"Do not buy Fandango Gift Cards, buy gift cards directly from the theatre. Most theatres in my area don't even accept Fandango gift cards - this was extremely disappointing, so do your research. When you purchase a Fandango gift card, you cannot spontaneously go the theatre and use your gift card on the spot. You first have to spend an unreasonable amount of time online applying the gift card towards the ticket purchase. THEN, they have the audacity to charge you a "convenience fee". for buying a ticket online. This fee cannot be avoided because you can only use the gift cards on their website! Sneaky way to nickle and dime the consumer. Most companies are doing cartwheels to attract loyal consumers. Fandango is clearly only trying to scrape up as much revenue as possible, regardless of satisfying their customers, before they go out of business.... for obvious reasons. "

"Paid for two tickets ended up the tickets were for a city two and one half hours away. Being I googled movie theaters in my town I never thought to look at the address. Didn’t realize the error until we were turned away at our local theater. I called up customer service and explained my situation. They said I would receive an e-mail with their decision on weather or not I would receive a credit.
In the end I received an e-mail stating how unfortunate & sorry they were however no credit would be forthcoming. I will never use their service again along with no referrals to friends and family. I do recognize I share some of the responsibilitiy for the mistake however it speaks volumes that the company is willing to lose a customer over 2 tickets and not even willing to meet me half way!"

"I had fandango credit and wanted to purchase tickets with it and after being denied with no reason for over a week I waited on hold for live chat for what was suppose to be 5 mins but was 15mins+ in reality and got no help they blamed my financial institute? Even after I told it was fandango credit not a bank or credit card company! So they have my money I have no tickets and had fill my of worthless customer support."

"Made a mistake typing show date
Paid again at the box-
They wouldn’t refund
I will never use their service again.
Horrible experience-
They can shove my 67.00 up their"

"They tell you to claim your "rewards" only to find out that you have to purchase more points to get the rewards you supposedly already got. How stupid do they think people actually are? And now, there is a "convenience fee" applied to every ticket you buy. How "convenient" they make it to be ripped off. I boycott companies that purposely delude people. Bye bye, FanScamO"

"Fandango is a horrible company. I used Groupon tickets to go to a movie on my sister's birthday. It ended up we met friends up at AMC and found out that they changed their seating and now you have to reserve all seats. So some of us had pre-purchased tickets and some did not, but all seats were taken except for the first row, which we said we would take. We couldn't even have to those seats because they couldn't refund us for Groupon and Fandango, so they could recharge us at regular price. I was told by the AMC manager that Fandango would refund my money since we were leaving to go to another theatre, so we could sit together.

I called Fandango right away (in the theatre) and sat on hold for 45 minutes on the way to the other theatre, so I hung up when we had to go in for the show. I called back 3 days later, because I work day and night (2 jobs) and they told me that I called an hour later than I said because they go by Eastern time, so I could not get a refund because it was after the show started.

I was told a supervisor would call me back in 20 minutes because she was on break and I never got a call back.

They can eat my $6.18 and I will never use their service or Groupon (if it has to do with Fandango) ever again.

I work in CS too and I understand that rules are rules, except there are actual loop holes in certain circumstances. They can see I never picked up my tickets and used them. They are thieves. "

"HORRIBLE EXPERIENCE... I purchase 3 tickets to the wrong movie I try to get my money back and it was imposible to do it I call customer service they told me to leave my name and number and they call me one hour and half later and they told me they can’t help me because the movie already started.. and I lost my money
IMPOSSIBLE TO REACH
NOW I READ THE REVIEWS AND I AM NOT THE ONLY OBE WITH THIS PROBLEM
I DONT KNOW HOW THEY ARE IN BUSINESS !!!!! Never again "

"I purchased 2 tickets to a theatre nearby but because of a problem at fandango the could not sent me ticket confirmation right away. Came time to go to the theater, still no ticket. We went anyway, bought tickets at the theater and watched the movie. When we returned home, there was the confirmation on my computer e-mail but too late. Tried to get a refund from fandango and waited 45 minutes to talk to an agent Since the movie had already run, no refund. No more fandango for me, take my chances at the theater. They are just too money hungry!"

"I ordered 4 tickets to see "The Incredibles 2" in 3D! When we found out that it was inappropriate for young children, we decide to get a refund. I mistakingly thought my husband told me to put the entire amount in the Fandango Credit ($56), but he misunderstood me. So, I called the next day to ask of they could refund that exchange credit back to our PayPal because of the misunderstanding, because we hardly ever go to movies. The guy pretty much told us that once it's been placed in the Fandango Credit, that they cannot do a refund. (This was a little confusing to me considering its THEIR credit system, so you would think they would have the ability to refund it..especially of it was done by accident)
So I got a little upset at him, and he said he would send my request up to corporate and that I would hear something back by email within 24 hours. I checked my email about 30 minutes later and already had a response from corporate, DECLINING my request for a refund. I looked at the time stamp of the email that I received, and it was literally timestamped for 10 minutes after I got the call back from Fandango to present my issue. So, that showed me that the guy I talked to on the phone was probably the one who sent me that email claiming to be corporate. My husband is going to call today and speak to them again, since they didnt return my call after I called back following the email response.

Very dishonest company who could care less about customer service and more about taking your money!!"

"I used points earned through my job and the rest I paid with my debit card. The night before I wanted to go to the movies, I purchased the online ticket. On Fandango website, I touched the screen for Friday and went through the process to finalize...it actually set me up for...THURSDAY! I didn't know until it sent me an email asking me how was the movie, well it was Friday and I had not been yet! I called and got a foreign accent, could barely understand, and I was told that because Fandango already paid for the seat and there was nothing that can be done about it! She didn't care that I said I will never use them again, either!"

"I attempted to use a free movie ticket code at Fandango, but you can’t just print out a ticket and bring it to any theater!!!! No, if you don’t have Malco or AMC you’re doomed. At first I thought it was my local theater company’s fault for not having tickets for sale online. After contacting the theater I found out that they have tried multiple times this year to set up an account with Fandango, but no one from Fandango responded or were helpful. So it’s not their fault, but rather Fandango’s. I would highly suggest to the company of Fandango to work on customer service and making sure major cities are represented by AT LEAST one theater before partnering with huge companies like Juicy Juice to provide free movie tickets. Especially if said theaters actually contacted your company and are having to apologize to movie goers all day long for not being able to accept free movie tickets. "

"I purchased two movie tickets using my Fandango gift card and incorrectly enter a wrong email address. I never received the tickets and had to cancel the tickets before the movie show time. I have money sitting against the wrong email account "****@****" which I can't access, this account DOES NOT EXISTS! Most website have you enter your email account in twice to verify but your poorly created site does not, this might help prevent errors in the future. I have an Exchange refund number but there is no place to enter this when trying to purchase movie tickets, again. I have spent so much time JUST to get movie tickets that once my gift card has been used up I WILL NEVER USE FANDANGO AGAIN! Spread the word on their poor website and customer service.
I called there customer service yesterday and the guy said it was only $14.00, like no big deal I lost $14.00 trying to use your service."

"I ordered four tickets online. And the fourth party did not show. So I looked to cancel. So I went into my email to look for the phone number on my receipt, there was no phone number. So I went into website , Still no phone number but a link to a live chat which ended up being over 35 minutes. I had to go into the live before the movie started, And of course I was on the subway so I lost connection. So I went back to the live chat while the movie was going. Still can I get a refund. If the phone number was on my receipt I would’ve been able to access an agent immediately! They lost a customer for ever and I’ll never go back! "

"Bought 7 tickets and had a family emergency (wife is pregnant and we had to go to the doctor) In the middle of this I called and tried to chat with someone to get credit only not even a refund, all I wanted was credit so we can go a different date. The chat was was saturated and same on the phone so the time of the start of the movie went past. I sent an email explaining the situation and they would not credit. Will never buy from fandango anymore. "

"My kids got a gift card for Christmas. We just used it...tickets were more than in our local theater (only .50, but times 5). Then, we went to check out and there is a $1.50 "convenience fee" per ticket! So, for the "convenience" of not being able to buy tickets at the theater but having to go to their website and jump through all of their hoops to purchase for the right movie and time at the right theater and then get the tickets sent to the right device so they can use them to get in, I paid $2.00 more for each ticket. What a scam! I will never use fandango again."