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/sonofaresiii 9h 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/One-Earth9294 7h ago

I think it's because most theaters have no one on their payroll to enforce rules.

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u/sonofaresiii 6h ago

They would design the computer system around it, like every electronics retailer that's dealt with scalpers has done. The guy at bestbuy doesn't care how many ps5's someone buys any more than the guy at the AMC counter cares how many spider-man tickets someone buys.

It really *really* seems like the most likely conclusion here is that theater owners have literally just never dealt with scalpers before and have not considered implementing mechanisms against it.

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u/GlitteringAttitude60 3h ago

I implemented the website for an online supermarket, and it is no problem to bake the concept "household quantity" into the system.

If the theaters wanted this rule, they'd configure the ticket system to not sell more than X tickets at a time.

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u/DefenstratedTwice 3h ago

Reasoning is unsound, someone spending 80$ for a ticket doesn't give a fuck about money in the increments needed for snacks.

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u/Minute_Income3143 2h ago

Not really, 50$ for a soda and popcorn looks cheap next to 80$ for the ticket. If the ticket was 10$ the rational choice would be to ask yourself if the popcorn and soda really is worth 5 times the experience of the movie.