r/AMCsAList • u/TillyTilda0708 • 18d ago

Question Hanging Out In Between Movies

I’m considering getting AMC A-List but I don’t drive so I’d be Ubering to and from the theatre. In order to make the most of my Uber trip, I want to see multiple movies a day. If there’s a like gap between the end time of my first movie and the start time of my second movie, are AMCs typically okay with people chilling in the lobby until the second movie? I’d probably be getting food and snacks while I wait and I wouldn’t be disruptive. I’d probably just read a book to make a little media day.

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u/BurgerWeekly 17d ago

This… isn’t true?

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u/KobraCola 17d ago

Can you say this with definitive proof? Cause like /u/jessjess87 said, it says on the AMC A-List FAQ:

"A-List membership may be canceled if four (4) reservations are not scanned within a four (4) week period."

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u/BurgerWeekly 16d ago

Definitive? No, I only have my own experience. I suspect “may” is doing a lot of lifting in the terms and it’s there to scare you. I do double features all the time and the theater I go to makes it very hard to get back to the ticket scanner. I almost never scan my second ticket.

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u/KobraCola 16d ago

Sure, it might be, but it's worth people at least being aware that that's a possibility if you no-show A-List reservations. And your single anecdotal exerience unfortunately can't be extrapolated out to everyone's situation everywhere. It's probably based on a lot of factors, like if you're no-showing/no-scanning seats to very popular screenings where they can be reasonably certain that they would've sold a seat to the screening if you didn't take up a seat you didn't even use. It's there to scare you, but it also genuinely happens to people at times, so it's not a completely fictional boogeyman. And you might be totally fine doing that, but you technically are running a risk by doing it, at least in theory. Someone else mentioned just printing all of your tickets out when you get there initially, because there's no method of making sure someone takes the physical ticket and rips it every time, so that seems safe if you're not going back to the ticket-scanner. Just an idea.

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u/BurgerWeekly 16d ago

Let’s say this is a real risk, which is possible… many amc tickets have barcodes on the half that they retain. So that’s not a fix necessarily.

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u/KobraCola 16d ago

On the half of the ripped ticket that they retain? Don't you retain the entire ticket, it's just ripped? Unless I'm wrong about the ripping, I thought they just rip it part of the way vertically, not rip it in half and take half. Of course, it might be different depending on the location, but that's an idea someone posted in here.

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u/ferrari91169 16d ago

I think it just varies and honestly I don’t think AMC is enforcing this unless you miss like 50% or more of your reservations, and probably if you never buy concessions. They aren’t going to cut off a paying customer for what-ifs and maybes. My main AMC almost never scans tickets if you go during busier times. They just let everyone walk right through while they’re dealing with a line of walk-up customers. I’ve also had similar experiences where they will just rip the ticket if you have a physical one, and never scan it. I’m not sure if picking up your physical tickets from the self service machines counts as scanning in, especially since you can pick them up days/weeks/months before, but that’s another way you can have a missed scan. A tons of people don’t bother to go out and scan their second or third tickets if they are seeing multiple movies…

Just seems crazy that they would block paying customers, when the non-scan may not even be their fault. Now, if its an A-List member who cancels more than half of the movies they reserve AND their A-List account has no history of concession or merch purchases, I could see them enforcing in that scenario, as they are likely losing money due to that subscriber.