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Cineplex’s shady, carnival charge of an extra $1.50 for online bookings

Corey Mintz

Corey Mintz is the author of The Next Supper: The End of Restaurants as We Knew Them, and What Comes After.

Did you even notice when Cineplex CGX-T started charging an extra $1.50 for each ticket purchased online? I had been paying this for a year, unaware of the change. If it feels like Canada’s biggest movie exhibitor is being sneaky with those fees, the Competition Bureau agrees. In a case before the Competition Tribunal, a lawyer for the Competition Commissioner describes Cineplex’s method as “drip pricing,” a marketing technique in which “a price is unattainable, because consumers must pay additional charges or fees to buy a product or service.”

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This is such a ridiculous thing for the Competition Bureau to be focusing on.  First of all its outside of their mandate.  Second of all the online ticket charge is clearly shown in the summary of your order BEFORE you pay for your ticket.