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Do a cinema have a right to withold a refund if the patron was too young?

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  • #52
    4ensic15
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,691 ✭✭✭4ensic15


    irish_goat wrote: »
    Is it not reasonable to argue that a condition of purchase of a cinema ticket is that you are of legal age to view the film when you arrive at the screen? Be that screening in the next half hour or next month.

    If you are not of legal age you can't make a contract therefore any conditions of the proposed contract are not binding.


  • #53
    irish_goat
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 5,804 Mod ✭✭✭✭irish_goat


    4ensic15 wrote: »
    If you are not of legal age you can't make a contract therefore any conditions of the proposed contract are not binding.

    The child was not of legal age to view the film. I'm not sure the law applies to the purchasing of a ticket.


  • #54
    4ensic15
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,691 ✭✭✭4ensic15


    irish_goat wrote: »
    The child was not of legal age to view the film. I'm not sure the law applies to the purchasing of a ticket.

    That is the whole point of this thread. If the child is too young to view the film then the child doesn't have the capacity to contract for a ticket to watch the film.


  • #55
    NUTLEY BOY
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,344 ✭✭✭NUTLEY BOY


    Indricotherium wrote: »
    The child was furnished with the ticket he paid for.

    Any person over the age of 16 could have redeemed it.

    Just to clarify my point.

    The furnishing of the ticket was not the rendering of consideration.

    Consideration would have been rendered if the infant had been allowed in to the film. As he was refused entry - post purchase of the ticket - he was specifically denied consideration by the cinema.


  • #56
    Indricotherium
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,575 ✭✭✭Indricotherium


    NUTLEY BOY wrote: »
    Just to clarify my point.

    The furnishing of the ticket was not the rendering of consideration.

    Consideration would have been rendered if the infant had been allowed in to the film. As he was refused entry - post purchase of the ticket - he was specifically denied consideration by the cinema.

    Is there a [case] for a purchased valid ticket for a service does not = consideration?


  • #57
    Eric Cartman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,280 ✭✭✭✭Eric Cartman


    the age rating of a film is a rating for admittance to see the film, not the ticket purchase. The argument could be made that the minor could purchase a ticket as a gift for somebody overage / purchase on behalf of somebody. The person refusing admission was likely not the person who sold the ticket.

    It's done this way to stop older people purchasing tickets for kids to allow them to see a film thats above their age rating. Similar enough 16 year olds have been denied entrance to music festivals and left with tickets , in those cases they tend to sell them in the car park etc...


  • #58
    4ensic15
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,691 ✭✭✭4ensic15


    Eric Cartman wrote: »
    the age rating of a film is a rating for admittance to see the film, not the ticket purchase. The argument could be made that the minor could purchase a ticket as a gift for somebody overage / purchase on behalf of somebody. The person refusing admission was likely not the person who sold the ticket.

    It's done this way to stop older people purchasing tickets for kids to allow them to see a film thats above their age rating. Similar enough 16 year olds have been denied entrance to music festivals and left with tickets , in those cases they tend to sell them in the car park etc...

    Tickets are generally non-transferable since the venue reserves the right to refuse admission.


  • #59
    Eric Cartman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,280 ✭✭✭✭Eric Cartman


    4ensic15 wrote: »
    Tickets are generally non-transferable since the venue reserves the right to refuse admission.

    by that logic should people showing up completely drunk be refunded ? the kid didn't meet the admission requirements.


  • #60
    4ensic15
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,691 ✭✭✭4ensic15


    Eric Cartman wrote: »
    by that logic should people showing up completely drunk be refunded ? the kid didn't meet the admission requirements.

    A person showing up drunk would have had the capacity to contract when sober. The cinema couldn't take money from a drunk and then throw him out.


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