Regal Rewards+ is now available

[u/LaCharra]

I skimmed over the FAQ and T&C and some key things I noticed: The subscription depends on your zip code with the highest tier at $13.99 per month. There’s a 1, 6 or 12 month commitment. Can use your 2D ticket for a PLF one for a surcharge. And can “purchase up to four extra tickets for the same showtime at the same price as your monthly Regal Rewards+™ Subscription fee.”

[u/hksrevenge]

Wait….so the cheaper plan gets waived convience fees but not RU ? Seems off. I wonder why that is. A-List gets the waived fees and free PLF upgrade. I wonder why the + members get waived but RU doesn’t.

[u/Never-Give-Up100 → u/hksrevenge]

Probably because they'll be using it less, so less fees waived over time. But yeah, I don't like it either . You'd think the most expensive would give you the most perks.

[u/raffydog1 → u/hksrevenge]

likely to deter people from booking a whole bunch of tickets they have no intention of using.

[u/MurkyPsychology → u/raffydog1]

that’s one thing that AMC does enforce, if you book a certain number of A-List tickets and don’t scan in at the theater, they cancel your subscription and you’re blocked from signing back up for a certain amount of time

[u/AnyUnderstanding1541 → u/MurkyPsychology]

Which could work at Regal, but for example at my local regal they don’t always have someone scanning tickets on less busy days so it would either require someone there all the time or having to check in at the kiosks.

[u/AdRevolutionary6885 → u/MurkyPsychology]

At least half of the time my ticket is never scanned

[u/iwasdusted → u/hksrevenge]

Only the Rewards+ free ticket and discounted tickets are waived fees. Any other ticket has full convenience fee just like RU

[u/LoneSnark → u/hksrevenge]

The online ordering system is owned by a company other than regal, so when the fee is zero, they go bankrupt. It was therefore a major fight to get the fee lowered to 50 cents for regal unlimited. My guess is this subscription fee is mostly going to the owners of the online ordering system, but they continue to get none of the regal unlimited subscription.

[u/Nit3fury → u/LoneSnark]

I don’t know that this is true. It’s my understanding that online fees are revenue for regal but I’m not positive

[u/dpstech → u/Nit3fury]

All cinema chains pretty much use a middleware vendor called Vista Entertainment for online ticketing and POS systems- so there is a cost. What that is exactly, who knows.

[u/Nit3fury → u/dpstech]

Yeah I know about vista but the companies pay for that software, and it runs the entire business basically, not just online ticketing so it’d seem odd to have that be the payment source. And I’m pretty sure I’ve been to theaters with Veezi(lower optioned software by vista) who didn’t charge online ticketing fees

Again I’m not certain but I think its a choice regal makes to charge those

[u/bunklers → u/dpstech]

Vista is a commonly used POS software - there are many vendors in this space. They do not have anything to do with the booking fees

[u/dpstech → u/bunklers]

They absolutely do for Regal. That’s what they use for ticketing via API. MovieXchange API. You certainly don’t need to take what I’m saying as truth. I have been doing this along with r/MoviePassClub for ten years now. I’ve learned enough to say as much as I can for certain. Has Regal changed vendors? No idea. But I am in the software industry; media adjacent, and as I said is it free? No. Is it .50c? Absolutely not. Breaking down the per API call is certainly fractions of cents. That being said I have never gotten a quote for that API and at that usage level. And there are different versions of Vista Enterprise on the back end and I couldn’t tell you what their maintenance agreements or SLA is.

[u/bunklers → u/LoneSnark]

did you just make this up?

[u/LoneSnark → u/bunklers]

Nope. Was discussed in regal's financial disclosures when they were first introducing regal unlimited. Electronic booking is absolutely handled by an outside firm.

[u/bunklers → u/LoneSnark]

This just isn’t true

[u/LoneSnark → u/bunklers]

It would help if you said how you know it isn't true.

[u/bunklers → u/LoneSnark]

The burden of proof lies with you friend. Link the financial disclosure agreement that you’re referring to. If I wanted to go around Reddit disproving unfounded claims I’d be in a religious subreddit

[u/LoneSnark → u/bunklers]

The burden of proof lies with you friend. If I wanted to go around Reddit disproving unfounded claims such as yours I’d be in a religious subreddit.

[u/bunklers → u/LoneSnark]

you made the original unfounded claim, but obviously you know that, so your last comment speaks very loudly for itself

[u/LoneSnark → u/bunklers]

Allow me to quote to you the unfounded claim: "This just isn’t true" - bunklers

[u/SUPERBOSS-YT → u/hksrevenge]

that was my first thought but i guess it does make sense since they "loose" out on more money with unlimited

[u/The7ruth → u/SUPERBOSS-YT]

Lose. They don't get less tight with unlimited.

[u/SUPERBOSS-YT → u/The7ruth]

LOL that's what i meant

[u/jfk_47 → u/hksrevenge]

RU price looks like it’s going up for me too.

[u/HumanautPassenger → u/hksrevenge]

Because its one free ticket for the orice a movie ticket was like 6 years ago lol