No, movietickets.com, bad!

While the movietickets.com website itself may be respectable enough, they rent their preconfirmation page to a bunch of jerks at a company called Reservation Rewards. They’re very much from the school of thought that says the customer is a transient beast, and should be as thoroughly fleeced as possible before they inevitably figure out what a terrible company you run.

After you submit your ticket order, you’re greeted to some over-happy and irritating woman’s voice telling you “Congratulations!” This is a good time to have your speakers up real loud (developers who create such things should lose their interweb privileges). But she’s not congratulating you on going to the movies, she’s just excited that you now have the opportunity to get $10 off your next movie ticket!

All you have to do is sign up for their shitty discount service, which offers discounts “up to 50%” at businesses they won’t actually name until you’re signed up. This is free! ..For 30 days, and then it costs $12 a month. What was that crazy website voice so excited about? You can’t even claim your $10 bucks off at the movietickets website; Reservation Rewards sends you your money (a process which I can only imagine takes six to eight weeks) after you make another purchase.

Best of all, you don’t have to give them any credit card information: they’ll just bill the card you gave movietickets.com. How nice of them! I imagine the vast majority of their customer base consists of helpless old ladies who entered their email addresses because they thought they won a prize, and now can’t figure out where 12 bucks goes every month.

Not cool.