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MovieTickets.com has a rating of 1.2 stars from 165 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers complaining about MovieTickets.com most frequently mention customer service, gift card, and convenience fee problems. MovieTickets.com ranks 364th among Movie sites.

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    10
  • Value
    10
  • Shipping
    5
  • Returns
    7
  • Quality
    10
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Top Positive Review

“YES YOU CAN REACH THE WEBSITE AND USE THE GIFT CARDS”

Joan R.
1/6/20

Oddly enough, the website printed on the back of the gift cards gives a "404" error, but when I simply typed "movietickets.com" it worked like a charm. We selected our theatre, selected our tickets, and printed out the confirmation number. No problem at all. Yes, there are some added fees, but the total didn't seem too much higher than purchasing at the theater.

Top Critical Review

“HORRIBLE gift cards”

Sheena D.
7/21/19

I bought a gift card multi-pack at my favorite big warehouse retailer. Went to use one today and discovered the cards have no PIN and therefore do not work on the Fandango site to buy tickets and there appears to be no other way to redeem them... epic rip off! Found no help searching online resources that might offer resolution. Its like this issue is top secret. To add insult to injury, the Fandango "help" link is so incredibly backed up (no surprise), I gave up after waiting 43 minutes for live chat assistance. Yep, I was that determined to resolve... however, "chat help" was a no show. NOT A FAN. Never "donating" my $ by default for these again.

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Thumbnail of user rachelm298
Ohio
1 review
0 helpful votes
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November 3rd, 2018

I called to lookup a gift card number I used previously and had the confirmation number, tracking number, tickets and everything. The lady I spoke with was very rude and kept cutting me off. She kept telling me I was wrong and even proceeded to tell me I must have gone to the movie 2 years ago when I went a couple months ago. When I told her to lookup the release date of the movie she magically found my gift card number and ended the phone call very rude.

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Georgia
2 reviews
10 helpful votes
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February 9th, 2019

They add on a fee and ask you for a credit card to cover the extra but when you do the gift card fails and they charage you the full amount. Called customer service and they laughed at me called me a liar and hung up on me. They won't refund you the extra charges. I have sent a complaint to consumer affairs, thy have so many from this company. Do not buy from them. Third party scam artists,

Thumbnail of user cagirli
Georgia
1 review
18 helpful votes
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June 16th, 2019

I just bought (5/30/19) two of the $25 gift cards from SAMs and redeemed them today (6/15/19) for the family to see Secret Life of Pets 2. Yes, MovieTickets.com was bought out by Fandango... but you CAN REDEEM THE GIFT CARDS. Just not on Fandango's site. You have to go to the movie tickets.com site & select the movie, and check out. SIMPLE. It does say on the redemption process to register an account, but I checked out as a guest & it worked fine. Also - I was able to apply my FREE Stubs member number and waive the $6.95 fee. Easy process, I will purchase these gift cards again!

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California
1 review
1 helpful vote
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September 16th, 2018

I received $25 gift card from MovieTickets for my birthday. When I tried to use the card on the MovieTickets.com site, I kept getting redirected to Fandango.com, which could not accept the promo code on the back of my card. Why can't I use this card?

Thumbnail of user jeffd91
Texas
1 review
3 helpful votes
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March 11th, 2017

Received two of these gift cards for Christmas and decided to get a baby sitter for the kids and go to the movies. We bough the tickets an hour before show time and showed up about 30 minutes prior to the start of the movie. The theatre we chose had assigned seating, and little did we know that the site had chosen our seats for us. Of course the site managed to choose the worst seats possible which were front row, all the way in the corner. We were unable to change our seat selection at the theatre because by the time we sat down all of the other seats were taken. Fandango is 100x better and actually offers seat choices in the app.

TL; DR Just buy Fandango gift cards, or gift cards to the actual theatre. Movietickets.com blows.

Thumbnail of user tonyb360
Georgia
1 review
9 helpful votes
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March 23rd, 2019

This has to be the worst gift card that someone has ever given me. There are so many steps just to buy a movie ticket by the time you get through all the steps the seat is not available. It's very cumbersome to use discount codes is very cumbersome to use your stubs card this is just a very frustrating deal is very cumbersome to use this form of payment with another form of payment I am so unhappy with this.

Thumbnail of user rebeccat141
New York
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1 helpful vote
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January 10th, 2019

You can NOT redeem these gift cards. I picked the movie I wanted and selected the tickets, then I went to pay (redeem) and nothing happened. I kept clicking and clicking the link and it would not progress. I tried multiple times and nothing happened. You can not redeem these tickets.

Thumbnail of user davidl404
California
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March 15th, 2017

They make it too complicated to even use the gift card and then they charge a few. Stay away.

They make it too complicated to even use the gift card and then they charge a few. Stay away.

They make it too complicated to even use the gift card and then they charge a few. Stay away.

Thumbnail of user brianf3
New Jersey
1 review
5 helpful votes
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February 24th, 2011

While purchasing two tickets the Web site did not complete the transaction. Message said site is temporarily down and to try again with in the hour. This was after entering the transaction detail but with out the confirmation. Came back later and started the transaction again and completed it. Then checked E-mail that actually both transactions were completed and I had purchased two tickets I did not need. I received the reimbursement for the extra tickets at the AMC movie theater but I can not get reimbursed for the transaction fee charged by MoiveTickets.com I have spoken too them three times and sent two E-mails. They ignore the E-mails, and the people on the phone tell me a Supervisor will contact me. It's not the $2.00 but it's them taking responsibility. How many thousands of $1 transaction fees do they rip off from peple and no one complains because it's only $1.

Thumbnail of user tascam
Colorado
1 review
2 helpful votes
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April 25th, 2018

I called customer service after trying to order online and use a giftcard. There was an error with the transaction and the website instructed me to call customer service, so I did! Ultimately, the lady on the phone had me holding for a while but I can work with that. The part that was awful was she kept directing me to do it myself online and I told her that I already had and that is why I was calling. She said "I don't know why you want me to waste my time" and at that point I had enough of her pushing me off and I said (working for chick-fil-a and Hilti customer service myself) "I don't know why you are being rude when I have been nothing but patient and calm" to which she responded "well I have other customers." Do I not count as a customer? Wow... she was nothing but short with me and would not listen to a word I said since she just kept telling me to do the same exact thing that I had already done and she was unwilling to take a course of action to resolve the problem.

Thumbnail of user sarah3094
New Jersey
2 reviews
4 helpful votes
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November 9th, 2016

This company is such a joke! I purchased gift cards but alway have a struggle attempting to actually purchase tickets through the movetickets.com website. The codes don't apply, or I end up getting an error message, resulting in missing the movie I intended to see!

So frustrating! Plus, their customer service does nothing for these inconveniences just says - oh we'll send a report to our technical service team which then does nothing about it!

This is the 10th attempt on many separate occasions with the very same issues over the course of 6 months... back these gift cards go to Costco! Bye bye movie tickets.com, you will soon be shut down!

Thumbnail of user jonathang233
Florida
1 review
0 helpful votes
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March 24th, 2019

Like everyone else on here, I'm telling you this unethical "business" is a scam. They recognize I have a $25 gift card, but refuse to take it. I called multiple times and finally someone answered after a 30min hold. He recognized I had a gift card and said "I'm sorry we aren't taking it. I don't know what's wrong. I guess try later." When I asked if he could give me a new gift card code to replace mine he simply said, "no."
He admitted that it wasn't fair. He admitted that they took my money and now won't take the card. No refund, no replacement. These owners are trash. It's straight up theft. Look at the unanimous 1 star reviews! Why isn't this thing getting shut down?!

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Nebraska
1 review
20 helpful votes
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December 30th, 2016

I too had a terrible experience on Mon., Dec. 26th and Tue., the 27th. I figured it was probably due to the holidays. We tried for hours to try to purchase tickets for Tue. (which is the busiest day of the year for movies). I gave up and decided to wait a day. Had no problem. Ordered my tickets, picked my seats and printed my tickets at home. Walked into the theater and handed my printed tickets and did not have to fight the Tuesday crowds. I think the key thing to remember about all the complaints made on Dec 26 is most likely the high volume of ticket purchases and/or possibly people employed by the company were on vacation and the system was overloaded.

Thumbnail of user aidenw7
District of Columbia
2 reviews
3 helpful votes
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February 3rd, 2016

The fact that you have to give them your credit card in order to use a prepaid gift given to you... the $#*!tards sitting around there board rooms figuring out take your money and your info and not deliver should be strung up by there scrotum or labia and business degrees shoved up there rectums lubeless and then poked with small sharp sticks by the unwitting victims for eternity! What a logic hole business... go $#*! yourself movietickets.com!

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New Jersey
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August 1st, 2017

This website is garbage. I've never had any issues buying tickets on the theaters' websites, but I have to use this piece of sh*t website in order to use my AT&T Ticket Twosday promo. I wouldn't be surprised if this was done on purpose to frustrate users so much they'd give up trying to use it. This is the second week in a row I've had the website freeze going from window to window while the timer is still counting down. Eventually you run out of time because you spent the entire few minutes waiting for the site to load. I've tried this on multiple computers and my phone. I really wish they'd fix their servers!

Thumbnail of user ryanh123
Virginia
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June 24th, 2017

As an AT&T customer, there's a program called AT&T Thanks that gives you a free movie ticket once per week with the purchase of a movie ticket. The AT&T Thanks program directs you to buy your tickets at MovieTickets.com. Several weeks after buying tickets, a charge showed up on my bank account from MovieTickets on a week that I did not buy any movie tickets. I logged into my account there and there was no record of me buying any tickets that week and their support department was absolutely no help. I eventually had to call my bank and dispute the charge.

Thumbnail of user tinar81
California
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June 23rd, 2017

You guys are ripped off. You designed your wedsite to call this 800 numbers and once the customer call, they give all this "special offers, give away crap and no real person to talk to... completely garbage.

Thumbnail of user johnw603
Indiana
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January 30th, 2017

We received a gift card. I tried to use it on my computer and their website wouldn't work. I tried a different browser. I tried a different network. I tried different security settings. Nothing. The service simply does not work and you are throwing your money away. Avoid this scam!

Tip for consumers:
AVOID. Do not use this service. Fandango works far, far better.

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Thumbnail of user lesm19
Michigan
1 review
3 helpful votes
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March 17th, 2017

Ok so i was buying tickets to see SKULL ISLAND and i went on this site. So after i ordered 5 tickets i go to pay for them and when i put my card info in i guess my auto fill filled in the wrong zip code for my card so the transaction was declined but yet and still they put a hold on my funds so i gave them a call it took 25 minutes to get through to them then they told me to call my bank they were very rude and lied to me about putting a hold on my funds. That was last sat. Its friday and my funds still haven't been returned.

Thumbnail of user sashav10
Illinois
1 review
4 helpful votes
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August 1st, 2017

This is the slowest worst website I have used EVER. It freezes for a minute in between windows and you only get a couple minutes to reserve the tickets before the time limit expires on you. So I never got to get my tickets and kept having to start the session over and no matter how fast I typed my info in it always froze and then expired. THIS WEBSITE SUCKS. I tried on my cell phone, iPad, and laptop and nothing works. F*** MovieTickets.com!

Thumbnail of user jamesc386
Washington
1 review
1 helpful vote
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December 27th, 2016

Do not go to this site. Do not get gift cards for this site. Do not get the app. Do not even speak the name of this site out loud. Not only is the site clunky, inaccessible, constantly dropping connection, unable to do even simple things like show the pictures for seats you want to reserve, but the app is terrible too. I wouldn't recommend this site to my enemies.

Thumbnail of user mikeb329
Wisconsin
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December 27th, 2016

You pay a service feee and cannot print or download your ticket purchase to a mobile device. So, you still need to stand in a line at a kiosk or box-office, pull out you credit card and provide the confirmation number to finally get your ticket purchase. MovieTickets offers no service or value. It is just a ripoff.

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Thumbnail of user alexisc52
New York
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July 7th, 2017

I pre-ordered tickets to a movie for my sons and i knowing that the movie would probably be sold out the Friday in which the movie was to bee released. Mid way through the order i dropped my phone. The site had been closed out. I went back and reordered the tickets. Having never received a confirmation email i checked with my credit card company only to discover i had been charged twice. I wnt back on the site-app only to discover the customer service number is not available and after searching for the number i got through to customer service who informed me that i would have to negotiate with the theater about being reimbursed. Smh

Thumbnail of user tomt285
Georgia
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November 18th, 2018

You shouldn't waste your time on these gift cards, even if they seem like a real bargain. The website is so glitchy and customer service is so bad, you typically give up trying to get your tickets. Time limits (like Ticketmaster) and login issues lead to abandoning efforts and requiring you to try again. You try again and guess what, the seats you selected are no longer available. If you do get in touch with customer service, they blame the issue on the theater. And then, you get to start all over again. I would not be surprised if there weren't several BBB complaints about this company. Reminds of an extended warranty company that doesn't really cover anything. No one should ever buy from movietickets.com EVER

Thumbnail of user laverneg6
South Carolina
2 reviews
1 helpful vote
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February 2nd, 2017

The worst gift cards I have ever received. It is a rip off.DO NOT BY ANY MEANS BUY THESE. Could not get any help from customer service.The system seems to always freeze. It took payment twice on one occasion and I could not get my money back even though it was because the system froze.

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