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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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California
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I asked for a refund on Feb 10 2017 and was told they credited my account on Feb 11th. To this date my bank is telling me it is still pending after 20 days. They have no problem taking your money but good luck getting a refund. Horrible service

Date of experience: March 4, 2017
California
1 review
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Randy from Fandango is a horrible customer service representative. Fandango policies and and the organization as a whole is horrible and should be shut down.

Date of experience: March 4, 2017
Florida
1 review
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I $#*!ing hate Fandango. I don't know where the $#*! they get off charging an 11% fee when they are the WORST. I only used them because I received a gift card for Christmas but it was such a $#*!ing hassle trying to order my tickets I almost the threw the $25 in the trash. The app doesn't even work. They kept saying the movie was sold out but then still showing that movie time as available. When I finally found a showtime that worked, it was a $#*!ing nightmare just trying to check out. Just buy your tickets at the theater it takes like 2 seconds.

Date of experience: March 4, 2017
Illinois
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Never again!
March 1, 2017

Very dissatisfied. It has the link to click to change ticket time since I accidentally hit the wrong day. The problem is it wouldn't allow me to change it. I was on hold for customer service online for 36 minutes. Then I called and was on hold for 48 minutes only to be told that they can't help me because my movie had just started though I was on hold for over an hour. So I'm getting charged for the movie even though I won't be able to see it. I'm really upset and I know based off this experience I would not recommend fandango to anyone. But we will see it 3 to 5 business days after corporate contacts me.

Date of experience: March 1, 2017
Florida
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Over an hour on hold. Turned an online typo into a 3-5 day corporate resolution.
Use application with caution!

Date of experience: March 1, 2017
Florida
1 review
0 helpful votes
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NO TO FANDANGO!"
February 26, 2017

I received $45.00 Gift Card for FANDANGO... unfortunately my cousin did not know you can only purchase on line and a"service fee" is charged each time you use the gift cards. So sad that this company does this to customers. The balance left is $4.42 and sadly FANDANGO counts on this!... We won't use it because after they charge a "service fee" there will be less than $2.00 so all the monies will go to FANDANGO... will NEVER purchase anything from this company and will tell everyone not to use them!

Date of experience: February 26, 2017
California
1 review
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Purchased three tickets with gift card and debit card and boyfriend got sick and couldn't go. Called Fandango and was told there was nothing they could do. BS. There is something I can do. Not purchase any more tickets from them!

Date of experience: February 24, 2017
Georgia
1 review
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RIPPED OFF!
February 23, 2017

Not only could you not see the convenience fee charges on your phone when you try to buy the tickets, Fandango charged me a dollar more per ticket than the movie theater. On 4 tickets, they charged me over $12 for them to process this order. Then after it was charged and the fees showed up, I called them and they pretty much said," Too bad, we aren't refunding the convenience fee, that's how we make our money." They even agreed you couldn't see the fee on the cell phones and that you had to scroll around to get it to show up. Never again Fandango.

Date of experience: February 23, 2017
Utah
1 review
0 helpful votes
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What a Sham!
February 20, 2017

Received a $50 gift card at Xmas. Went to use it and found none of the theaters in my city accept the tickets. Looks like I have to drive 30 miles to find a theater that accepts Fandango. Then I looked at the fees they charge. OMG! I will be telling everyone no to buy a gift card from Fandango.

Date of experience: February 20, 2017
California
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Racket
February 19, 2017

Fandango sucks. Their system indicated my transaction timed out so I started over then got confirmation of double purchase. Went to chat and they said I needed to open a VIP account to get a refund. Called customer abc and got same story. Opened an account and only got refund for ticket price. It was their system mistake and I should have received full refund. Would never use again. Worst customer service on internet.

Date of experience: February 19, 2017
Florida
1 review
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Sucks. Fees are rediculous. The only reason we used was because we had a gift card. The fees ate up a quarter of the gift card. We have already told people not to give this as a gift. AVOID!

Date of experience: February 19, 2017
Missouri
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Get your tickets at the theater and stop supporting this awful company and ripoff service. The fees, lack of customer service and BS involved with using Fandango are stupid; however, the only way to fix that is to stop using them! Uninstall the app, forget about it

Date of experience: February 19, 2017
Pennsylvania
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Avoid fandango at all costs. Not only are you given tickets to a theatre you have no intention of going to, but when you call customer service you are subject to going around in circles with no resolution to your issue. They are quick to issue an exchange that gets eaten up with their costs in an attempt to use YOUR money up on movie tickets as either it is their resistance it issue a cr dot to your original form of payment or a computer system that is so inadequate it is incapable of giving you your money back. Lesson learned -- NEVER AGAIN... i will NEVER AGAIN utilize them

Date of experience: February 19, 2017
California
4 reviews
2 helpful votes
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Somehow Fandango moved into the streaming business attached to Roku. Then they started loading my email with promos and then manipulated me into giving them my Credit card info where the service I had on Roku already had it (I had never used it being content with Amazon, Netflix and a couple of other subscription services).

The service offered is a rental fee for a particular title like Amazon offers but now I find that they are trying to leverage me into some other thing called "Ultraviolet." I was made very suspicious when they seemed to be vague as to how this differed from the original and when they neglected to send a promised code to my email.

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I had trouble getting to THIS site and staying here... First I picked SiteJabber from what I thought was a search result and went to Fandango then when I CITED SITEJABBER FROM MY BROUSER a box appeared asking for a question or a review and I began this and it took me to Fandango.

Date of experience: February 18, 2017
Utah
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Purchased tickets for a movie 2 days in advance, went to the theater the day of and the ticket dates were wrong. They were for 2 days earlier. Called customer service, was on hold for 45 minutes only to be told there is nothing they can do because it's passed my showtime. I will never go through them again. They screwed me out of my money and all I wanted was for them to move it to another day. I will never go through this company again. They are horrible! I hope they go out of business soon!

Date of experience: February 14, 2017
California
3 reviews
2 helpful votes
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Avoid at all costs
February 12, 2017

$#*! site,, over priced fee of $2:70. To process on tickets,,, too many steps to redeem a gift card,, print out a ticket and then take it to a kiosk,, to get a Real ticket,,,, what a F in joke,,,, please go out of business!

Date of experience: February 12, 2017
Florida
1 review
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Promo code scam
February 11, 2017

I have received promo codes for a free movie through fandango. For months I have tried to use the promo codes and it always gives me an error. I've called customer service multiple times and they say it should work fine but it never does. They will say things like, we were having problems with out system, clear out your cookies, use a different browser. None of these work... however, if I want to pay with my credit card it goes through. It's only when I use promo codes. Total scam!

Date of experience: February 11, 2017
Minnesota
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Never
February 11, 2017

I will never buy my tickets from your website again.
Because your policy is very poor.
Couple weeks ago we had to return our tickets because we had some family emergency but you guys didn't return it. Not helpful at all. Policy makes a big difference in business.

Date of experience: February 11, 2017
Florida
1 review
0 helpful votes
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It's all the title of the review. Movies tend to change quality while you are watching them - switching from HD to blurry. Customer service is poor - I had to wait for 30 minutes before my call was answered, and then they weren't able to help me. Also, they sneakily removed a credit from my account for $50, without warning me.

Date of experience: February 10, 2017
Oklahoma
1 review
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Where are my tickets? Site timed out, confirmation email was sent, ticket link doesn't work, cannot get a hold of any customer service agent, be waiting on the online chat for over an hour, cannot get refunds on tickets purchased with a promo code... This is ridiculous and I will never buy a ticket from this joke of a company again.

Date of experience: February 10, 2017