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Postby fakename » Mon Jan 07, 2019 11:08 am

AMC a list is fantastic if you have an AMC nearby. Not as much art house, obviously.

Moviepass dropped eticketing for landmark theaters, so there have been zero movies available in my area for the past week. Gonna cancel soon. It was a good ride while it lasted.
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Postby rixx » Mon Jan 07, 2019 11:15 am

fakename wrote:AMC a list is fantastic if you have an AMC nearby. Not as much art house, obviously.

yep. AMC also is by far the easiest to use, totally intuitive and smooth

sinemia is the most similar to OG moviepass, it's just clunkier and the customer service is hellish. but it's really the only usable service for independent & arthouse theaters. they have an $8.99 for 3 movies a month promo price going on right now. the only downsides are a $20 initiation fee and a 2 week waiting period after you sign up (I don't know if this is still around or not) which you can bypass for a one-time $9.99 "accelerated activation fee"
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Postby davideotape » Tue Jan 08, 2019 12:51 am

amc a-list is great. it’s literally 12 movies a month of any kind (3d, imax... i kinda wish that “dbox” nonsense was anywhere near me to try that)

two theaters nearby play the mainstream arthouse movies so i can scratch that itch or see the big dumb one id never pay real $$ to see
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Postby Brouhaha » Sat Jan 12, 2019 11:36 pm

I read that over half of MP subscribers have cancelled

They just sent me an email for the 3x plan for 6.95 a month, lol.
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Postby Bob511 » Sun Jan 13, 2019 1:24 am

Brouhaha wrote:They just sent me an email for the 3x plan for 6.95 a month, lol.

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Postby Brouhaha » Mon Jan 14, 2019 5:12 am

i missed this part
*$6.95 a month when you purchase 2 or more Select Plans for 12-months.


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Postby Brouhaha » Thu Jan 31, 2019 1:13 am

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Postby davideotape » Thu Jan 31, 2019 5:42 am

that $20 sinemia deal seems exactly like what im looking for. they stink to use though? added fees, weird process, etc?
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Postby The Priest » Thu Jan 31, 2019 6:51 am

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Postby rixx » Thu Jan 31, 2019 8:42 am

davideotape wrote:that $20 sinemia deal seems exactly like what im looking for. they stink to use though? added fees, weird process, etc?

They don't stink to use, they are actually pretty easy once you get pass some bullshit things about them

1. When you sign up, you have to wait two weeks for some "cardless activation process" to complete. You can pay $10 to activate it immediately. I just waited the two weeks tho.

2. For online tickets, you do have to pay for the convenience fee that the ticket website charges. HOWEVER, if you choose your movie on Facebook.com/movies, it'll take you to Fandango for checkout and the transaction fee will be waived. It'll ask you on Sinemia to input how much the ticket convenience fee was, and if you used this facebook promo, you just put in "I didn't pay any convenience fee"

3. There is also a bullshit transaction fee now for online tickets that you have to pay through Sinemia. It's $1.80. However, if you get the physical Sinemia card, there is no transaction fees.

4. I believe it costs $25 to order a physical Sinemia card. I haven't gotten one yet but I probably will so I don't have to deal with transaction fees anymore. The people on the Sinemia reddit say they really like it.

5. The Sinemia customer service (via email or Twitter DM) is horrible. Sometimes, very rarely, I'll get a prompt response on Twitter, but it usually takes hours.

Despite all this, I like Sinemia because the app is really easy to use and I've never had a problem buying tickets online. They give you a virtual Mastercard card info and you just plug it into your online ticket purchasing website, I use Fandango, and you click purchase! couldn't be easier imho

Since I typed all this up for ya, if you decide to sign up, use my link and we'll both get $20 in Sinemia credit :D https://www.sinemia.com/R/J8YK4G
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Postby mellowgold » Thu Jan 31, 2019 9:10 am

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Postby delgriffith » Thu Jan 31, 2019 9:52 am

Use RIXX's link! I agree w/ him on all fronts re: Sinemia!
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Postby rixx » Thu Jan 31, 2019 10:10 am

thanks del thanks mel :D :D

oh and the new rollover thing is definitely cool but i've figured out my own workaround. take this month for instance, january is the worst month for movies all year, and I didn't use any of my 3 tickets. every day for the past three days, i've purchased a ticket thru fandango with one of my Sinemia credits, and then returned the ticket for credit on Fandango, which allows returns up to the posted showtime. and I used the Alamo Drafthouse in Brooklyn since it's nearby my work and I could walk over there on my lunch and check in. so now I have like $45 in Fandango credit that I can use for whatever, whenever
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Postby deadwolfbones » Thu Jan 31, 2019 11:11 am

I have a month left on my Costco MoviePass and it's actually been pretty great for the past month or two. Just have to get to the theater exactly when they open in the morning to make sure you get a ticket. :lol:
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Postby fakename » Thu Jan 31, 2019 12:54 pm

you can also disable background data, open the app at 8am, select the movie you want to see, and then not close or refresh the app.

saw Destroyer that way this weekend, and the guy at the box office was audibly surprised when my card wasn't declined.
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Postby deadwolfbones » Thu Jan 31, 2019 3:32 pm

fakename wrote:you can also disable background data, open the app at 8am, select the movie you want to see, and then not close or refresh the app.

saw Destroyer that way this weekend, and the guy at the box office was audibly surprised when my card wasn't declined.


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Postby davideotape » Fri Feb 01, 2019 9:12 am

man the yearly bill at $250 is killing me, i thought it was monthly. lol it triggered my bank fraud alert
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Postby rixx » Fri Feb 01, 2019 9:25 am

davideotape wrote:man the yearly bill at $250 is killing me, i thought it was monthly. lol it triggered my bank fraud alert

they used to offer both monthly and yearly. i'm sure the monthly plans will come back at some point. I'm still on a monthly $7.99 for 3 movies a month plan. I also just got this message, "You have an extra 1 movie day available that has rolled over from last month. Enjoy!" even though I used all three movies last month, but I'm not gonna complain about a free movie! lol

did you use my referral link btw? it's all good if you didn't but I didn't see the $20 credit yet so I just wanted to ask before I talk to customer support
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Postby davideotape » Fri Feb 01, 2019 9:32 am

i did but didnt process it yet and i took the fraud alert as a reminder that im not sure i can swing $240 all in one pop just yet
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Postby davideotape » Fri Feb 01, 2019 9:41 am

also— it said $10. only $20 if i had a moviepass sub i was moving over. amc’s didnt seem to be honored
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Postby rixx » Fri Feb 01, 2019 9:49 am

davideotape wrote:also— it said $10. only $20 if i had a moviepass sub i was moving over. amc’s didnt seem to be honored

ah ok. $10 is still pretty rad. i knew it was $10 previously but I had seen this banner by the wallet page yesterday so I thought maybe it had gone up (that banner isn't a link to a page with more details or anything, it's just an image I guess)

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Postby rixx » Fri Feb 01, 2019 9:51 am

davideotape wrote:i did but didnt process it yet and i took the fraud alert as a reminder that im not sure i can swing $240 all in one pop just yet

honestly the monthly plans could come back any day now. their promos come and go pretty quickly. as you can see by this reddit page, the monthly plans had reappeared as recently as three days ago:

https://old.reddit.com/r/Sinemia/comments/akxyst/monthly_plans_have_returned/
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Postby pink snake » Sat Feb 02, 2019 8:13 am

Sinemia should really have a push notification thing to remind you to check-in. I forgot last night.
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Postby tarantula » Sat Feb 02, 2019 8:18 am

you fellows take seeing movies seriously
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Postby The Priest » Sat Feb 02, 2019 8:31 am

They're "films," sir
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Postby tarantula » Sat Feb 02, 2019 8:36 am

from the scum on a pond to the gunk in yr eye, film is something i'll pay a monthly subscription to keep seeing
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Postby rixx » Sat Feb 02, 2019 8:56 am

tarantula wrote:you fellows take seeing movies seriously

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Postby deadwolfbones » Mon Feb 04, 2019 2:15 pm

RIXX wrote:Since I typed all this up for ya, if you decide to sign up, use my link and we'll both get $20 in Sinemia credit :D https://www.sinemia.com/R/J8YK4G


Yo RIXX, my gf and I are gonna use yr link. She just went through it and it just dumped her to the front page of their site. No obvious indication of referral credit. Is that correct?
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Postby rixx » Tue Feb 05, 2019 6:16 pm

deadwolfbones wrote:
RIXX wrote:Since I typed all this up for ya, if you decide to sign up, use my link and we'll both get $20 in Sinemia credit :D https://www.sinemia.com/R/J8YK4G


Yo RIXX, my gf and I are gonna use yr link. She just went through it and it just dumped her to the front page of their site. No obvious indication of referral credit. Is that correct?

I got the $20 credit from her, thanks!! :)

did you guys get it too? it'll show up in the wallet on the lefthand side
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Postby deadwolfbones » Wed Feb 13, 2019 1:12 pm

I'm so fucking pissed at Sinemia already and I'm not even a subscriber yet.

Bought the $100 GC for $70 as part of the Valentine's sale. Turns out you can't actually use the GC until 2/14, when the prices will presumably rise to make the discount on the GC entirely worthless. Shady as fuck. They've already gone up $1/mo, actually.
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