Movie Theater will never take my money for candy again!

[iJon]

First of all, sorry about the quality. My ELPH was at home and my Coolpix 995 was dead here at work, so i tried to make due with a screen shot of the iSight, but you get the point. Well I was tired of buying candy at the movies because the prices are high (although thats the only thing they make money on). So i started buying this candy at Wal-Mart, but wal mart stopped carrying it. so i decided to go to the source, i order from a wholesaler. basically a brown box came into today wth 30 boxes of cookie dough bites. Price 23 dollars, if you order over 400 they pay shipping. sincei didnt need that much candy it cost 7 dollars even. so i came out a little under as if i bought at walmart. www.vmeecc.com

iJon

[Mr. Anderson]

haha! That's great! :D But you need to really like to eat the candy and hope its not chocolate when the temp is up in the 90s......

Good deal, too. But don't usually buy anything but popcorn when going to the movies and even that's way too much these days.

D

[mactastic]

You mean a box of Milk Duds doesn't really cost $6???:p

[eyelikeart]

sweet god...that's a lot of candy!! :eek:

too bad I'm not a candy eater...I usually bring a granola bar or something whenever I go to the show... ;)

[Powerbook G5]

When I was little, my mom would take us to the store to buy candy for the movie and she'd sneak it into the movie in her purse...it's amazing how pissed the movie theaters get if they catch you with your own candy, I've seen them actually kick people out for bringing their own Milk Duds.

[iJon]

Originally posted by Powerbook G5
When I was little, my mom would take us to the store to buy candy for the movie and she'd sneak it into the movie in her purse...it's amazing how pissed the movie theaters get if they catch you with your own candy, I've seen them actually kick people out for bringing their own Milk Duds.
well i learned why, my friend used to work at a movie theater. he said they hardly make money on the movie. them make more money the more the movie has been out, and we all know the more the movie has been out, the less people go. so thats where the candy comes in, they make money there. the other day my friend and i went to see 28 days later, we went to wal mart and bought us 2 20 ounce drinks and i walked in there with my hoody on in 90 degree weather with drinks in the shirt, didnt get caught.

iJon

[bennetsaysargh]

i never buy candy there. i usualy sneak in candy from CVS on the other part of the mall, or go to shop rite on the way. sometimes i even sneak in asoda! the prices are ridiculous!:eek:

never will i buy anything from a movie theater except for a ticket or popcorn, but i might be forced to sneak in everything eventually with higher prices and less money. includoing myself:p

[Powerbook G5]

Here you can get a movie ticket for only $5.50 if you have a student ID, it's nice to get nearly $4 off your ticket, but then you notice you end up paying more for a soda at the concession stand than your ticket...that's just crazy. I remember after a movie thinking I was thirsty but the cheapest thing they had was a $4.75 bottle of water! It's worse than Disney World!

[alia]

It would be really hilarious if you got REALLY sick of that candy with like 20 boxes left. I always have to rotate. Too much of the same thing and I get sick of it.

:)

Alia

[Powerbook G5]

You can give the rest to me if you get sick of it. :)

[sacrilicious]

That is perhaps a lot of money saved. I'm tempted to do this with Redbull...$2-3 a can is a little more than I'd like to spend. Anyone know about getting that online? I've only looked at eBay.

[scem0]

Must....... not...... buy.......

wow - I really want all that. And it is a great deal. I want to stay in tip-top shape for school though, so I better not ;).

Thanks for tempting me though :).

scem0

[tazo]

Originally posted by sacrilicious
That is perhaps a lot of money saved. I'm tempted to do this with Redbull...$2-3 a can is a little more than I'd like to spend. Anyone know about getting that online? I've only looked at eBay.

You honestly like Red Bull enough to buy it in mass quantities? Wow....

[shadowfax]

that is classic iJon. you should lug it into the theater and sell it person to person at half the price of the theater.... i bet you would still manage a massive profit margin.

the times are ahead when we'll need to sneak in microwaved popcorn bags (theater butter flavor, naturally) in our purses. i'll make sure that if i find a girlfriend in college, she has an utterly massive purse.

[iJon]

sorry to temp to again scem, but this makes it look much better.

iJon

[MrMacMan]

Originally posted by tazo
You honestly like Red Bull enough to buy it in mass quantities? Wow....
Yeah Might look at Distrubitors (http://www.redbulldistributorsusa.com/)

But red-bull is really hard to come by, because they hold a tight grip on the sale of this product.

Originally posted by iJon
sorry to temp to again scem, but this makes it look much better.

iJon

Much better image.

[Powerbook G5]

My girlfriend never carries a purse...perhaps I should ask her to...cheap popcorn and candy...mmm...no more $4 Raisinettes!

[iJon]

also check out some of these sites guys. i believe its mckandy.com. they have a great selection, but a poor price on the cookie dough bites. they had 144 bags of m&m's for like 41 dollars. equaled out to be 20 something cents a bad. get a couple of buddies together and you got yourself some cheap ass candy. and i thought sams was good.

iJon

[gello2424]

WOW! I wish me and my girlfriend went to the movies the other night and with the student discount it was 21.50!!!

Here is CA at the Irvine Spectrum they have to be making money. Every movie just about is sold out Wed. through Sun.

I like that bulk buy deal. Here i go to Cosco and get Sour Patch Kids...my girlfriend loves those things.

[iJon]

well i messed up one on thing. the candy was 23.70 and freight was 5.69. bringing it to a total of 29.39.

Wholesaler - 29.39

Wal-mart - 32.17 (with tax and then having to go each time, plus they dont sell it anymore.)

Theater - 67.50

iJon

[Doctor Q]

Everyone buys a ticket. Only some people buy snacks. So it would be more fair if all the theaters raised their ticket prices and stopped overcharging for popcorn and candy and drinks and other snacks. Will it ever happen? No.

[wdlove]

That candy looks good iJon!

Now I see why I don't go to theater's. Prices have really gone up. It certainly makes it hard for a family!

[iJon]

Originally posted by wdlove
That candy looks good iJon!

Now I see why I don't go to theater's. Prices have really gone up. It certainly makes it hard for a family!
the movie prices dont bother me. for the same reason i dont want to watch the summers blockbuster hit in mplayer with fuzzy sound a bootleg quality on a 20 inch cinema display. its just for some candy that hardly lasts me the movie. i would rather buy it for 125% less.

iJon

[kiwi_the_iwik]

Jeez - don't get me started...

I went to Terminator 3 the other day (a really "feel-good" movie, wouldn't you agree? Just let me slash my wrists now...), and thought it necessary to get a slushie and a box of popcorn. The ticket price was OK - £6.50 (in the city, expect to pay TWICE that amount...), but for my extravagant meal, I paid an extra £8.50.

I mean - WTF?!?!?

It was NEVER that bad before. Stuff it - I'm REALLY going out to buy that widescreen TV now. Who NEEDS the movies?!?

:mad:

[vollspacken]

mmmmmmh, CANDY!!!

the prices on pop, beer and candy/popcorn are not that high here in Germany, so you can always afford a medium size drink or two bottles of beer. that's why I never sneak stuff in (o.k., sometimes to multiplex theatres, I don't want to harm the little more arty ones that struggle for survival)...
but the prices some people mentioned above are just insane! when water costs more than the ticket, something is wrong!!!

vSpacken

[tazo]

Originally posted by iJon
the movie prices dont bother me. for the same reason i dont want to watch the summers blockbuster hit in mplayer with fuzzy sound a bootleg quality on a 20 inch cinema display. its just for some candy that hardly lasts me the movie. i would rather buy it for 125% less.

iJon

Maybe you need to look harder on p2ps for quality movies. I have seen xvid video files on a large screen and sworn it was a dvd.....

[Wes]

Originally posted by kiwi_the_iwik
Jeez - don't get me started...

I went to Terminator 3 the other day (a really "feel-good" movie, wouldn't you agree? Just let me slash my wrists now...), and thought it necessary to get a slushie and a box of popcorn. The ticket price was OK - £6.50 (in the city, expect to pay TWICE that amount...), but for my extravagant meal, I paid an extra £8.50.

I mean - WTF?!?!?

It was NEVER that bad before. Stuff it - I'm REALLY going out to buy that widescreen TV now. Who NEEDS the movies?!?

:mad:

How do you get in for £6.50? I assume you go to the Kingston one which is like £7.50, unless like me you have a student card which makes it £5.00. I went to the Pirates a few days back and didn't buy any food, I usually spend £5 on getting in and £5 on the food, so I just didn't eat popcorn and went to Burger King afterwards. How healthy!

[cr2sh]

One of my favorite things to do is go see movies by myself.. I love sitting there by myself, all the way in the back, with my LARGEST COKE, and my LARGEST POPCORN, and my BIG BAG OF PEANUT M&M's, and knowing I don't have to share it with anyone... who cares if it cost me $20.. it tastes better.

One time me and my buddy Chuck took his little brother and sister to the movie theatre, everybody got a large coke, a large popcorn and several bags of candly a piece.. it came out to $97!

[G4scott]

and America is fat because...

Although that is a really good deal. And I love that kind of candy :p

have fun at the movies...

[MacFan25]

I can't stand it when you are at the movies, and you say, "I want a small coke". Then they go, "You can get a large for $.50 extra." I feel like saying, "If I wanted a large I would have asked for it!" :p

But, I don't blaim you iJon. The tickets are expensive enough. It's like $7.50 around here now.

[Doctor Q]

How I save money:

I buy discounted movie tickets, $5 to $6 per ticket, depending on which chain. You can buy them by mail using coupons in the "Entertainment" books that have all those restaurant half-off coupons. I've done that but I can also get them from a concierge at my office building. These tickets aren't good for the first 2 weeks that a new movie is out, so I wait, even though everyone else seems to insist on seeing every movie opening week. I joined AMC's MovieWatchers program so I get a free small popcorn or drink every once in a while. I pay them a dollar to upgrade the size. I try to pick a theater with free parking (not always easy in Los Angeles). And I bring my own candy.

Sometimes I break these rules, but I save money by using these methods most of the time.

[wdlove]

There is nothing quite like a home theather. You can view when you want. No travel problems. No snack problems!

[iJon]

Originally posted by tazo
Maybe you need to look harder on p2ps for quality movies. I have seen xvid video files on a large screen and sworn it was a dvd.....
i have some good dvd rips on my computer, but it takes a while for them to hit the internet. but i still like paying to go see it on the big screen.

iJon

[Powerbook G5]

There's no substitute for seeing it in the theater...with student discount, the tickets are a pretty reasonable price, it's just the snacks that kill you, so getting them your own way is the best way to go to keep from spending more on your snacks than if you had went to the fanciest 5 star French restaurant in town...

[Doctor Q]

Originally posted by wdlove
There is nothing quite like a home theather...Originally posted by Powerbook G5
There's no substitute for seeing it in the theater...You are both right... and wrong. Some movies really need to be seen on the big screen, such as epic adventures and movies with grand scenery or special effects. That's why movie revivals are fun. In the past couple years I've gone to theater showings of Star Wars IV, V, and VI, The Sound of Music, and The Nightmare Before Christmas.

There are also movies for which you go to the theater for the communal experience, to be one of the crowd, or to see it during the first theater run because everyone is talking about it. A lot of people went to Titanic for that reason. And if they ever make "Macintosh - The Movie", I bet we'd all want to see it together at a theater!

Other movies, including most dramas and comedies, are probably just as good at home if you have a big screen and a good sound system.

I wonder if the people who leave a trail of popcorn, candy wrappers, and spilled drinks in the theater do the same at home?

[mrjamin]

i LOVE the cinema! where i am, there's a place that does student tickets for £3.50 ($4.75ish) which is pretty good.

One thing that does my nut with these big chain-cinemas is the sound. It's generally pretty crappy and way too loud - poor quality + excessive volume isn't pleasant.

My aunt owns a cinema with one of the best sound-system in the south of England - custom designed and installed by some german company - they had to get new seats because the old ones were working themselves loose from the bass ;)

independant cinemas rock - especially when your aunt owns one ;)

[G4scott]

Originally posted by wdlove
There is nothing quite like a home theather. You can view when you want. No travel problems. No snack problems!

And no new movies either ;)

Just having fun... :D

[XnavxeMiyyep]

We have a local theater that sells coffee for 10¢, large popcorn for 50¢, and soda for 30¢. On Mondays and Tuesdays, it only costs $1 per person to get in! It only shows one movie at a time though, and is temporarily closed for repairs.