Edwards Cinema and Fandango are Child Rapists
Okay, now that I have your attention, I must tell you that this isn't exactly true. What they are is con artists at best, thieves at worst and bastards always. I am breaking my LJ radio silence to tell you this, so strap in and listen up.
Two days ago I bought a ticket to see Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (which was pretty good, by the way) for the wrong time and day. I ended up seeing it elsewhere at midnight. Today I got through to their customer service and they told me that I was shit out of luck. A refund would be impossible. Impossible. A huge corporation cannot refund me ten dollars for a movie I never watched because of a simple, silly error. Impossible. Nuts to that.
Not only that, but Fandango has the gall to charge a 1.50 "convenience charge" for buying tickets online. As if some representative from Fandango had to leave their office and personally buy the tickets for me instead of a program written by an Asian computer science major from Berkley. Ticketmaster has been pulling this same shit for years, but at least when I get ripped off from them its to see Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds live and not a Harry Potter movie that I would have been fine with watching on HBO in a year or two.
In short: Fuck Fandango and Edwards Theaters. I want each and every one of you within my realm of influence to boycott these assholes. I don't expect any sort of change or apology or refund, but I want to at least take the ten dollars from them that they rightfully owe me. Honestly, I don't see the difference between this and someone stealing something from me. I made a mistake and their massive corporation is completely incapable of meeting me half-way on this. Fuck that. And fuck them.
So, in the mean time, I am officially not going to any of these fuckasses' theaters ever again. You're officially on the shit list, Edwards and Fandango.
Spread the word.
Two days ago I bought a ticket to see Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (which was pretty good, by the way) for the wrong time and day. I ended up seeing it elsewhere at midnight. Today I got through to their customer service and they told me that I was shit out of luck. A refund would be impossible. Impossible. A huge corporation cannot refund me ten dollars for a movie I never watched because of a simple, silly error. Impossible. Nuts to that.
Not only that, but Fandango has the gall to charge a 1.50 "convenience charge" for buying tickets online. As if some representative from Fandango had to leave their office and personally buy the tickets for me instead of a program written by an Asian computer science major from Berkley. Ticketmaster has been pulling this same shit for years, but at least when I get ripped off from them its to see Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds live and not a Harry Potter movie that I would have been fine with watching on HBO in a year or two.
In short: Fuck Fandango and Edwards Theaters. I want each and every one of you within my realm of influence to boycott these assholes. I don't expect any sort of change or apology or refund, but I want to at least take the ten dollars from them that they rightfully owe me. Honestly, I don't see the difference between this and someone stealing something from me. I made a mistake and their massive corporation is completely incapable of meeting me half-way on this. Fuck that. And fuck them.
So, in the mean time, I am officially not going to any of these fuckasses' theaters ever again. You're officially on the shit list, Edwards and Fandango.
Spread the word.