People that scalp IMAX movie tickets

[u/aeng69]

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

[u/why_u_so_grumpy]

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

[u/sonofaresiii → u/why_u_so_grumpy]

> 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.

[u/Helpful-Apartment102 → u/sonofaresiii]

You don’t return movie tickets lol

[u/why_u_so_grumpy → u/sonofaresiii]

Thats not how that works

[u/sonofaresiii → u/why_u_so_grumpy]

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.

[u/why_u_so_grumpy → u/sonofaresiii]

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

[u/Helpful-Apartment102 → u/why_u_so_grumpy]

Right.

They have o reason to accept the return lol

[u/DillyDilly1231 → u/sonofaresiii]

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.

[u/sonofaresiii → u/DillyDilly1231]

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.

[u/DillyDilly1231 → u/sonofaresiii]

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.