RC Theater No Fandango... already??

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Restitution

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So I have this Fandango gift card that was given to me to see a movie at the new RC theater and now I see that they do not accept Fandango anymore! Anyone speculate as to why??
 
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HotPinkChicken

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Same thing happened to me!! I won the giftcard from WKIK where their intent was to use it at RC. Now the closest place is The Park. The crappy part is that you have to buy the tix on Fandango's website for a specific time, and if you are unable to make it for whatever reason, you're SOL.
 
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Super_Steve

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I got two tickets from Fandango, The Martian and Spectre. Was about to order tickets for Star Wars and they won't do it anymore. WTF?

kom526 said:
Waldorf and Brandywine both accept fandango.
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Brandywine does not accept Fandango, only Waldorf. I hate going to Waldorf.
 
kom526

kom526

They call me ... Sarcasmo
They use movie tickets.com now, but did not give an explanation as to why they changed.
 
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BernieP

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kom526 said:
They use movie tickets.com now, but did not give an explanation as to why they changed.
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which works just fine as well.

Got to say, I like the RC 12 @ Lexington Exchange.
The location and matinee price makes it very attractive to go to the movies again.
Still clean, still 100% functioning, still comfortable. Oh, place seemed to be pretty damn busy the last couple of days.
Build it, (nicely) and they will come.

Only question left? Who the hell goes to Loews in the park?
 
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ltown81

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I always chuckle when I see local friends on Facebook post how they drove up Waldorf to see a movie. Why would you do that when you have such a nice theater 10 minutes away. Some are still butt hurt over no recliners, but the seats they have just fine.

BernieP said:
which works just fine as well.

Got to say, I like the RC 12 @ Lexington Exchange.
The location and matinee price makes it very attractive to go to the movies again.
Still clean, still 100% functioning, still comfortable. Oh, place seemed to be pretty damn busy the last couple of days.
Build it, (nicely) and they will come.

Only question left? Who the hell goes to Loews in the park?
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BernieP

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ltown81 said:
I always chuckle when I see local friends on Facebook post how they drove up Waldorf to see a movie. Why would you do that when you have such a nice theater 10 minutes away.
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Do they make their location public? I know we are rough and tough, but "checking in" gets you nothing but advertisements at best, and a burglary at worst.

ltown81 said:
Some are still butt hurt over no recliners, but the seats they have just fine.
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I think that's a mind set with people, they will look for an excuse to complain about something. I don't need to layback and put my feet up, that's a good way to miss part of the movie.
 
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Hodr

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I assume the way Fandango nickel and dimes the customer that they probably take a hefty fee from the theater as well. And as you may be aware, theaters make very little money from the ticket sales (for first run movies anyways). They make virtually all their money from concessions ($6 for $0.30 of popcorn...)

At the Mall where I worked when I was a teenager the movie theater had an unofficial wink-wink nudge-nudge policy for friends/family/co-workers. Show up to any movie during the preview role (up to 10 minutes post start-time) and if it wasn't sold out, they would let you in for free. Provided you made a purchase from the concession stand.
 
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BernieP

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Hodr said:
I assume the way Fandango nickel and dimes the customer that they probably take a hefty fee from the theater as well. And as you may be aware, theaters make very little money from the ticket sales (for first run movies anyways). They make virtually all their money from concessions ($6 for $0.30 of popcorn...)

At the Mall where I worked when I was a teenager the movie theater had an unofficial wink-wink nudge-nudge policy for friends/family/co-workers. Show up to any movie during the preview role (up to 10 minutes post start-time) and if it wasn't sold out, they would let you in for free. Provided you made a purchase from the concession stand.
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A fact that people overlook when they complain about not being allowed to bring their own snacks in.
Are the prices high, sure, but they have to pay for the place.
 
lucky_bee

lucky_bee

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Dixie said:
Simple. My son has autism and is slightly intolerant of even small crowds. During the week, Lexington Park is seldom crowded and because it was pretty much always the first show of the day; the theater was always clean.

More so than that, the staff knew us and they were unbelievably kind to my son; in fact so much so, that I wrote at least two letters to management just to say how much I appreciated them.
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Dixie, I'm glad to hear they treated your son with such kindness. Unfortunately, I could totally see how people are saying the park theater will probably close now since it'll be hard to compete with RC Theater. Have you considered asking management of the new place to allow you a couple tours before 1st movie times of the day? Maybe going and walking around the place before anyone comes in a couple different occasions, saying hi to the staff, etc. would make that theater feel less overwhelming. This way if/when the LP one shuts down you guys are prepared to switch and it's not such a big change to him? I've been to the new one several times, was even helped by management once or twice (not bc I needed it, they happened to be there working right along side the rest of the staff) and their customer service is right on point. I bet they'd be more than happy to allow your son his own tour before the first show times.
 
lucky_bee

lucky_bee

RBF expert
Dixie said:
Oh we've actually been to the new theater a lot. (We're both big movie fans). Good suggestions though. He didn't have a problem with the transition because we wait until a movie has been out several weeks and go to the first show during the middle of the week - same as we used to do with the old theater. It's seldom crowded then.

I was just responding to Bernie (I think) that I would still go to the Lexington Park theater but they stopped showing movies during the day time hours during the week. We haven't been mistreated at the RC at all - it's just that we went to Lexington Park so often that they were used to him carrying in a book bag full of his "friends" and nearly all of them treated him as if that were perfectly normal. It's was really comfortable for both of us there. Just a transition that's all - eventually I'll feel the same level of comfort.
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excellent :yay: I hope whatever happens, you both are able to comfortably continue being such big movie fans :lol:
 
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