Booking Fees (!!!!)

Cineworld has removed its booking fees now, but the other still charge, but it gets me, charging £1.50 per ticket to book some tickets for football games its a complete joke.
 
Goberpiles316 said:
Cineworld has removed its booking fees now, but the other still charge, but it gets me, charging £1.50 per ticket to book some tickets for football games its a complete joke.
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It was Cineworld I walked out of when they didn't tell me about the 3D glasses surcharge until I was walking out... and ironically Cineworld I'm praising for not having a booking fee when I booked tonight. :p

I think I'll send them a wee email with a slap on the wrist and a pat on the back.
 
Cinema's have got out of control cost me a small loan to take the wife and two kids out and that's without any snacks, we have a bit of a dive near us that only costs £2.50 a seat and £3.50 at weekends, but we tend to just wait for films to hit SKY now.
 
I don't know if I'd agree. A tenner to see a film seems reasonable to me. I'm thinking back to when I was a child a long time ago and I don't think they've kept up with inflation.

Snack prices, sadly, are sky high but I don't think there's a solution. They make such a high margin that to bring them down to a reasonable price they'd have to sell an inordinate amount more, which isn't going to happen.

Additionally if you go when it's cheap you pay much less - the 2for1 offers or cheap kids days etc.
 
The Halk said:
It's part of what you pay for the gig, part of their revenue. They just like to disguise it because people make wrong decisions about affordability because they don't include hidden charges.

I walked out of a cinema a few weeks ago because they didn't tell me before I paid that they charged extra for 3D glasses - my local cinema doesn't. We'd gone on the spur of the moment to MiB3 and I remembered after I'd paid for the tickets that I'd switched off MiB2 halfway through because it was terrible, so when they gave me an excuse I said **** you I'll have my money back.
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I was in Manchester and decided to go and see MIB3 in 3d, it was twice the price to get in as home and we had to buy 3d glasses! WTF is going on with that.
 
Well, I think Maccy was telling you specifically not to do what you've gone and done, although you've gone a wee bit further with the implied threat. Good going champ.
 
I don't mind it if the booking fee is £1. To me, £1 multiplied by thousands of customer hits kinda per event covers the cost for the ticket's web site's server to stay running and for the web master who coded the site. This applies to train tickets and club/gig tickets where £1 isn't that much a cost compared to the ticket itself.

Not as bad as the OP's £30, but the worst one for me was booking for Atomic Jam (techno event in Birmingham). Ticket was £14 but Ticketmaster wanted an extra £4.50 on top. This was in 2004. The capacity of Atomic Jam (held at the then-Sanctuary nightclub) is 1800. The £14 pays for the hire of the venue itself, the DJs, the promoter, door staff and lighting/laser hire. But I fail to see how £4.50 x 1800 is justified for the ticket merchant alone just for that 1 event.
 
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