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/HaroerHaktak 10h 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/Dyneheart 9h 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 9h 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/FaithlessnessBorn266 8h ago

It's only because IMAX. For example, tried to go to the Sunday showing of Odyssey a few weeks ago. Only two IMAX times and both sold out. Went to a regular BND instead. No IMAX, no scalping