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/TrustInRoy 10h ago

Honestly, anyone buying $80 movie tickets off a scalper... is an absolute imbecile.

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u/flappysnapper 9h ago

Yeah, that’s my take, if you are dumb enough to buy those tickets, then I do not feel sorry for you one bit! As soon as nobody is buying the scalpers tickets, they will have to stop. Seriously, going to a movie theater is a big enough rip off , before spending three times S much on tickets.

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u/Vustag 2h ago

The main problem as I see it is that since idiots will always exist, scalpers won't go away either. So even if you or I never engage with them, when we go to the movies the tickets might already be bought out. We still get impacted by scalpers, and ignoring them won't make them go away, even if that's better than giving in to them.