MoviePass

[steve_dave]

Originally Posted by HorrorBlu

Have they said anything about how exactly the surge pricing works? And will you be able to see the cost before you go to the theater, or do they surprise you at the counter?

You will see the surge cost after clicking check in or reserve ETicket.

It will be based on availability of tickets, when the demand for a ticket overwhelms availability then surge pricing kicks in. How they determine availability is unknown.

Since you will be informed of surge pricing, you can opt to choose a different time or movie. Also, Movie Pass will offer a monthly single use waiver for surge pricing. You’ll get one for August, September, etc. to use as you wish.

[Destinys Memory]

Gonna be fun to check the app at home and it's all, "You're good. You're good." and then you get to the theater and it's like, "PEAK PRICING!!"

...and no, I don't care if some rando employee said on Reddit that it's "not likely" to happen. Not likely =/= Won't happen.

[Hoke Moseley]

Originally Posted by steve_dave

Then cancel your subscription, at least they are offering one waiver a month.

Wow, I didn’t know Moviepass’ CEO was a member here.

[Leonidas King]

Ok so someone please break it down for me as I have not been keeping up with the thread recently.

I got the email explaining everything but the peak surcharge section mentions nothing about getting charged on opening weekend like I've read in the last pages, unless they meant that by "choosing an alternative date or film"?

Also, will I know ahead of time what movies or dates will have the peak surcharge or you find out once you're in the theater about to check into the movie?

[DanTheMan]

Originally Posted by Leonidas_King

Ok so someone please break it down for me as I have not been keeping up with the thread recently.

I got the email explaining everything but the peak surcharge section mentions nothing about getting charged on opening weekend like I've read in the last pages, unless they meant that by "choosing an alternative date or film"?

Also, will I know ahead of time what movies or dates will have the peak surcharge or you find out once you're in the theater about to check into the movie?

The way it’s looking, alternative date might very well mean the Monday after through maybe Thursday. In terms of movie, they can charge extra for indie films too if they’re highly popular, I guess. Same with eventual Oscar contenders probably.

As for when we’ll find out what qualifies for the surcharge and when: to be determined

[steve_dave]

Originally Posted by Destinys Memory

Gonna be fun to check the app at home and it's all, "You're good. You're good." and then you get to the theater and it's like, "PEAK PRICING!!"

...and no, I don't care if some rando employee said on Reddit that it's "not likely" to happen. Not likely =/= Won't happen.

I just said in the post above your that that is what is going to happen. You can’t see surge pricing until you check in to the movie. The only way to get early warning is with eticketing theaters where you can get these anywhere.

Employees on Reddit can say whatever they want, look at the leak of AMC’s A-List. A-List was confusing because of that leak but the official information was more clear. Same thing here: MoviePass clarified how it works and yes, it sucks.

But they don’t want to push the subscriber price up and would rather do multiple added charges throughout the month. Instead, you have to go a theater and hope it checks you in and doesn’t ask for more money or get your eticket and hope no added charge is included.

Of course, annual and quarterly subscribers should not see surge pricing but cynics will say it will happen. So there’s that.

I understand criticism of the changes and some suck but one alteration was definitely requested. It wasn’t executed the way people wanted or the way that would make sense but it happened.

[Leonidas King]

Originally Posted by DanTheMan

The way it’s looking, alternative date might very well mean the Monday after through maybe Thursday. In terms of movie, they can charge extra for indie films too if they’re highly popular, I guess. Same with eventual Oscar contenders probably.

As for when we’ll find out what qualifies for the surcharge and when: to be determined

Yeah it's not really clear. It would be extremely helpful if the app itself would alert you what dates and/or movies are getting the peak surcharge before actually getting to the theater and buying the ticket.

I swear MP get's more and more complicated everytime lol.

[steve_dave]

Originally Posted by Leonidas_King

Yeah it's not really clear. It would be extremely helpful if the app itself would alert you what dates and/or movies are getting the peak surcharge before actually buying the ticket.

I swear MP get's more and more complicated everytime lol.

See the post above this one.

[Leonidas King]

Originally Posted by steve_dave

See the post above this one.

Post above your post was mine so I read my own post?

The only way I'm thinking you won't get charged a peak surcharge its if the movie is old and showtimes have drastically reduced and it's about to leave the theater.

[DanTheMan]

Originally Posted by Leonidas_King

Yeah it's not really clear. It would be extremely helpful if the app itself would alert you what dates and/or movies are getting the peak surcharge before actually buying the ticket.

I swear MP get's more and more complicated everytime lol.

I’m not entirely sure MP can do frequent updates notifying on the theater schedule what gets surcharged and what doesn’t. Especially since they don’t do advanced booking, and you normally have to wait until 12am to scroll through that single day’s showtimes. That might mean us subscribers need to wait until Thursday after midnight to see which movies’ showtimes to avoid. And keep in mind that smaller, arthouse theaters open new independent films as counter programming as well, and we also won’t know the status of those until the day of in all likelihood.

In a perfect world, the app would update with all answers for new (and recent) weekend flicks by the Monday or Tuesday before, at the earliest.

[steve_dave]

Originally Posted by Leonidas_King

Post above your post was mine so I read my own post?

The only way I'm thinking you won't get charged a peak surcharge its if the movie is old and showtimes have drastically reduced and it's about to leave the theater.

Even old movies about to leave a theater can be subject to surge pricing. They are basing it on availability of tickets to them... how that’s determined is unknown.

But when you reserve an eticket or check in, it will tell you if there is an added charge. Then you can choose another time or another movie or cancel.

[QElliott17]

Is anybody else's app not showing movies that you have seen as "you've already seen this movie." I have seen tag, incredibles 2, jurassic world 2 and all seem as if I could see them again. Solo and Avengers still are greyed out. So have they rescinded they only see a movie once except for marvel and star wars?

[cinemaphile]

Originally Posted by QElliott17

Is anybody else's app not showing movies that you have seen as "you've already seen this movie." I have seen tag, incredibles 2, jurassic world 2 and all seem as if I could see them again. Solo and Avengers still are greyed out. So have they rescinded they only see a movie once except for marvel and star wars?

Mine are still greyed/ineligible

[format916]

Originally Posted by QElliott17

Is anybody else's app not showing movies that you have seen as "you've already seen this movie." I have seen tag, incredibles 2, jurassic world 2 and all seem as if I could see them again. Solo and Avengers still are greyed out. So have they rescinded they only see a movie once except for marvel and star wars?

Mine lags as well. But they show up like a week later in the history.

[SethRex]

I assume we'll get an email when each of the upgrades is initiated? I'm personally looking forward to the Premium seating upgrade. I'm only gonna be paying 3 dollars out of pocket for either 3D or GTX.

[jacobsever]

Rather than raise our prices or limit viewings, our plan has been to develop a new variable pricing system based on the demand for particular showtimes

Nah, MoviePass, that's where you messed up. I think more people would rather just pay $14.95, or possibly even $19.95 and have NO surge pricing, than the occasionally pay an extra few dollars each time you go.

[youngtiffani]

I'll be curious how surge pricing ends up rolling out.

Usually for one the theaters I frequent that has assigned seating, if my friends and I who all have MoviePass want to make sure we get seats on opening weekend we go grab our tickets when the box office opens in the morning for the afternoon or evening showing. I'll be curious if we surge pricing when buying our tickets earlier in the day.

Even if I continued paying my $9.95 a month until I paid a full year I'm down to $2.61 a ticket, so I'm happy with the value I've gotten so far. No complaints so far from me on MoviePass.

[HorrorBlu]

The surge pricing might be the deal breaker that gets me to switch to AMC or a competitor.

I wouldn't mind if you can view the additional cost from home, so I can dodge those times. But being that some of the theaters are 30 minutes or more away, I don't like the idea that you don't know until you get there.

[jacobsever]

I've seen 77 movies with MoviePass since August 17th.

That means my average price per movie comes to $1.42 per theater visit.

No matter what this company does in the future, what rules they change, what they decide to charge going forward; it's been extremely worth it so far.

[eightslicesofpie]

An official Moviepass spokesperson was commenting in this Reddit thread about the new policies: https://www.reddit.com/r/MoviePassCl...=MoviePassClub

Based on what they said, it seems like there will basically be a ticket allotment for "popular" showtimes, so if you get a ticket within that you get no surcharge, but once they reach the limit then the surge pricing kicks in. It's also being determined by market, not just a blanket nationwide amount, so more popular areas like big cities will have a higher allotment to account for the larger amount of people, etc.

Luckily for me (and I know this isn't the case for everyone), my girlfriend and I tend to always just go to the first showing of a movie on weekends, we're never there at night, so I have a hard time believing any sort of allotment will be fulfilled by then--especially since Moviepass subscribers can't buy in advance, so if it's the first screening of the day, anyone else with MP will likely be there around the same time as us.

The only time we really see a big blockbuster release at night is during the Thursday night screenings, which we go to often, and admittedly I'm not sure how popular those would end up being.

Worth noting too in the Reddit thread they mention that the app is going to tell you when something has surge pricing or when it's getting close to surge pricing.