Buying movie tickets online sounds good in theory, until you end up queuing at the candy bar to redeem your printed out e-ticket for real tickets you can give to the usher. Village has finally launched a mobile site that lets you buy tickets online and use a QR code sent to your mobile as a dedicated ticket.
It’s interesting that Village has opted to use a mobile site rather than a dedicated app for the service, but it does mean that almost any phone user can use it, regardless of mobile OS.
The biggest caveat about the service is that it automatically allocates seating, which is frustrating if you like sitting in a certain position within a cinema.
[Village via Lifehacker]
Ben
Thursday, May 12, 2011 at 10:16 AMive never had to queue at the candy bar to redeem printed out e-tickets for real tickets? just hand the printed ticket straight to the usher
Shell
Thursday, May 12, 2011 at 11:58 AMOr you go to the little machine to get a printed ticket via scanning your credit card. They never have lines.
Cameron
Thursday, May 12, 2011 at 1:55 PMAutomatic allocated seating? Lost me there.
But village already give you the option to print out tickets at home that have a barcode on it they just scan when you get there (or in some cases don’t scan). So there’s no queuing anyway. Hoyts however…..
warcroft
Thursday, May 12, 2011 at 7:31 PMCant choose your own seats.
Pass.
Barbara kouloubos
Wednesday, February 1, 2012 at 6:26 PMSigning up to villege green movies