Re cineworld : IS THIS LEGAL

How many times does THIS have to be said; READ MY POSTS!!!

That's it. Last line of the first paragraph. Managed it now? Well done! Want to apologise for flying off the handle at me, seeing as I'd already made EXACTLY that point?

This is why I stopped debating with you. You don't bother reading the posts; you just fly off the handle at anything that resembles a disagreement with your position (and that post didn't even disagree with your position - you just seem to want to prove me wrong, whatever the cost!)
 
I don't go to CineWorld as we only have an odeon. I go there most weeks and usually buy a drink and popcorn. However when myself and my friend are seeing 2 films in a week we sometimes smuggle in a drink and some food not to go bankrupt.

Thankfully they never check bags and would be deeply offended if they did in front of people. Also I would be angry that after all the money I spend there, they would show me up for the occasional transgression. But they don't, so Odeon are great and they keep getting my money.
 
OP - you had the ability to say "No, you are not searching my bag." At which point they would have been able to say "Then you are not coming into this cinema." And you would have got your money back for your ticket, gone on your merry way, and this issue would not have arisen.

The cinema did not hustle you away into a tiny bamboo cell, strip you naked and beat you with thistles while firing a water cannon at you. They told you that they needed to search your bag, and presumably, when you had the chance to say "Okay then, here it is" or "No chance, stuff your movie" you took the former option.

I'm still struggling to understand why you think any lawyer can help you here. You may have found it embarrassing (it can be embarrassing being groped as you go into a concert hall or a football stadium, especially if you've got a hard-on) but you allowed them to do it when you had the chance to say no. And you were caught out - you were trying to take a drink purchased elsewhere into the cinema, when there were signs telling you that you couldn't do this. Maybe Cineworld should be asking if there is a lawyer in the house, seeing as you were blatantly flouting the rules.

All this waffle about "Well, they've never done it before" doesn't wash. Who says they have to have done it before? And how do you know they haven't done it before? Do you actually live in the cinema, and spend your whole life watching each and every staff member to make sure that they've never done it before? And, how do you know that they didn't recognise you from the last time you went in and blatantly drank your own drink, even though that wasn't allowed? How do you know that you're not a marked man, and you will be searched everytime you go anywhere from now on, cos Cineworld have posted your face up and down the country? Cos you're the one who's broke the rules! :p
 
We go to the cinema at Bluewater at least once a fortnight and I have sat next to a numpty recording the film on his mobile phone. Although in all honesty he looked like the sort of geek that just liked to have personal recordings rather than a pirate.

Because the cinema is inside a shopping centre we frequently take loaRAB of bags of shopping into the cinema including food. We have also taken Starbucks coffee and homemade snacks without being stopped.

Having said all that we usually pay for the Gallery tickets which give you free snacks and hot drinks and serve alcohol for drinking in the cinema - yes it was me clanging a bottle of wine in the ice-bucket on Sunday afternoon :D
 
no not at all. A football enviroment has had the rules enforced for years the cinemas have had such rules but never enforced them until now. Til someone with a pea brain sat down and thought about what they may be losing.

And as for self pity I think not look all over the net people really have a lot to complain about cineworld not just over a a bag search. From the service, to their unhappy staff to unhappy customers as well.
 
Yeah, that's what we used to do when I worked there. Although, I find that it always tastes really dry when it's been sat in the bags for ages. :(
 
I might be wrong but don't cinemas charge vast fortunes for food and drink because 90% of all ticket sales goes back to the film studios to recover production costs. So there main area of profit comes from suppling refreshments. Hence the high prices. They could be even tighter bag checks after christmas day with all the kiRAB bringing half their selection boxes with them instead of buying from the counter.
 
This is correct. The whole thing is a vicious circle. Cinema's charge ridiculous prices for food because that is where the money is made, people in turn bring their own food in because they don't want to pay these prices and once again the prices go up to accomodate this fact!
 
I can't stop laughing at how ridiculous this thread is!!!! OP you chose to visit a cinema which has a policy of no outside food or drinks, you took a bottle of water which was confiscated with your bag till the end of the movie. You could have decided not to go in.

Did I miss something?

No wonder we are becoming a 'nation of fatties' when people can't do without food for 2 hours.

Try going to your local restaurant and taking your own food and drink then keep shouting for a solicitor to come to your aid!!!!

Wish my own problems were so trivial
 
Well, maybe it's time to put them out of business then!

The general attitude from staff, the mankyness of the places, and the lack of manners from people watching films (with the mobiles, etc!) .... maybe Cinema's will become a thing of the past!
 
Your post makes no sense. You said that
Therefore, you are saying that a customer agrees to the terms and conditions, simply because they have purchased a ticket. You then change your mind half way through the post. :confused: You need to read your posts before clicking "submit reply."
 
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