To: the owners of every single movie ticket website
From: Mitchell Berg, cranky consumer
Re: Huh?
All,
I went out on your website – which one doesn’t matter, because you’re all pretty much the same – last night to try to buy a ticket to “Sully”.
Ticket prices are insane – I get that.
But below the ticket price, you added a two dollar “convenience fee”.
For two dollars, I’ll stand in the line for 40 seconds. I shut off the browser and went to the Riverview Theater to see “Blazing Saddles”.
But I had a brilliant idea. Stop charging the “convenience fee” to buy the ticket. But start selling concessions online, have them ready at a “will call” window for concessions when I get there, and I will pay the two dollars not to stand in line for my damn popcorn..
See to this.
That is all.
And whatever you do….when you pay for your snacks, say it comes to $7.87. You give the boy $10.12, expecting to get $3.25 back…..it creates CHAOS.
Fees…same with Stubhub. Thought I’d get a $6 dollar ticket to see the Twins play. Fees much more than doubles that price. I realize Stubhub is a business and needs to make money, but $10 in fees on a $6 ticket……
Thats… a pretty damn good idea
Chuck, if you give him $10.12 and expect $3.25 back on a $7.87 order, maybe….you need to work on your math, too. :^) Sorry, just couldn’t resist.
To the point, I’m kinda shocked Blazing Saddles is playing in theaters these days. I guess there is good news some places in America. :^)
Oh for the Christ sake…..I was so focused on the change part, I didn’t do the math on the dollars.
On a fun note, leaked Colin Powell email said (about Hillary)……”A 70-year person with a long track record, unbridled ambition, greedy, not transformational, with a husband still dicking bimbos at home”
$6 to watch the twins play this year is $7 too many.
Depends what you want, PoD. I’m a baseball fan and a casual fan of the Twins. I’ll watch a game for $6. $16 might be another issue, though.
But honestly, it’s tough to be a Saints game. Nice stadium, small, casual and close the action. And watching a bunch of guys who are good but not great makes for a much more engaging viewing experience for folks who are fans of baseball more than they’re fans of a specific team since no play is essentially a guaranteed outcome.
s/be a/beat/
Chuck on September 14, 2016 at 2:06 pm said:
Oh for the Christ sake…..I was so focused on the change part, I didn’t do the math on the dollars.
On a fun note, leaked Colin Powell email said (about Hillary)……”A 70-year person with a long track record, unbridled ambition, greedy, not transformational, with a husband still dicking bimbos at home”
This is how ABC news covered the leaked Powell emails:
Trump a ‘National Disgrace,’ Colin Powell Wrote in Hacked Emails
Newly revealed emails hacked from the private account of Republican former Secretary of State Colin Powell show the retired four-star general repeatedly blasting Donald Trump, describing him as a “national disgrace” who engaged in a “racist” movement.
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-national-disgrace-colin-powell-wrote-hacked-emails/story?id=42073252