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Pennsylvania
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Poor customer care
June 19, 2023

My daughter broke her finger by slamming it in the car door while going into the movie. We had ten minutes until movie time. We rushed our daughter to the ER instead of calling fandango of course. While in the ER, I called customer service and they said that no refund or credit could be issued since it was passed the movie start time. Ridiculous….I'll never use this service again and will do my best to ensure nobody else does.

Date of experience: June 19, 2023
California
1 review
1 helpful vote
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My son bought tickets for himself and his friends. $48. The tickets never got to him. Fandango refused to refund the money. When I called the person said they did not have a supervisor. This is a horrible company. I would strongly recommend buying tickets through the theater site. That's what we do now.

Date of experience: September 29, 2022
Arkansas
1 review
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My niece purchased 5 tickets and was charged $1.25 each. The ticket office was closed because they were short staffed per the Theater Manager. She had to stand in the concession stand line and wait behind those purchasing tickets, popcorn, soda, candy. She was denied her request for a refund of $6.25 from Fandango for the inconvenience. They don't care about customer service

Date of experience: November 20, 2013
Ohio
2 reviews
2 helpful votes
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Awful
January 13, 2019

We supposedly had a "free" movie code to try fandango. Put in our code... did not work. Tried 3 different times... nothing. Tried calling customer support, waited on phone over 10 mins... nothing! What a waste of time

Date of experience: January 12, 2019
Florida
1 review
3 helpful votes
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Received this as a gift, would never purchase. Gift card code does not work, contacted support almost a month ago and still have an unresolved issue. All they tell me to do is wait and transfer me around.

Date of experience: January 2, 2018
Colorado
1 review
1 helpful vote
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I bought tickets on fandango.com, ended up needing to change the movie time and went to request a refund on the website, it kept telling me there was an error and I cant refund my tickets. I called fandango and got put on hold for over 3 hours, requested a call back 3 different times and was number 77 to chat with an online agent that took hours. They ended up calling me at midnight. Unbelievable. I will never use fandango again, and you bet I will spread the word to everyone I know. Fandango figure your crap out. Total scam

Date of experience: February 19, 2018
Rhode Island
1 review
3 helpful votes
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For Seniors a movie is a treat. My wife and I decided to take our "young" 50+ year old friends to a movie. On the way going there one of our friends got sick, so we turned around and went home. Turns out you have to tell them in advance you won't be there. $45 to see nothing and no refund, no exchange. They even cut me off on live chat!

Date of experience: May 4, 2015
Texas
1 review
4 helpful votes
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Will NEVER use their services again! Site chose my closest theater, turned out to be a theater an hour away! No option to review order, got stuck with tickets too far away to use. Customer service was a joke. Waited on hold 42 minutes, and they could care less what I had to say. Asked for a manager who didn't listen to me at all just interrupted and said they would not issue refund within 2 hours of movie. I would have been very happy to have an exchange for a closer theater. There was no customer service, no care to try to work with customers so that they might continue to use their company, they couldnt be bothered to even listen to me explain my problem with the site. Very disappointed and I hope others avoid making the same mistake I have made, the mistake of ever using Fandango!

Date of experience: December 27, 2015
New York
1 review
2 helpful votes
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I have used the Visa Signature 20% offer which saves a little bit of money. I have used the Fandango website more than a dozen times and I have never once had an uneventful transaction. The website either states that an unknown error has occurred or something else. Customer service is responsive but their website is really totally absolutely positively awful. I'd stay clear of it except to check movie times.

Date of experience: May 24, 2014
Florida
1 review
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Promo code scam
February 12, 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
Tennessee
1 review
2 helpful votes
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No refund for cancelled movie
January 7, 2023

We had booked tickets through Fandango for Avatar at our local Imax but when we arrived at the theater they had cancelled all show that day due to problems with equipment. The manager advised that all tickets pre-purchased had been refunded. After a couple of days there was no credit showing from Fandango so i contacted customer services. After 80 minutes waiting on a chat I was told that no refund was coming and that a supervisor would have to contact the theater. Five days later we still have no refund so I was left with no option but to dispute the charges with my CC company.

Date of experience: January 7, 2023
Illinois
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Just went through a problem with Fandango. A few months ago, someone hacked into my Fandango account and bought tickets to a movie in a town hours away from my home. I contacted them afterwards, and I got a refund, but subsequently on several occasions when I tried to buy tickets, I kept getting an "internal error", and was unable to complete the purchases. When I contacted customer service, they eventually told me because I contested the hacked charge, I was no longer wanted as a customer. Nice! After many years of using the service, get shown the door, even though I changed my password and deleted my payment information from the site so that could never possibly happen again. Stay away - no need to be a customer of a company that threats their customers like criminals.

Date of experience: December 18, 2019
Washington
2 reviews
4 helpful votes
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I received a gift card and tried to purchase a movie online on my laptop. The giftcard kept reading invalid. I called and had horrible wait times and never got through. I decided to try it on my cell phone with the mobile app... it went right through. Don't know why/how... but for those who didn't try that. Try it and see if it works. Convenience fee, but NO convenience... esp if I still have to wait in the same line to show confirmation...#foolishness. Only beneficial if it's a movie that will be sold out because it guarantees your seat.

Date of experience: February 28, 2015
New Jersey
1 review
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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
California
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Terrible Website and App
September 7, 2018

Fandango has a terrible website and app. Hardly ever connects and always has an error. On top of that, when it's "working", it's running horribly slow. I really wish it would work to make things easier, but it just doesn't. Fandango is a total let down.

Date of experience: September 6, 2018
Missouri
1 review
3 helpful votes
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Do not purchase gift cards or tickets through/for fandango. It is an utter waste of hard earned money. I purchased gift cards for family and the theatre will not accept them directly, so you have to order them online and will be charged a convenience fee.

Date of experience: June 22, 2015
Florida
1 review
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Their app switches dates and times on you when you think you are getting the movie you want to see. They deny every claim and keep your money. Refuse to even exchange for another showing. Worst company I have ever dealt with.

Date of experience: April 4, 2019
California
1 review
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I'll make sure I never buy tickets through Fandango again. I've never dealt with a more dishonest and untrustworthy business. When you call to try and replace your tickets they put you on a 2 HOUR hold and then proceed to tell you why they can't give you a refund aka they don't care about customer service and are all about profit. Once they've got you to buy something their work is done. Scammers, con-artists, schemers I'll take my business to atom tickets who seem more upfront and honest then these snakes

Date of experience: June 9, 2019
North Carolina
1 review
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A few years ago Fandango seemed to work well. The last several times using it was frustrating and useless. Spent nearly an hour trying to buy 2 movie tickets. Never succeeded. Would not recognize seats reserved. Continued to get error message which does not identify the specific error. Asked for valid Loyalty Number, which it showed in box. I entered it anyway. Got same error message. Checked account info for Loyalty number. The correct one showed in box, however, it continued to ask for a valid number. Q&A does not answer questions. Repeated process several times with same results. Will no longer use this method of purchasing tickets. Easier to go to box office.

Date of experience: May 5, 2019
Virginia
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Refused refund
December 29, 2018

Would never use them again.
Corporate thieves.
Emailed a refund. No call back.
Called and waited over an hour.
Fine print claims after a show has started a refund can not be granted. But if you can not reach someone, how can your claim be processed before the show.

This is done by design.
$#*! them.

Date of experience: December 28, 2018

Overview

Fandango has a rating of 1.1 stars from 1,232 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers dissatisfied with Fandango most frequently mention customer service, gift card and convenience fee. Fandango ranks 325th among Movie sites.

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value
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quality
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