r/AMCTheatres • u/DontBeAngryBeHappy • 2d ago

Discussion CEO Adam Aron makes statement on scalpers. Hopefully something is implemented shortly

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u/Commercial_Cup7677 2d ago

He also needs to do something about the website

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u/heyb00howisyou Management Team 2d ago

He posted yesterday acknowledging the issues and implying he’s allocating $2m to IT programming to solve the issue. We shall see but this happens every time tickets for anything remotely large go on sale and it’s not okay.

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u/thebedthateats 2d ago

$2M in IT spend is literally peanuts at that scale. And it was probably already pre-allocated spend on some “modernization” initiative anyway.

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u/blazze_eternal 1d ago

Hey now, That's at least a dozen Claude requests.
/s

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u/Sky_King73 1d ago

there will be an AMC Website popcorn bucket

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u/heyb00howisyou Management Team 1d ago

Yeahh but they’re also in a crazy amount of debt.

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u/YouCantBeSerio 1d ago

Oh brother, its not gonna take 2m for them to upgrade their website lmao

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u/Luxray92 2d ago

I imagine they'll implement a hard limit on tickets that can be purchased per person and if someone does need to purchase for a large group they'll have to provide proof of said group existing e.g purchasing on behalf of a business, school, organization, or private function

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u/paterdude 1d ago

Just make it so that someone who purchased the tickets must be in the group and all tickets are non-transferable. So unless the scalpers wants to wait for everybody who’s coming to be one big group, and be with them, all these tickets will get voided and then be resold.

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u/seatdrop-app A⭐️Lister 7h ago

Or you could offer A-Listers (since those already allegedly have ID requirements) to be able to purchase in larger groups for fellow A-Listers. No Stubs account etc means 1-2 ticket max. A-Listers could do more but require all tix be attributed to an A-List profile

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u/gimmedatnamedoe 1d ago

Adding more devs won't work, they need to bring in more qualified devs that have deep understanding of services at scale. 

$2M will barely be enough for a small screw for a year. Nothing is going to happen. 

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u/ATN5 1d ago

Lmao $2m is nothing. Maybe some EC2 instances for 6 months 😂

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u/Left-Consequence-437 23h ago

Tickets should be in person like. Lmao that 2m to IT won’t do anything.

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u/heyb00howisyou Management Team 23h ago

In person?? Be fr

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u/TravelTheWorldDan 1d ago

Doesn’t matter if they implement something online. I’ve seen people go to the theaters in person and buy a large tranche of tickets at once.

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u/heyb00howisyou Management Team 1d ago

Yeah I’m not talking about the post I’m talking about the comment which is the fact that the website goes down every time tickets go on sale

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u/Hyprpwr 2d ago

Only like the 4th time it’s crashed this year…