yeah so.... who's in for slender man????
― mortal kombats fill your eyes (Doctor Casino), Monday, 13 August 2018 16:47 (six years ago) link
pretty amazing how the service has evolved into three tiers: e-ticket theaters, slender man theaters, and rare oddball theaters that have only 2/3 of their offerings purged (and whose remains probably won't be there by the time you arrive). the first of these at least give me a shot at seeing Cameron Post and BlacKkKlansman this week so that's cool.
― mortal kombats fill your eyes (Doctor Casino), Monday, 13 August 2018 16:59 (six years ago) link
I don't know if this is true, but from what i understand, even annual sign ups are trickled out to MP on a monthly basis - so even though you paid a year in advance, the credit card company holds onto the whole amount and gives up 1/12 of it, so MP is getting revenue every day from these (as well as the normal monthly memberships).
― Nhex, Monday, 13 August 2018 17:06 (six years ago) link
i believe that is correct!
― mortal kombats fill your eyes (Doctor Casino), Monday, 13 August 2018 17:17 (six years ago) link
is there some industry-wide credit card standard for that? seems off to me
― mh, Monday, 13 August 2018 17:33 (six years ago) link
https://www.yahoo.com/news/moviepass-reportedly-enrolls-past-subscribers-231051832.html
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 14 August 2018 04:50 (six years ago) link
$126 million loss in the June quarter. Shareholder is filing a class action against them for, I guess, being bad at business. HMNY trading at $0.05 today.https://deadline.com/2018/08/moviepass-hmny-shareholder-lawsuit-quarterly-loss-1202445563/
― faculty w1fe (silby), Wednesday, 15 August 2018 18:07 (six years ago) link
Has shareholders suing the company for being bad at business actually ever worked?
― Nhex, Wednesday, 15 August 2018 19:04 (six years ago) link
signed up for sinemia a few weeks ago but never got a physical card and the app is a nightmare. I'm just gonna cancel - not worth the fuss. Apparently I have to really hassle them to get my refund, too.
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Wednesday, 15 August 2018 19:16 (six years ago) link
correction: they have informed me that sinemia plans are non-refundable even though they make you pay for a year upfront lol
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Wednesday, 15 August 2018 19:44 (six years ago) link
BS, run a chargeback through your card.
― faculty w1fe (silby), Wednesday, 15 August 2018 19:45 (six years ago) link
Yeah, I'm looking into how to do that.
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Wednesday, 15 August 2018 19:50 (six years ago) link
merchant disputes (I didn't get what I paid for!!! the quality is not what was promised!!) through CC chargeback probably easier than a dispute where you indicate you gave no authorization for the charge at all and the company does.
good luck!
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 15 August 2018 20:40 (six years ago) link
sorry to hear that abt sinemia! that sucks.moviepass is currently a near-absolute joke. and yet I just successfully used it to see madeline's madeline, somehow - apparently one of three or maybe four non-e-ticket offerings you can see today, anywhere. who knows what it'll be tomorrow? but still worth hanging onto my annual membership and seeing what happens. i have a shred of hope that they get their finances just slightly stable enough that i can rely on it to see repertory again. alas, the bygone days of just a few weeks back!haven't yet walked into an amc and used my a-list, but i've advance reserved a couple of things and that was really really painless. if you're in a situation where AMCs show a reasonable portion of what you wanna see / what's even available in your area, it's a "pays for itself in 2-3 movies a month" kind of deal. in NYC it pays for itself in one IMAX screening. most of what i want to see doesn't play at AMCs, but a fair number of things do.
― mortal kombats fill your eyes (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 15 August 2018 20:54 (six years ago) link
the newest new idea: a calendar listing specific movies available each day (obv no guarantees that specific showtimes of these will be available, or will remain available as the day wears on)
― mortal kombats fill your eyes (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 16 August 2018 03:37 (six years ago) link
I was so shocked that Crazy Rich Asians was working today that I went ahead and saw it, so I guess their evil plan worked
― Nhex, Thursday, 16 August 2018 05:51 (six years ago) link
it failed, as the goal of all this nonsense is to suppress use and reduce expenses. better luck next time!
― mortal kombats fill your eyes (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 16 August 2018 11:48 (six years ago) link
if I'f known that BlacKkKlansman was going to be one of today's two available movies citywide, I wouldn't have paid for Christopher Robin and gone to BlacKkKlansman yesterday ;_;
― 16, 35, DCP, Go! (sic), Thursday, 16 August 2018 18:26 (six years ago) link
The collapse broadens: Annual members are all being converted to the 3-a-month limit, less than three weeks after being promised that quarterly and annual plans would not be affected until their next billing date. Just to be extra dickish about it, they also counted anything you've already watched this month towards the 3-a-month total, so in my case I can't watch anything until 9/6 (because supposedly I started my annual plan on 8/6, which is, surprise, false - they weren't even offering them!). Man they're determined to go down pissing everybody off despite having enabled us all to see dozens of movies for a song, it's kind of amazing.
― Doctor Casϵϵno (Doctor Casino), Friday, 24 August 2018 18:23 (six years ago) link
Literally what cash are they covering the remaining debits with at this point?
― faculty w1fe (silby), Friday, 24 August 2018 18:24 (six years ago) link
I've discovered an amazing hack to ensure they promptly cancel your subscription -- brazenly watch completely different movies than what is on the app.
― Philip Nunez, Friday, 24 August 2018 18:27 (six years ago) link
They offered me a prorated cancellation for my annual then i went to do it and it said i wasn't eligible. Lol.
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Friday, 24 August 2018 18:45 (six years ago) link
The funny thing is that ever since things started going to hell I've been assuming each movie might be my last. I kinda don't wanna go down with THE MEG as my last selection tho. Tried to snag a Suspiria ticket this AM (during that brief, early window before they ratchet down to only the day's crap selection of movies), but the theater's outdoor ticket kiosk was down :( If they weren't counting this month's prior viewings against my account, I'd have hope of seeing something kinda good before I finish, but as is it's probably smart to take the prorated refund and run since god knows they'll probably be out of business this time next week.....
― Doctor Casϵϵno (Doctor Casino), Friday, 24 August 2018 18:46 (six years ago) link
xpost bahaha, well there you go then
oh btw as far as the thread question: it will die a premature death and is not here to stay
― Doctor Casϵϵno (Doctor Casino), Friday, 24 August 2018 18:50 (six years ago) link
The collapse broadens: Annual members are all being converted to the 3-a-month limit, less than three weeks after being promised that quarterly and annual plans would not be affected until their next billing date.
ha, I bothered to email support about this yesterday, assuming that it was a glitch and that I could get my remaining five months of unlimited back, even though there's only three movies a month worth watching
then I signed up for Sinemia and they asked for an extra ten bucks to activate my account any sooner than two weeks
― ▫◌▫ (sic), Friday, 24 August 2018 19:41 (six years ago) link
the other moviepassy shakedown
― Doctor Casϵϵno (Doctor Casino), Friday, 24 August 2018 20:15 (six years ago) link
also, Neanderthal: posts on the reddit suggest that the "not eligible" refund response is a glitch and they're supposedly rolling out a fix. but if they don't you could consider reporting it with your CC for a chargeback (which the proferred refund is obviously intended to avoid, but if they're making it impossible to get the refund...).
― Doctor Casϵϵno (Doctor Casino), Friday, 24 August 2018 20:17 (six years ago) link
on one hand i'm tempted to take the pro-rated refund. real bitter about them changing the annual sub to this extent
otoh i'm almost at the point where i want to punish this company for screwing with us every single week and just make them bleed money until my sub runs out
sic don't fall for the $10 "acceleration" fee, they'll just give up the ghost in two weeks and you can start then. they're shady too but probably a teensy bit more stable then MP at this point
― Nhex, Friday, 24 August 2018 20:33 (six years ago) link
the question for me is, with my 3-movie limit zeroed out retroactively until 9/6, will I even get the chance to fuck with them by buying 3 tickets in september? i assume by then you will have the choice of a single movie per day and only be able to buy it from 8 to 8:15 AM. they have looked closely at how best to serve their users and are excited to announce this new direction which they hope will enhance your moviepass experience!
― Doctor Casϵϵno (Doctor Casino), Friday, 24 August 2018 20:36 (six years ago) link
still - $9.99 for 3 movies is a fine deal, they just need all the showtimes to work again
― Nhex, Friday, 24 August 2018 20:39 (six years ago) link
yeah exactly
― Nhex, Friday, 24 August 2018 20:40 (six years ago) link
they have to be so, so, so broke to hope that it will help them to go through with the pure customer-alienating stinginess of making the movie use retroactive. with one week left in the month even! obviously they lose money with every single movie you see so nothing surprising there exactly but man. like they couldn't have done the math three weeks ago when they sent the "don't worry, annual plan folks, you'll be fine!" I really hope someone gets access to their financials and can write a great, chernobyl-esque account of the deepening disaster. "by august 20 it was clear that this latest measure had backfired..." etc. i'm basically picturing their leadership as coked-up armie hammer in Sorry To Bother You, totally in denial of all possible criticism of the business model. maybe a little of rainn wilson in The Meg and rafe spall in Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom. thanks for the movies, #MoviePass!
― Doctor Casϵϵno (Doctor Casino), Friday, 24 August 2018 20:44 (six years ago) link
sic don't fall for the $10 "acceleration" fee
ha ha no fear
there's just a bunch of stuff at the Cinerama I wanted to see this week and tickets are $18
(No Country For Old Men, There Will Be Blood, Stop Making Sense)
― ▫◌▫ (sic), Friday, 24 August 2018 20:54 (six years ago) link
Sic I’ll be at the first two of those on Saturday! I paid full price though.
― faculty w1fe (silby), Friday, 24 August 2018 20:58 (six years ago) link
I will have to because it is in less than two weeks
what seat do you have for No Country? I'll try and get nearby, gonna skip full-price Blood prooobably (once I realised it's not 70mm)
― ▫◌▫ (sic), Friday, 24 August 2018 21:20 (six years ago) link
Front row balcony on audience right side
― faculty w1fe (silby), Friday, 24 August 2018 21:53 (six years ago) link
lol doxxed
― ▫◌▫ (sic), Friday, 24 August 2018 22:01 (six years ago) link
I wanted to try it while I was in town but no sense in signing up now. I get kind of mad reading about people being so trashy with their membership but whatever.
― Yerac, Friday, 24 August 2018 22:02 (six years ago) link
Trashy not here, but like, on that buzzfeed article.
i am baffled about why you would use it to use the bathroom
― Nhex, Friday, 24 August 2018 22:07 (six years ago) link
another fun wrinkle: the email states that if you stay on, you won't get charged for the monthly fee until your annual subscription would have been up for renewal anyway. fine. but the email also gets the date wrong ("...you began your annual subscription on August 6...." when actually i went over in december and got billed for it in january). good luck trying to get support to just confirm when your renewal date is in their system. they just copy and paste a bunch of stock stuff that they're feeding everybody who's coming at them today.
― Doctor Casϵϵno (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 25 August 2018 00:00 (six years ago) link
The stock is 2 cents. What do you think you'll get?
― Yerac, Saturday, 25 August 2018 00:22 (six years ago) link
idk something saying "i've checked and your billing date is in our system as 1/4 now i gotta go i got a million other tickets" would really be fine for my purposes
― Doctor Casϵϵno (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 25 August 2018 00:30 (six years ago) link
So, if i buy a movie pass now, will that speed the death?
― Yerac, Saturday, 25 August 2018 01:05 (six years ago) link
No, that will help them. It's once you start using it that you pound nails in the coffin.
― Doctor Casϵϵno (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 25 August 2018 01:15 (six years ago) link
What they should've done is sold day passes for multiplexes.
― Yerac, Saturday, 25 August 2018 02:01 (six years ago) link
Or just not been total weirdos. I did buy 200 more shares at like 10 cents as a lottery ticket. I made money (from like $8 on it's run to 30something but then lost a little when I rebought in the lower teens).
― Yerac, Saturday, 25 August 2018 02:03 (six years ago) link
AMC the new rally
― for i, sock in enumerate (Sufjan Grafton), Saturday, 25 August 2018 02:47 (six years ago) link
Will miss hearing about jimmy pardo's podcast mate's weekend movie passathons
― for i, sock in enumerate (Sufjan Grafton), Saturday, 25 August 2018 02:49 (six years ago) link