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I don't need MoviePass to understand me. I want MoviePass to take my money and give me movie tickets.

by lghh 9y ago

asdsa5325 9y ago
Which isn't profitable. If you want MoviePass to exist, they need another source of revenue...
- chiefalchemist 9y ago
  Agreed. Seems like an app for common sense would make a couple gazillion and then some.
- ngngngng 9y ago
  That's the struggle. Virtually unlimited movie tickets each month for the price of one movie ticket a month sounds too good to be true because it is. There's no way for this to work without some other source of revenue. If you would like the option to pay more and NOT be tracked, we just call that buying movie tickets and you've been able to do it all along.
  - deleted 9y ago
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  - laythea 9y ago
    Yes but is the issue here not that they were not told that they were being spied on?
  - gowld 9y ago
    It's still too good to be true. Why aren't there dozens of apps offering me $100/yr flat-out for my location data? MoviePass is a play to intermediate the movie-shopping experience, so they can extort kickbacks from theaters.
- AlexandrB 9y ago
  This can be used to excuse the worst kind of behaviour. Maybe if MoviePass can't operate profitably without violating people's privacy, it's just not a good startup idea.
  - sixothree 9y ago
    This is used to excuse the worst kind of behavior. I don't see MoviePass as any sort of exception to the rule here. I see as par for the course. And to be honest, that is disappointing to me.
  - gowld 9y ago
    But since a million people are happy to sell their location data for movie tickets, it is a good startup idea. To say otherwise an excuse to restrict other users' freedom, a pretty bad behavior.
    - yazan94 9y ago
      > But since a million people are happy to sell their location data for movie tickets, it is a good startup idea. To say otherwise an excuse to restrict other users' freedom, a pretty bad behavior. It is a different story if they are upfront with what MoviePass is using it's users' location data for.
- Spooky23 9y ago
  MoviePass shouldn’t exist. That’s the problem.
  - asdsa5325 9y ago
    If you are bothered by them, they just don't use them. I'm fine giving up basic information in exchange for movie credit.
- nkrisc 9y ago
  But as a consumer I don't care what MoviePass wants or needs, that's not my problem. I'd milk them for all the tickets they're worth and then when they shutter I'd just go back to buying tickets like I used to for decades past. They offer marginal convenience at best for something that really wasn't all the inconvenient to begin with.

I don't need MoviePass to understand me. I want MoviePass to take my money and give me movie tickets.

by lghh 9y ago

I don't need MoviePass to understand me. I want MoviePass to take my money and give me movie tickets.

asdsa5325 9y ago

Which isn't profitable. If you want MoviePass to exist, they need another source of revenue...

chiefalchemist 9y ago
Agreed. Seems like an app for common sense would make a couple gazillion and then some.
ngngngng 9y ago
That's the struggle. Virtually unlimited movie tickets each month for the price of one movie ticket a month sounds too good to be true because it is. There's no way for this to work without some other source of revenue. If you would like the option to pay more and NOT be tracked, we just call that buying movie tickets and you've been able to do it all along.
- deleted 9y ago
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- laythea 9y ago
  Yes but is the issue here not that they were not told that they were being spied on?
- gowld 9y ago
  It's still too good to be true. Why aren't there dozens of apps offering me $100/yr flat-out for my location data? MoviePass is a play to intermediate the movie-shopping experience, so they can extort kickbacks from theaters.
AlexandrB 9y ago
This can be used to excuse the worst kind of behaviour. Maybe if MoviePass can't operate profitably without violating people's privacy, it's just not a good startup idea.
- sixothree 9y ago
  This is used to excuse the worst kind of behavior. I don't see MoviePass as any sort of exception to the rule here. I see as par for the course. And to be honest, that is disappointing to me.
- gowld 9y ago
  But since a million people are happy to sell their location data for movie tickets, it is a good startup idea. To say otherwise an excuse to restrict other users' freedom, a pretty bad behavior.
  - yazan94 9y ago
    > But since a million people are happy to sell their location data for movie tickets, it is a good startup idea. To say otherwise an excuse to restrict other users' freedom, a pretty bad behavior. It is a different story if they are upfront with what MoviePass is using it's users' location data for.
Spooky23 9y ago
MoviePass shouldn’t exist. That’s the problem.
- asdsa5325 9y ago
  If you are bothered by them, they just don't use them. I'm fine giving up basic information in exchange for movie credit.
nkrisc 9y ago
But as a consumer I don't care what MoviePass wants or needs, that's not my problem. I'd milk them for all the tickets they're worth and then when they shutter I'd just go back to buying tickets like I used to for decades past. They offer marginal convenience at best for something that really wasn't all the inconvenient to begin with.