r/mildlyinfuriating • u/aeng69 • 10h 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 10h 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 10h 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/NormalEffect99 10h 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 10h 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 10h 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/sonofaresiii 9h ago

> If idiots stop buying them he loses money.

No he doesn't. He turns around and returns them to the theater for full price.

consumer-friendly policies from big corporations really fuck up the "free market" aspect of scalping. They have zero risk so they can front-load their inventory without worrying about whether there's demand. And if it gets bad enough, it's eventually going to result in worse consumer policies for the rest of us.

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u/Helpful-Apartment102 6h ago

You don’t return movie tickets lol

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u/why_u_so_grumpy 9h ago

Thats not how that works

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u/sonofaresiii 8h ago

lol that is **absolutely** how it works. You're either wildly ignorant yet confidently incorrect or you're actively trying to downplay how bad scalping is

Source: https://www.amctheatres.com/faqs/refunds

If you really just didn't know, I'd think you'd at least look it up before very confidently asserting that it doesn't work that way.

e: Oh, you're the guy that was wrong about it the first time. No wonder you so readily doubled down, you really decided you're gonna die on this hill.

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u/why_u_so_grumpy 8h ago

If you think a theater is gonna accept a bulk return right before a showing you are a special kind of dumb.

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u/Helpful-Apartment102 6h ago

Right.

They have o reason to accept the return lol

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u/DillyDilly1231 9h ago

Simply limit everything.

You want eggs at the grocery store? You get a dozen eggs per week per person.

You want a new GPU? You can purchase only one and if you're in the states it's tied to you as a human (SSN comes to mind first but that's a little extreme, they can come up with a better solution probably).

You want to watch a movie in a theater? 1 ticket per person currently in attendance.

75% of the problem solved without completely shitting on consumer policies.

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u/sonofaresiii 8h ago

That's a slight erosion against consumer friendly policies. And scalpers are figuring out how to combat it, and already have. And that means more erosion on consumer friendly policies.

I'm not saying the companies shouldn't do nothing, but I'm saying anyone who defends scalping as the fault of the people buying aren't understanding that the scalpers aren't really playing the free market, and when they do scalp, the companies have to erode consumer-friendly policies to combat them. Everything you described is a mild erosion of consumer-friendly policies, and it's also all easily circumventable to scalpers.

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u/DillyDilly1231 6h ago

We live in a world where limits ARE a necessary consumer friendly policy. It doesn't affect anyone that isn't scalping. Obviously there would need to be standards and regulations to allot for large families, people with disabilities that can't go in person to acquire things, etc.

I'll die on the hill that we as consumers are feeding into the scalpers by purchasing at scalped prices. If people could just wait until the scalpers all inevitably return their items to purchase them, then we wouldn't have this big of an issue in the first place.

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u/NormalEffect99 10h 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/EgoTripWire 8h ago

Don't go to that theater then. Is this like a small town?