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Violated in the IMC.

  • 18-06-2011 8:34pm
    #1
    The Orphan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19 ✭The Orphan


    Hey boards, Long time reader first time poster. Today I went to the IMC Dunlaoghaire. Bought two tickets, was chared 50 cent service charge on each. I also bought the mandatory popcorn and drinks and was charged a further one euro service charge. The price of popcorn ,coke and tickets is crazy enough as it is, without having to pay a further two euro. anyone have any thoughts on this?


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  • #2
    dlofnep
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,759 ✭✭✭✭dlofnep


    I am outraged by your excessive service charge! OUTRAGED!!


  • #3
    El Weirdo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,647 ✭✭✭✭El Weirdo


    The Orphan wrote: »
    Hey boards, Long time reader first time poster. Today I went to the IMC Dunlaoghaire. Bought two tickets, was chared 50 cent service charge on each. I also bought the mandatory popcorn and drinks and was charged a further one euro service charge. The price of popcorn ,coke and tickets is crazy enough as it is, without having to pay a further two euro. anyone have any thoughts on this?
    Were you forced at gunpoint?


  • #4
    phasers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,159 ✭✭✭✭phasers


    You buy your food in the cinema? :confused:


  • #5
    kensutz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,200 ✭✭✭kensutz


    Welcome to After Hours

    grabs popcorn..........


  • #6
    AckwelFoley
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,555 ✭✭✭✭AckwelFoley


    misleading title.


    I thought you got fingered in the que for tickets


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  • #7
    galwayrush
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,815 ✭✭✭✭galwayrush


    You got off lightly OP.


  • #8
    Cypher_sounds
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,208 ✭✭✭Cypher_sounds


    I'd agree, going to watch a movie buying two tickets, popcorn and drinks is a complete rip off.
    Can be anything up to 50 euro to enjoy a good film with a bit of popcorn and a drink..a complete joke.


  • #9
    .SONIC.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 777 ✭✭✭.SONIC.


    snyper wrote: »
    misleading title.


    I thought you got fingered in the que for tickets


    you didnt?


  • #10
    AckwelFoley
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,555 ✭✭✭✭AckwelFoley


    .SONIC. wrote: »
    you didnt?


    No, but ive tried it.


  • #11
    The Orphan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19 ✭The Orphan


    No, but I wasn't told that there would be a service charge. I'd like to pour my own coke and get my own popcorn, but vaulting the counter would be frowned upon I'd imagine!


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  • #12
    phasers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,159 ✭✭✭✭phasers


    Did you pay by cash or card OP?


  • #13
    .SONIC.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 777 ✭✭✭.SONIC.


    snyper wrote: »
    No, but ive tried it.


    so have i :*


  • #14
    The Orphan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19 ✭The Orphan


    phasers wrote: »
    You buy your food in the cinema? :confused:
    not anymore, it's too expensive. back to Lidl for me:mad:


  • #15
    ScumLord
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,789 ✭✭✭✭ScumLord


    kensutz wrote: »
    Welcome to After Hours

    grabs popcorn..........
    Service charge in After Hours is €2 as we're running out of popcorn.


  • #16
    cml387
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,644 ✭✭✭cml387


    "Popcorn in cinemas is a ripoff"

    This is part one of our new AH series,"The Bleedin' obvious"

    Next week "Mobile phone charge,wtf"

    Later on we'll be examining the issue "I went to Oxygene and paid 5 million euro for a warm pint of 'Ken and a poxy burger".


  • #17
    WoollyRedHat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,462 ✭✭✭✭WoollyRedHat


    What movie was it?


  • #18
    The Orphan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19 ✭The Orphan


    phasers wrote: »
    Did you pay by cash or card OP?
    Cash


  • #19
    The Orphan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19 ✭The Orphan


    WoollyRedHat wrote: »
    What movie was it?
    Bad Teacher


  • #20
    cml387
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,644 ✭✭✭cml387


    The Orphan wrote: »
    Bad Teacher

    Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah


  • #21
    The Orphan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19 ✭The Orphan


    cml387 wrote: »
    "Popcorn in cinemas is a ripoff"

    This is part one of our new AH series,"The Bleedin' obvious"

    Next week "Mobile phone charge,wtf"

    Later on we'll be examining the issue "I went to Oxygene and paid 5 million euro for a warm pint of 'Ken and a poxy burger".

    Yeah popcorn is a rip off, don't need hidden charges on top of that. I'm a scrooge, hence I'm in on a saturday night postin on the boards lol


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  • #22
    The Orphan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19 ✭The Orphan


    cml387 wrote: »
    Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah
    don't knock it, till you've tried it. Kung Fu panda was booked out ha ha


  • #23
    WoollyRedHat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,462 ✭✭✭✭WoollyRedHat


    I was going to say it's your own fault if you went to see a Cameron Diaz film but then I looked at the other offerings, so maybe the best of a bad bunch


  • #24
    cml387
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,644 ✭✭✭cml387


    Senna?
    Possibly the greatest documentary ever made?

    You deserve all you got.


  • #25
    The Orphan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19 ✭The Orphan


    WoollyRedHat wrote: »
    I was going to say it's your own fault if you went to see a Cameron Diaz film but then I looked at the other offerings, so maybe the best of a bad bunch
    was better than I thought it was gonna be. My girlfriend wanted to see it.


  • #26
    CoalBucket
    Closed Accounts Posts: 971 ✭✭✭CoalBucket


    The Orphan wrote: »
    Bad Teacher

    You deserved to be ripped off :D


  • #27
    raveni
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 433 ✭✭raveni


    The only reason they say it's a service charge is to bump up the price even more. Any other place has any charges for services included in the price...they don't make a song and dance about it. The cinema just adds another charge and calls it a "service charge" to make you think you weren't paying towards it in the first place.

    At the end of the day, yup, cinemas are asbolute rip offs when it comes to food.


  • #28
    recyclebin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,529 ✭✭✭recyclebin


    Service charge for a cinema! That's more of a joke than a violation.


  • #29
    ScumLord
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,789 ✭✭✭✭ScumLord


    cml387 wrote: »
    Senna?
    Possibly the greatest documentary ever made?
    I don't know, while I was waiting for Senna to download I watch another 30 minute documentary about Senna and Prost from years ago, pretty much the same documentary.

    Bar some extra behind the scenes stuff the Senna documentary had nothing exceptional about it.


  • #30
    Hank_Jones
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,783 ✭✭✭Hank_Jones


    Had a look at this. Apparently the charge on the ticket is incorporated into the price, so you are paying the price that is advertised.

    The service charge on the food is a completely other story though and they are charging people money they possibly shouldn't.

    And they wonder why the film industry is in trouble...


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  • #31
    Tehachapi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 273 ✭✭Tehachapi


    It's for this very reason I don't visit the cinema, and the morons who insist on chattin durin the film or usin their mobile phone or eatin loudly etc. It's a horrendous experience.


  • #32
    Dun
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,967 ✭✭✭Dun


    Ryanair do cinemas now? :confused:


  • #33
    TommyTippee
    Closed Accounts Posts: 234 ✭✭TommyTippee


    snyper wrote: »
    No, but ive tried it.

    No one thanked that. You must be devastated.


  • #34
    AckwelFoley
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,555 ✭✭✭✭AckwelFoley


    TommyTippee wrote: »
    No one thanked that. You must be devastated.

    You must be lonely. Very


  • #35
    Run_to_da_hills
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,009 ✭✭✭✭Run_to_da_hills


    The Orphan wrote: »
    No, but I wasn't told that there would be a service charge. I'd like to pour my own coke and get my own popcorn, but vaulting the counter would be frowned upon I'd imagine!
    If it is IMC Bloomfields you are talking about, Tesco is just around the corner, popcorn 85p coke e1.20 plus oversize jacket......sorted.


  • #36
    hatrickpatrick
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,797 ✭✭✭✭hatrickpatrick


    WTFH?!
    Since when do IMC have a "service charge"?!


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  • #37
    TommyTippee
    Closed Accounts Posts: 234 ✭✭TommyTippee


    snyper wrote: »
    You must be lonely. Very

    No one thanked that either.


  • #38
    dr.bollocko
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 35,945 Mod ✭✭✭✭dr.bollocko


    ^^^^^

    Troll banned.


  • #39
    Rocket19
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 451 ✭✭Rocket19


    The cinema is always extortionate though :confused:

    DunLaoghaire cinema isn't even that expensive (comparatively). Town cinemas cost way more more!


  • #40
    Laylah Old Seaweed
    Posts: 0 CMod ✭✭✭✭ Laylah Old Seaweed


    get over it


  • #41
    Wolfe Tone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,670 ✭✭✭✭Wolfe Tone


    Service charge for a cinema? FFS.


    Speaking of rip offs, since when are plastic bags 70 bloody cent? You can get a can of lager for that ffs. Needless to say I refused to pay and carried the stuff home in my arms.


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  • #42
    Run_to_da_hills
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,009 ✭✭✭✭Run_to_da_hills


    Wolfe Tone wrote: »

    Speaking of rip offs, since when are plastic bags 70 bloody cent? You can get a can of lager for that ffs. Needless to say I refused to pay and carried the stuff home in my arms.
    Some retail outlets like Dunnes Stores now do "their own" plastic bags and can charge what they want for them. These are usually heavier duty than the standard white ones and can be used again.

    I think most people have got the message about bringing their own and those that don't deserve to pay the extra.


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