You are a movie buff and book your tickets online?.
If ever in future, you login to a movie ticket website to book tickets as the cinema location suits you and your eyes sparkle to an advertisement banner saying ‘GET A FREE TICKET WITH YOUR VISA CARD*!, HOLD yourself before jumping with joy. Look at the asterisk that points to ‘TERMS & CONDITIONS APPLY’.
I have here decoded the offer and its ‘Terms and Conditions’ which are not written upfront and are in a legal format not easily understood by all. Let me simplify it for you:
1. The offer is valid on a certain category of cards viz Platinum/Signature Cards or maybe Visa/Master Card/American Express.
2. Always check the offer period i.e. an offer may be valid only till a particular date. It is possible that the website ad banner is yet to be removed while the offer has expired.
3. Very Important, there may be a maximum limit of Free Tickets per Credit Card during the offer period sometimes as low as 2-3 tickets per quarter. So if you are thinking you can take your whole group to movie at half the price, sorry to disappoint you. It also means, if you are planning to watch a new movie every week at 50% , it doesnt really happen that way.
4. Tickets per day and per show are limited, so book early. So even if you have the said card you may still not get the free ticket, as the limited number of tickets that were available may have already been taken. After you enter your credit card details at the time of booking tickets, system will throw a pop up expressing regret that the free tickets are not available or will say congratulations...your amount is reduced to half. But remember the convenience charge will not be halved.
5. Offer may or may not be available in certain categories of tickets i.e Silver/Gold/Platinum
6. Read this..the One Free Ticket shall be given out of every two tickets` purchased in the same purchase transaction. Thus, if a customer books 4 tickets in a single transaction, he will need to pay for only 2 tickets, as the other 2 tickets will be free. However, if the customer books 3 tickets, he can avail of only 1 free ticket then, and has to pay full price for the other 2 tickets. The offer is not available if only 1 cinema ticket is booked.
7. Tickets once bought in this offer cannot be cancelled, refunded or exchanged. The only way is to go at the cinema hall at the show timing and sell them near the ticket window, but this may lead to petrol and time expense. So book only when you are sure
8. An offer maynot be combined with any other offers/discounts/promotions.
Nevertheless, let me wish you all the best and hope that the seats quota isnt exhausted.
Have a good Move Time!!!
