My wife and I are huge movie
buffs. For us watching at least one movie a week is a way of life. Needless to
say that our monthly movie expense is a part of monthly expense budgeting
process. So I am always on the lookout for movie deals. Fandango, a movie
ticket vending site, always has some promo going on and it’s a great way to
save some money. One of their long standing offers is in conjunction with Visa
– getting 20% off on purchasing a $25 gift card. This allows me to buy $25
Fandango gift cards for $20 only and then use that gift card to buy my tickets,
thus saving me $5 (20%), every time I go to watch a movie.
While this is a great way to save
money, a better offer came along from Fandango last week, which is stackable
with the AMC rewards stubs program and nets me 55% saving on movie tickets.
Here’s how anyone can benefit from this offer:
First step is to enroll in the
AMC Stubs Program – This is the most awesomest rewards program out there.
For
$12 an year, you earn points for every dollar you spend at the AMC theaters.
Movies, pop-corn, soda, everything you spend at AMC. For every $100 worth of
spend, you get $10 reward. That $10 can be used for buying movie tickets or for
your popcorn and soda’s. Plus you get free size upgrade on your popcorn and
soda. The best bit- there is no online ticketing fee – which can add up pretty
fast for 4 movies a month. You can track yours through the online account, thus
knowing how far you are from the next reward and also they keep a cool stub
book of all movies you see.
Next up getting tickets for
discount – This is where Fandango comes in. Fandango has a current offer going
on – “+1 Movie Fridays on Fandango”.
Here’s the summary- if you have a
Visa Signature card (who doesn’t ??), you can get one free ticket every Friday,
for tickets purchased on Friday for a show that Friday itself. Simple enough!! That’s
a 50% discount right there. They do limit it to 1 free ticket for one Visa
Signature card every 30 days. So if you are like me, with multiple Visa
Signature card in your arsenal, you can get one free ticket every Friday.
Now, on to making it slightly
better – I use the Fandango offer to buy tickets for AMC theaters only. 2
tickets (worth $20), after discount cost me $10. But AMC treats it as 2 tickets
purchased and hence gives me credit for $20. Five movies later, I hit the $100
mark and get $10 rewards from AMC.
So for a net spend of $50 only, I
get to watch movies worth $110. That’s an awesome 55% discount on AMC movie
tickets.
Are you taking advantage of this
offer? Do you have a way to make it better?
