I will not be paying extra for a seat if I'm already paying a monthly subscription that recently went up in price.

by probablyupamountain

45 comments

  1. Even before this dynamic ticket pricing they removed student/senior discounts, haven’t visited one of their cinemas since. Much better options available.

  3. Yep I cancelled as well, felt very unfair to get charged extra for a comfortable seat. I switched to IMC instead.

  5. Seems mad that in this era of legal and illegal streaming that a cinema is doing their utmost to disenfranchise their core customers.

  6. Dynamic pricing at the cinema? ffs that shite needs to fucking die.

  7. There’s a good few movies I want to see so I’ll be cancelling it once they’re done, asinine decision they’ve made, gouging people for nothing.

  8. 100%. Have to nip this kind of gouging in the bud. Late stage capitalism is a cancer.

  9. And also they removed child tickets being cheaper and now they are all the same price, as far as I can tell. Having to pay 15€ or more for a child ticket to see a movie in the cinema is pathetic. Cancelled mine and I’ll be going to other local cinemas.

  11. I love how you included the screenshot to prove it!

    Seriously, though, dynamic pricing is absolute bollox.

  12. I find odeons limitless is the best bang for buck these days!

    with the 10% off the food , on top of free movie tickets , and us going the cinema atleast 1 a week, but more often than not 2 a week , it’s a no brainer!

  13. If where you live has an Odeon, you have basically no reason to go near the place. Their pricing is madness.

  14. I haven’t cancelled but I am raging about it.

    My plan is to book the cheap seats and then just sit in any unbooked “good” seats after the trailers. I usually go midweek when it’s quiet anyways

  15. Was there an option to let them know why you were cancelling? If not, be sure to send them a mail letting them know.

  16. Look, this is a disgrace and cinema’s should be doing everything they can to maintain their customer base. But if you’re still paying for streaming services, who hike their prices annually, instead of this you’re part of the bigger picture problem.

  17. First they made MAXX (and other premium options not available in Cork Omniplex) more expensive on the pass, now this. Cancelled yesterday.

  18. It was great value a few years ago but this is ridiculous.

  19. If I wasn’t going to the cinema so much lately I’d be cancelling mine.

    Went 3 times in 10 days without one, costs about a third of the price with one.

  20. It’s not actual dynamic pricing, it’s worse, it’s a flat increase for particular rows across the board. At least with actual dynamic pricing the quiet screenings wouldn’t be affected.

  22. Seems a lot are. Ridiculous pricing, id go out of my way to avoid them if it was local cinema.

  24. It’s tiered pricing, not dynamic. Dynamic pricing would be much worse. If I still had my omnipass I’d definitely be cancelling but I already cancelled last year because the busses were a joke.

  25. All aboard! Har har! I find it much more thrilling to hunt for a movie online if it’s uploaded somewhere. No more cinemas for me.

  26. I was actually looking to join omniplex soon. What’s the change with dynamic pricing?

  27. Good to know. Omniplex will now never be an option I consider.

  28. We cancelled back around September October when they increased the prices. First back was due in November so that sealed the deal but it’s no longer worth the price unless you go a lot.

    It’s crazy the decrease in value, used to get a discount on snacks as well a few years ago.

  29. Haven’t been to the Cinema in a long time because of phone fuckers ruining it. I do miss it though.

  30. In the good old days of Virigin Cinema you used to be able to go and have a hotdog and a beer while you waited on the cinema. Or go to a late show while trollied and fall asleep and miss the ending – Highlander 2 I’m looking at you.

    The place was a hang out, it had everything, even an arcade machine place next door. Imagine a place with arcades, screens, food, drink, multiple levels and maybe bowling in the basement open early to late. It would be gas crack

  31. Yes we cancelled last month. We were going to the Salthill one where they’ve also removed the freestyle/refillable drinks machines! The bathrooms are disgusting too.

  32. I’ve worked on a Covid ward and ICU but Omniplex remains the most traumatising place I’ve ever worked in. How they treated staff was absolutely awful and them buying the shopping centre in Longford just to leave it idle has killed what little hope that town had.

  33. Only noticed this last week when I went to go cinema. Cancelled immediately, wasn’t getting my money’s worth out of it most months anyway but for the 2/3 months a year that I’d go cinema more than once always thought it was handy having the Omnipass but would genuinely have to go cinema 3-4 times each month for it to be worth sitting in half decent seats

  34. Yep! Myself and the wife cancelled our memberships last month.

  35. Yep cancelled due to this. They didn’t help themselves by putting prices up twice in 6 months and then this dynamic seating BS. Half the time I went the place was empty so punishing subscription holders (who give them guaranteed monthly revenue) was a pretty dire decision. But hey ho- back to visiting the cinema maybe twice a year for something big as opposed to 2-3 times a month with the subscription

  36. I think they have completely overestimated people’s attitude to the cinema. It’s not like Ryanair bringing in dynamic seating where you have little other choice if you want to fly, people aren’t really going to the cinema in general. Bizarre business model.

    It’s clearly a struggling industry with the likes of Netflix and streaming platforms, and to completely alienate customers who have been loyal and rip them off is really going to do far more damage than they think.

    For me, the cinema is a take it or leave it sort of thing. If I get a good deal like a 2 for 1 I might go once/twice a year. Moves like this push you towards I’ll leave it.

  37. Don’t have an omnipass but just looked at my local cinema and €7.95 to sit 2 rows from the front seems like good value to me.

    It would encourage me to go more often in theory, except nothing really catches my attention these days. Went onto to the ifco site there to see upcoming releases and everything looks shite.

  39. Never bothered with their crappy LieMax screens anyway.

  40. I am starting to wonder if cinemas are money laundering schemes just like the sweet shops. Cinemas get hefty grants to open up too I’m sure.

  41. I cancelled my Omniplex pass a year or two ago because nearly every movie was ruined by loud, obnoxious teenagers. Even when I picked quieter time slots, there was no guarantee of a decent viewing experience. No security, not enough staff to solve the issues —it felt like a free-for-all at times.Total waste of money. I get a perfect movie night at home and it doesn’t cost 1 and a half grand.

  42. It’d be one thing if the seats were good or different, but a ton of seats in Cork now look like someone took a knife to them.

  43. Haven’t looked into the exact pricing but isn’t everyone who would have this service already choosing off peak times intentionally to avoid idiots or overcrowding?

    Will it actually affect your costs or is it a principles issue?

  44. I thought they silently rolled back on this, no? They implemented it, then everyone complained and cancelled and they kept the tiered seating but didn’t charge omnipass subscribers.

    Have they re introduced it?

  45. I don’t know what the point of subscribing is anyway, there’s only a couple of films worth watching every year.

    Cinema is dead. All the good writers are writing TV shows.

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