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likeanunmadebed in ohnotheydidnt

Canadian scandal alert! Former Cineplex employee Tanner Zipchen was paid in Scene points

Feb 18, 2020 18:42

Backstory for our non-Canadians: Tanner Zipchen was the host of Cineplex's pre-movie show. Ie, the ads/previews/trivia portion one sees before a movie begins. When he was hired in 2015, Cineplex paid him 52,000 Scene points (frequent movie-watcher points) a year, equating to 1,000 a points a week to be "cashed in" for a free movie. Now the tea has ( Read more... )

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weighty_ghost February 19 2020, 01:14:12 UTC

so he gets like 50 free movies a year for his work?!

likeanunmadebed February 19 2020, 01:15:25 UTC

52! Plus free rentals.... although I know 0 people who rent stuff from Cineplex

littlebones February 19 2020, 01:20:28 UTC

isn't it 1500 points for a free film now? i already forgot what i paid on saturday.

likeanunmadebed February 19 2020, 01:37:45 UTC

oh ok you're right! In 2015 it would have been 1000 points

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littlebones February 19 2020, 01:21:43 UTC

i bank with scotia so i have like 18k scene points banked up. cineplex is still the better option to see a film in montreal - guzzo cinemas haven't been updated since the 90s and also don't take debit or let you pre-buy tickets.

being paid in scene points tho.... jesus

notoriousreign February 19 2020, 01:22:07 UTC

Wow wtf fuck Cineplex. I gave up on Timeplay YEARS ago because I swear it never loaded in time and after awhile I just stopped bothering.

yami_no_hoshi February 19 2020, 02:24:30 UTC

I feel like the prizes aren’t even that good anymore, they used to give out more scene points

notoriousreign February 19 2020, 02:28:07 UTC

Yeah man I'm not about to spend a half an hour waiting for the stupid app to work just to not win a free popcorn lol

justrachna February 19 2020, 03:43:42 UTC

the prizes suck now. once i won a free medium pizza! now unless you are the top winner, you get next to nothing

drakefn February 19 2020, 01:28:03 UTC

That is completely fucked up.

I have a few thousand scene points, I used to get lots through the carrot app. I'm excited it's coming back, hopefully you'll get scene points again.

likeanunmadebed February 19 2020, 01:38:37 UTC

ooh what's the carrot app?

drakefn February 19 2020, 02:30:27 UTC

It was an app in BC and I think one or two other provinces that was encouraging healthy lifestyles. You'd do little surveys and stuff about healthy eating and exercise and earn points. You could earn scene points, save on more points and I think a few others? (You'd pick the one you wanted to earn.) Then they added in a step counter that connected to your health app on your phone and if you made your goal for the day you got points, and then you got more points when you hit streaks. It was a neat app and actually did make me look a little differently at my diet and what not.

It closed down last year but they announced last month or so that they would be coming back sometime but no details yet.

drakefn February 19 2020, 02:38:03 UTC

https://www.carrotrewards.ca/?kid=1597D1

That's my link if you're interested in signing up for their waitlist (or you can just go to carrotrewards.ca). I think you move up the waitlist if people use your link or something.

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