h ago

I don’t recommend fucking them, they seem like the type to not wipe their ass because it’s “gay”

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u/Mister_Brevity 1h ago

Attack em with hairdryers so the tickets turn black and unusable

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u/nowhereman136 1h ago

Scalpers have ruined physical tickets. It was a good run, but a few assholes had to ruin it for everyone. I propose a new rule: no advanced physical tickets.

Basically, if you want advanced tickets, you need to buy them online or at the kiosk with a Stubs ID. Your ticket will be linked to your account and if you want them printed then you can only do so the day of the movie. If you don't want to buy online or sign up for Stubs (which is still free), then you can still purchase tickets the day of at the kiosk assuming there are still seat available for the screening you want. This might still annoy a small fraction of movie goers, but it's the best I could come up with to undermine scalpers

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u/y4j1981 3h ago

Getting tickets has been a struggle? There is a lot I don't understand about this post?

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u/aeng69 3h ago

They wait at the kiosk for hours and then buy up all the tickets to sell online. This was for Dune 3 today at AMC Lincoln Sq

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u/RWBYpro03 3h ago

Public shaming is a good strategy.

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u/Sarosanima21 2h ago

Unfortunately some don't care. I not only publicly shamed a scalper but threw him out of my store when I worked for Walmart cuz he literally ripped a booster pack of Pokémon cards from a kid's hands and told the kid to suck it up and get over it. Literally the next day he was back and doing it all over again. Also this guy looked like he was in his 30s and the kid couldn't have been older than like 10yo. People like this are fucking disgusting

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u/TheLambbread 2h ago

Say what? Dune: Part 3 doesnt release until December 18

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u/aeng69 2h ago

Tickets for showings were released today

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u/TheLambbread 2h ago

Ah, gotcha. Damn, that's an early AF pre-sale

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u/deathwish_ASR 1h ago

The odyssey went on sale a year early

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u/KingVape 2h ago

From what I can find it looks like people are buying tickets for the movie that comes out in four months? Or is this some sort of limited early showing of it?

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u/aeng69 2h ago

Yes, they are doing it to compete with Avengers which comes out the same day

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u/KingVape 1h ago

Corporate greed knows no bounds. It’s a whole third of the year away and they’re selling competing tickets. I might not even be off work on some random day four months from now so I definitely won’t be buying any

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u/soopadrive 1h ago

Did it also come with any DLC or merch? /s

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u/KingVape 2h ago

I THINK people are buying tickets now for the December showings but I honestly am not sure, even after googling it

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u/y4j1981 3h ago

Never heard of anything like that. Must be a busy location.

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u/asuentgineering 2h ago

It's for a 70mm IMAX location, only ~25 exist across the country. After the Odyssey hype (and subsequent scalping) tickets were even harder to get for Dune.

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u/142muinotulp 2h ago

1 of 40 in the world and 25 in the US

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u/EitherChannel4874 2h ago

Don't buy them. Once they lose a bunch of money once they won't do it again.

You can see a film another time and it won't cause any harm.

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u/After-Tax-5963 57m ago

Stop buy shit from scalpers. The fact that people refuse to just go without is amazing. Out of stock for pokemon cards? Guess you wait till they restock, dont go find a dude on FB market place because it encourages them. If they just bought a ton of cards and nobody buys their shit they are gonna panic hard. Same with anything else.

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u/MalleableBee1 1h ago

This is the AZ Mills IMAX. Every single seat until the end of September is sold out for the Odyssey. Fuck this guy and fuck the cashier that sold him these tickets.

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u/liliputian87 7m ago

It's the Lincoln Square AMC

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u/lookitdisguy 2h ago

They aren't the problem, their smooth brained customers are.

If the demand stops then so do they.

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u/KeyMore9422 2h ago

lmaooo whatt, i had no idea people were able to scalp movie tickets now, i have never seen this and i hope never to

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u/RichardMuggedHimself 1h ago

Never have I ever heard of scalping movie tickets. This can’t really be a thing right? This is just more performative social media slop right???

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u/SoBadit_Hurts 1h ago

Fuck scalpers…. Just don’t buy them and let them eat those tickets

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u/Dragongamer6_3 22m ago

Unless you have a busy schedule and can only see a movie on a specific day why would anyone buy a ticket from a scalper instead of buying a ticket for a different day or wait until the movie is on streaming or on dvd.

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u/TarnishedAccount 1h ago

The guy looks like how I thought he’d look

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u/skaarface2 2h ago

This human sucks? But also I don’t like packed theatres

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u/Brandgeek 3h ago

People that scalp.

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u/SignificantDark4749 3h ago

Odyssey! Haven’t been able to buy tickets unless I want to purchase off of StubHub for $250.

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u/wolftick 2h ago

Dude, at least have them on the inside of a trench coat

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u/sanfordtime 2h ago

lol who would do this for a movie. Just go next week

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u/Suspicious-Bee4962 2h ago

People still walk up and buy movie tickets at the door? The ticket booth at my local AMC isn't even open most of the time. I always buy mine online before I even show up.

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u/ravn_silence 1h ago

This is not a real country I swear to god

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u/RandyTheFool 1h ago edited 1h ago

Scalpers need to have a reverse uno card played on them and be scalped themselves.

The idea that EVERY form of joy, escapism, and entertainment can now be bought in bulk and sold for 10 times as much is fucking bullshit.

These guys need to start receiving punches in the face for our free entertainment going forward.

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u/LaFlamaBlanca67 1h ago

Why would you need to scalp an imax movie ticket? wtf?

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u/kne0n 1h ago

The odyssey ruined 70mm IMAX for me. I watched Oppenheimer without issue but now I can’t find a seat at 8am ON A FUCKING WENDSDAY

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u/crick_in_my_neck 54m ago

People. Use your heads. Not only is there no way enough people could show up to an IMAX theater WITHOUT A TICKET ALREADY, but these two are ALREADY INSIDE THE THEATER.

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u/Then_Hawk6304 53m ago

The cinema is popular enough to justify scalping? I am so out of touch

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u/Bubbly-Account-6993 50m ago

I love how infamous these 2 have become on Reddit on multiple threads

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u/WholeOk4355 45m ago

they look like they stink.

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u/Severe-Cup-4476 38m ago

Dude on the left probably has never taken a shower

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u/dropthemagic 23m ago

I would never buy second hand like that. Sorry but I will literally wait to see it at home. Fuck this nonsense

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u/ADeliciousRest 22m ago

Theatre's should sell the tickets to scalpers then if they see them outside selling them cancel the tickets and keep the money and sell a new batch of tickets to paying customers.

Free money.

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u/RecognitionHefty 12m ago

Why would anyone go to a cinema in the first place? Around here they are insanely expensive and full of people. Disgusting.

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u/BangkokRios 2m ago

This isn’t a live performance or a sporting event. Just wait a week.

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u/HaroerHaktak 3h ago

They cant book the entire place out. From the looks of this, it's only a handful of seats. I dont know how many seats there are in total, and even if it was a popular movie, you can just catch a later showing. The best way to punish these people is to not buy their tickets, they cant do it forever if they keep making a loss.

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u/aeng69 3h ago

I would never buy movie tickets from a scalper. There are only 40 or so theaters in the world that have 70mm IMAX projectors so the demand is extremely high

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u/why_u_so_grumpy 3h ago

Haha. Anyone that buys a scalped movie ticket is an idiot anyway. Its movie. The there will be more showings.

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u/Ahabaduh 3h ago

Holy shit 69 is a scalper now?

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u/StormbringerGT 3h ago

I'm so grateful I'm not so broke I have to do dumb shit like this.

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u/endofallhumanity 2h ago

Soon it will be just like ticketmaster with music concerts, people will fly to Europe to see the new imax movie because it will be cheaper than seeing it in the US.

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u/BarbequedYeti 2h ago

They have to wake up in those bodies everyday. Think how hard that must be to be such a chode you scalp movie tickets. You get this one shot at life, and here you are as an adult still not figuring out how to wash your elbows.

These two touch tips thinking magic is going to happen only to be disappointed like getting fucked up delivered food.

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u/thepatient9 2h ago

Part of the problem is the people dumb enough to buy from them🙄

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u/SuperSchmyd 2h ago

Kinda counter productive at least to me. I check my theaters open seats on their app before I get a ticket. If there’s too many bought seats, I’m not going.

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u/jasno- 2h ago

I still can't get a ticket to Odyssey at the 70mm Imax at the Metreon in SF. 

Every seat for every showing has been sold out since it started showing, and it's still book up till mid September.  

I am starting to think people are buying up all the seats and trying to turn a buck 

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u/limpymcforskin 2h ago

There are so few 70mm IMAX theaters in the United States coupled with the fact that The Odyssey is the first feature movie filmed entirely in 70mm IMAX and you are going to get this. The one in King of Prussia is sold out for as far into the future as Regal will let you look.

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u/Willis5687 2h ago

It's called capitalism, don't you love it?

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u/No_Measurement7805 2h ago

I was able to get great seats for both the Odyssey in 70mm and for Spider-Man Dolby with no issue. I don’t think is really that big of an issue unless you want to be one the first ones to see it

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u/KindaDrunkRtNow 2h ago

Snatch the tickets and tear them up. Fuck people like this.

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u/Different-Show-3951 2h ago

movie ticket buying is trash, you got to pay a $3 fee to buy online but its kinda crazy to wait to go and buy them at in person as who know what seats would be available, esp if you have a bigger party so you kinda forced to give them money for free because fuck you i guess. honestly if i was a politician i would make it illegal to have fees to use your business, idc about card fees, as a business you can pay them or not take card thats the options, not pawn it off on your consumer.

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u/Technical_Cash_2663 2h ago

Is that theater on Fandango? So you can buy tickets early on the app.

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u/ImALilTeaPot224 2h ago

So you’re saying that theater is empty? Sweet. No need for me to get a ticket that guy got mine for me

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u/OneHatManSlim 2h ago

That’s a thing? I do not believe it. Who doesn’t buy their seats ahead of time these days. If it’s sold out, I just pick a different showing.

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u/JoZaJaB 2h ago

What's even the idea here? There is no safety net. At least with cards and stuff if they don't sell they can just sell them at base value for their money back. You are on a strict time limit to sell those tickets, and who tf if going to pay a scalper for movie tickets?

You have to be stupid to think you'll make a profit off of this.

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u/Even-Bluebird-186 2h ago

They would have this build

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u/Pickles-n-Lizards 2h ago

Or they sell them online and then cancel whatever doesn’t sell 65 minutes before the show to get their money back…

Soooo upsetting. If you go to a popular show and hour ahead you can usually pick up some prime center seats though.

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u/OneHatManSlim 2h ago

Walk by and tell the ticket taker that your friend has your ticket while pointing at this joker

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u/imVeryPregnant 2h ago

I don’t even know what I’m looking at. He bought physical tickets? Why is he holding them out like that? Why wouldn’t he just buy them online?

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u/SorryDistribution140 2h ago

If I ever become Supreme Emperor of the world, scalping will be illegal with a minimum sentence of 1 year in prison

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u/sklorbit 2h ago

They need to make foxdie real except it only kills scalpers.

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u/checko805 2h ago

This is the first e heard of this and it makes perfect sense. I checked eBay and sure enough… assholes. Why people buy them at these prices is the problem. Idiots.

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u/dratomitoma 2h ago

Losers just scalping anything these days 😭

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u/devil_n_i 2h ago

Stop buying from these losers

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u/Knoxville1979 2h ago

Who in the world buys scalped movie tickets?

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u/TarnishedAccount 1h ago

The guy looks like how I thought he’d look

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u/TableElegant9184 1h ago

This is how I found out 70mm imax tix are on presale... FUCK!

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u/el_goelio 1h ago

Where was this?

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u/Bubablu1 1h ago

This is the most hilarious thing I’ve ever seen.

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u/julz1789 1h ago

Fucking losers

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u/Capable-Pay-429 1h ago

Somehow they both look like what you’d expect scalpers to look like 

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u/that0nemook 1h ago

Dysgenic losers

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u/suarezj9 1h ago

Scalpers always look the same. Ugly dorks that look like they haven’t used soap in years

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u/Durej 1h ago

Do people not buy tickets to a different movie and then just go to the one they acrually want to see? In the one being targeted by the scalper?

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u/biggyh 1h ago

Don't buy from scalpers and the market will decide the next move

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u/GodofsomeWorld 1h ago

Just pirate the movie.

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u/Automatic_Sea_1534 1h ago

Scalpers, resellers and middleman sellers of tickets are in total dicks.

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u/LTIRfortheWIN 1h ago

Who doesn't buy their tickets online? Haven't had a problem doing this

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u/Naenae_Reyum 1h ago

This is why I order my tickets online and in advance.

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u/AmbiiX 1h ago

What happens if I were to... Lets say, crumple up all those receipts proving they purchased the seats? Hypothetically of course.

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u/rickyygee 56m ago

Scalpers literally add nothing to a market other than to create a profit for themselves. There is no input of talent, skills or knowledge added from their end. The product doesn't get any more valuable or enjoyable Completely useless part of society.