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Fandango Reviews Summary

The company has garnered significant negative feedback, primarily centered around its customer service and refund policies. Customers frequently report difficulties in obtaining refunds or resolving issues, often facing long wait times and unhelpful automated responses. Complaints highlight misleading ticket information and website glitches that lead to erroneous purchases, further exacerbating customer frustration. While some customers express disappointment with the service, there are few mentions of positive experiences, indicating a general sentiment of dissatisfaction. Overall, the company appears to struggle with effective customer support and transparency, leading many to seek alternatives for their movie ticket purchases.

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Florida
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Never works
May 27, 2021

Fandango has never worked for us. We have rented and purchased several movies off of the site and there is always a connection issue. We do not have problems with any other sites except for fandango. We have invited people over to purchase a movie and it just spins over and over. We will no longer waste our time or money trying to purchase any movies off of this website. Very disappointed because they have good choices but it doesn't matter because you can't watch it anyways.

Date of experience: May 27, 2021
New York
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Took my money!
May 27, 2021

I'd give them a 0 star if I could. I tried purchasing tickets and when I used my Apple Pay, it said error seats have been taken already. So I re chose a different seat and bought the tickets. Something came up and I couldn't go to the movie theaters so I refunded the one ticket that I thought I bought which they gave me the refund for. The day after, I saw in my statements that they have charged me twice for different seats. So I called them and told them that their website said error so I didn't think I'd have purchased it. The worker said she'd have to talk to corporate because the movie has already played. Then I asked her if Fandango has a way to check the I even activated the tickets and they said they can check that. So the next day, I receive a email saying they can't issue refund because it's past the movie day and I've replied to them saying they can literally check that I never made it to the movie theater and never activated my ticket. It's been a week now and I haven't gotten a reply back. I've never been so upset at a company before.

Date of experience: May 27, 2021
Texas
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Refund
April 25, 2021

It hasn't even been a whole 24 hours and I can't get a refund for a movie I never saw because the theater was closed. Make that make sense.

Date of experience: April 25, 2021
Colorado
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Ripped off
March 3, 2021

I got on line to buy movie tickets yesterday after filling out the info and entering my credit card number the system came back and said the purchase didn't go thru. I went to the theater and bought tickets. This morning I got on line and found that Fandango had charged my account. When I called for a refund they said no. These people are crooks with a flawed system. Don't use them.

Date of experience: March 3, 2021
Nevada
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Ripoff gift card
February 16, 2021

Wtf is the point of buying a gift card the charges a convenience fee? The site is anything but convenient to use. I bought a 25 dollar git card and have to pay $9 in convenience fees to use it?! Honestly a class action lawsuit should be brought against this company.

Date of experience: February 16, 2021
Illinois
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Very slow
February 15, 2021

Fandango & fandango now apps never work. It's non stop loading while watching a movie or show. Would not recommend renting a movie or show from them. You will waste your time waiting for it to load all throughout the movie/or show.

Date of experience: February 15, 2021
Ohio
1 review
1 helpful vote
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HATE
February 4, 2021

If I could give them no stars, I would. Every single time I get one of these Fandango gift cards as a gift (read: HEADACHE) it becomes the biggest pain. Not user friendly, terrible customer service that has no care or intent of actually helping you. I have received Fandango gift cards on 3 occasions and run into an issue with them EVERY SINGLE TIME. Save yourself the headache and don't bother. And DON'T give these gift cards as gifts - no one wants that. Ridiculous.

Date of experience: February 4, 2021
New York
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Convenience fee
January 25, 2021

This website is absolutely pointless. I am not sure how they are still around but their non refundable convenience fee is laughable. I will never be using this service again and will spread the word of its absolutely ridiculous policies. Do better.

Date of experience: January 25, 2021
New Jersey
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I have been trying for the past 2 months to convert a couple of Fandango gift cards to fandango Now. As a result of Covid, i am not comfortable going to a theatre. I have tried on numerous time to have it corrected, but everytime they tell me it will be assigned to the department that perform that function and nothing happens. I keep following up and i received a response that it is being forward to the correct department. At this point its wasted money, as no one is resolving. Such a simple task assigning a code so the cards can be used on fandango now...

Date of experience: January 22, 2021
Wisconsin
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Gift cards= $#*!
January 16, 2021

Just scratched off a gift card and it says invalid. Bull$#*!. Waste of money. Just go to the movie.!

Date of experience: January 16, 2021
Tennessee
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Terrible Customer Service
December 18, 2020

If I were able to give 0 stars I would. I requested a refund due to no sound on a rental movie. The relresentative refused unless I would unplug my tv and omug it back in. Once I did and the movie still did not work, he said he would have to email corporate and they would determine if I rated a review. DO NOT WASTE YOUR MONEY OR TIME!

Date of experience: December 18, 2020
Florida
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Worst service ever!
December 15, 2020

You are stealing your customers taking advantage of the fact that the movie theaters were closed during the pandemic. How is it possible that if I have a $ 100 gift card and I am going to spend $ 37 on tickets, you are going to charge a $ 29 convenience fee? That's unsane! I did not use my gift card! Because i need a solution and a proper answer from your customer service. I have been a Fandango customer for years and this has never happened before with gift cards. Now you want to take advantage of your customers to get your business back. Don't you think it's better to keep happy your usual clients and be thankful that we have started to reactivate your business by going to the movie theaters? This is how we all reactivate the economy after pandemic, not taking advantage of your customers. I feel very unhappy and very dissapointed with Fandango and the way you are taking advantage of the customers. I will post my message in all your social media, google, etc. People in the market needs to know the new procedures of Fandango. They never should buy any gift card from you.

Date of experience: December 15, 2020
New York
1 review
12 helpful votes
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Customer service
September 26, 2020

Horrendous manipulation of the truth coming from the CS rep. Brutish lack of consideration and foresight from the company. No refund given on a common mishap; I did not change reservation on time, mistakenly believing I had done so. Fandango lost an opportunity to have a movie patron and his large family as a continued client.

Date of experience: September 26, 2020
North Carolina
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I
September 5, 2020

Keep saying that somethings wrong about keep saying a number to like fix it but it's still it's not fixing it

Date of experience: September 5, 2020
Virginia
1 review
11 helpful votes
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Trash
May 2, 2020

We have fandango now on our smart tv and I bought a season of an mtv show. To say that the function of this app is trash is an understatement. We have to exit the app completely to watch the next episode because it freezes and then errors out then have to relaunch the app go through the search and type in the entire title of the show because even though I've searched it at least 15 times it's not in a recent search or anything! Will never purchase anything else for them.

Date of experience: May 2, 2020
Minnesota
1 review
3 helpful votes
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ABSOLUTELY HORRIBLE!
April 10, 2020

I bought tickets to a movie online with pay pal for a movie that was supposed to play in May. Due to Covid 19, they cancelled the movie. I received an email saying I received the refund, but when I went into pay pal, it had been cancelled by them! I am now fighting with them to receive my refund! I will NEVER do business with this place again! They lied and said it had been returned, pay pal told me they cancelled it! Do yourself a favor, dont use them!

Date of experience: April 10, 2020
Wisconsin
1 review
24 helpful votes
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Apparently the attached image purchase went through. But I didn't realize and bought the tickets in-person assuming it didn't go through like the error label infers. I tried to get a refund and had to go from waiting in the chat queue for over half an hour to having to submit a complaint in another part of the website to even find the status of the refund request. Multiple follow up emails and still had no response for a month. Eventually was able to talk to a person that seemed understanding and hand me submit the bank statements proving the purchase and then denied the refund with no explanation. Highly unprofessional and was a super frustrating and time consuming process to go through. Be wary

Date of experience: March 31, 2020
Arizona
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Rented a movie for 19.99 for 48 hours and wasn't available after 24 hours. Customer service kept me on hold for 20 mins and finally said they couldn't help me and was rude! GREAT CUSTOMER SERVICE

Date of experience: March 26, 2020
Texas
1 review
16 helpful votes
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When I got to the theater I was told they did not see my reservation. We bought tickets for bad seats up front. When I got home I saw that I had been charged for two seats that were later also sold to someone else. They refuse to refund me and I know that if someone would just look up ticket sales from that night they would see the tickets were double sold. TERRIBLE CUSTOMER SERVICE!

Date of experience: March 15, 2020
New York
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Unhelpful
March 7, 2020

Accidentally bought a ticket for the incorrect day and used my $5 reward on that purchase. Called customer service to switch the day and they refused to reapply the $5 reward claiming it was non refundable. I would understand if I were not going to buy another ticket but I was literally purchasing a ticket for the exact same movie at the same time just for the following day. Really bad customer service, I don't plan on using fandango after this. What's the point of a reward system if you can't even use the reward.

Date of experience: March 7, 2020