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Re: THE SHOWFILMFIRST EARLY ALERTS SERVICE

#11 Post by D-Fens » Fri Feb 07, 2014 11:24 am

Of course they hate the free sites, it destroys their business model. If everyone here emailed them and said they were planning on bypassing their service they'd probably just start offering more and more tickets to sites that required a pa*d subscription... oh

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Re: THE SHOWFILMFIRST EARLY ALERTS SERVICE

#12 Post by 99h13 » Fri Feb 07, 2014 11:36 am

D-Fens wrote:Of course they hate the free sites, it destroys their business model. If everyone here emailed them and said they were planning on bypassing their service they'd probably just start offering more and more tickets to sites that required a pa*d subscription... oh
Yer I worry about them coming up with a new way of blocking us getting codes!
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Re: THE SHOWFILMFIRST EARLY ALERTS SERVICE

#13 Post by The Sparrow » Fri Feb 07, 2014 9:15 pm

D-Fens wrote:Of course they hate the free sites, it destroys their business model. If everyone here emailed them and said they were planning on bypassing their service they'd probably just start offering more and more tickets to sites that required a pa*d subscription... oh
But telling them is really not the best thing to do.
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Re: THE SHOWFILMFIRST EARLY ALERTS SERVICE

#14 Post by The Sparrow » Fri Feb 07, 2014 9:16 pm

99h13 wrote:
D-Fens wrote:Of course they hate the free sites, it destroys their business model. If everyone here emailed them and said they were planning on bypassing their service they'd probably just start offering more and more tickets to sites that required a pa*d subscription... oh
Yer I worry about them coming up with a new way of blocking us getting codes!
They have already introduced methods to do just that.
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Re: THE SHOWFILMFIRST EARLY ALERTS SERVICE

#15 Post by mobilephone » Sat Feb 08, 2014 6:55 pm

But do they really mind that people post codes? If they did, they'd easily just go invited guest list all the time

They're job is to get the cinema full, and what better way to do that than let people spread the code for you?

If the promotion company wants a specific audience type, then they'll just use their 'invited guest list' option...

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Re: THE SHOWFILMFIRST EARLY ALERTS SERVICE

#16 Post by The Sparrow » Sat Feb 15, 2014 1:01 am

mobilephone wrote:But do they really mind that people post codes? If they did, they'd easily just go invited guest list all the time

They're job is to get the cinema full, and what better way to do that than let people spread the code for you?

If the promotion company wants a specific audience type, then they'll just use their 'invited guest list' option...
You've obviously never read the SFF FAQ's/
Why do people post codes on the Internet
This is really unfair and we (and most of the database) struggle to understand why people do this. You post the code anonymously, and stop other people getting tickets, for the sake of giving them to strangers who won’t even thank you?! If we do trace people doing this we will take them off the database, and we appreciate help from other members in tracking down these people – it’s pointless, and stops you getting tickets! However, you will usually find that by the time third parties get a code and put it on the internet, all tickets have been allocated to our members!
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Re: THE SHOWFILMFIRST EARLY ALERTS SERVICE

#17 Post by Beate » Sat Feb 15, 2014 10:52 am

Their rant makes absolutely no sense. Surely if I am able to get tickets I AM a member and they ought to give all members the same chance of getting tickets. They cull people now and then anyway for no apparent reason - it takes 2 seconds to register again.
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Re: THE SHOWFILMFIRST EARLY ALERTS SERVICE

#18 Post by The Sparrow » Mon Feb 17, 2014 2:58 pm

Disney have the right idea but they are also open to faking I guess.
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