CinemaNow closing accounts .. beware

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Originally Posted by alexy25

I think more or less he is trying to say that if he saw CN credit at a discount - he bought it as most of us would...there is absolutely nothing wrong with that ... I have seen CN cards on ebay sell for $20 per $50...why? it was admist the change from bestbuy to another owner and people thought crap they are going out of business. How was he suppose to know that the credits were obtained by other methods? Sure he might of thought it but cut the guy some slack he didn't deserve an account closure for it...

I think you might have just contradicted yourself.

And unless you are new to ebay, you would know that there is something seriously wrong with anybody selling credits at such a high discount. It has been this way for EVERY service ever. Used to happen all the time with Fandango codes, Movie Money, and both AMC and Regal theaters promo codes, to the point that those companies stopped issuing them altogether. Our company even got letters from AMC and Regal explaining how promo codes were no longer going to be issued due to a high risk of fraud. We do a lot of business for group showings and such and have had to switch over to corporate discounts on their passes. This also happened as recently as last month with Atom tickets. Somebody sold close to 2000 codes at $10 or less per, with each code giving you $100-120 worth of free movie tickets to any theater serviced by Atom. I'm sure you can figure out what happened to most of those purchases.

I am not saying that he is at fault or he deserved what happened to his account, but this is ebay we are talking about. There is zero protection when buying gift cards and codes on there. The legitimate ones sell for the entire value most of the time, if not more. He used iTunes as an example. You are more likely to win the lottery than to find an iTunes gift card for 75 cents on the dollar.

I do feel for him, but racking up that much credit for a service like CinemaNow, it sure is a hard lesson learned.

Originally Posted by alexy25

Do you really think people are buying $20 christmas movies and selling the $10 vudu credit for $6 just to recoup some funds on the same exact dvd set that they have had for years with the same credit ? It is the same thing....

I would answer if I understood what you were trying to say.