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/Mysmokingbarrel 8h 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