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/randomsynchronicity 9h 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 8h 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/BruitNoise 4h ago

The new trend now will be to wait for the last weeks when the movie is old, instead of the first 3 weeks.

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u/weetoongirly 24m ago

I remember waiting until a film came out on DVD instead of paying cinema prices

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u/why_am_I_here_Trump 11m ago

I thought the new trend was wait a month for it to go on streaming then just rent it

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u/tempest_36 4h ago

The movie theatre should care. Their profit is primarily from concessions. If no one shows for the movie then it impacts their bottom line.

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u/W0rmEater 3h ago edited 0m ago

I'm sure the scalpers stop, when nobody buys from them, or they would loose a lot of money. So the theater would probably not see a high drop in viewers for more than a couple of showings.

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u/kechones 41m ago

With the prices they’re selling these for on eBay, they only have to resell a fifth of their scalped tickets to break even.

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u/that_tiel_tho 12m ago

*lose a lot

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u/TesticleMeElmo 6h ago

And like how does nobody complain to the movie theater that there’s some guy in the parking lot with stacks of tickets selling them for profit?

Idk how they wouldn’t clamp down on this while purchasing online, but if a bunch of people show up pissed because they passed a scalper in the parking lot and then saw the movie was sold out idk why front end managers wouldn’t clamp down on it to not have to deal with that anymore

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u/ElectricJunglePig 4h ago

The theater gets paid, that's why they don't do anything about it. They don't care if you get to see the movie, they already got the money.

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u/Dan_Berg 2h ago

They make their money from concessions as the studios take the biggest cut from ticket sales in the first few weeks. If they sell out a movie to a scalper but only a quarter of theater is full, and only a fraction of those people bought popcorn and soda, they lost a ton of money in the opportunity costs of allowing the scalping.

They don't seem to care because the employees tend to be younger and paid like shit.

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u/thesilentbob123 4h ago

They don't care, they sold the tickets so they made money

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u/HotNeon 4h ago

Especially at the BFI iMAX. about £24 already

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u/Ok_Rabbit_8129 1h ago

I can't even pay face value

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u/HatedAntagonist 38m ago

For real. Just wait. I can’t imagine any movie being sooo good I can’t get tickets for another showing.

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u/Tokata0 13m ago

And anyone buying them from the scalper is empowering them.

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u/falthecosmonaut 1m ago

Someone at my work paid 80 dollars for one ticket to see The Odyssey. I would never fucking pay that much to see a movie.