SUBREDDIT RULES AND SCAMMER WARNING (PLEASE READ)
Hello--
This is an online community for people trying to buy / sell / trade tickets for American Cinematheque screenings in LA as well as various other screenings around town (New Beverly, Vista, Film Festivals, etc). As such, there are some rules to lay out to help make this process as easy and safe as possible.
The mods can only do so much to prevent scammers. It is ultimately down to the user to decide if they are being scammed. They need to make the decision to send money on their own. If you want to be 100% safe, send money to the seller via PAYPAL GOODS & SERVICES ONLY. This is a guaranteed money back system if you get scammed. All other payments (Venmo, Zelle, gift card exchanges) are not safe. If you send money via any app other than Paypal Goods & Services, you are running the risk yourself. Additionally, please familiarize yourself with the format of how AC tickets look. Scammers will often try to send photoshopped tickets from other platforms to make them look like AC tickets. If you are familiar with the format, this will help prevent scams. If you are scammed, please post the user's name in the comments of this thread and we will ban them
We will not allow for free tickets to be re-sold publicly on this sub. Anyone who makes a post to sell free tickets (ex: selling a ticket to a free members only screening of an advanced release for $25) will be banned. If someone offers money to the seller over DM, we have no control over that. But we will not allow for open selling of free screening tickets.
We will not allow for tickets to be sold for more money than what was purchased. This is a fair community in which we hope people will be just in selling for what they purchased if they can no longer make a screening. If we see posts where someone is selling for a higher price (ex: Selling a ticket to the Timothee Chalamet screenings for 3x what they purchased) you will be banned. If the seller asks for a few dollars to be added to cover the Paypal Goods & Services fee, that is acceptable.
If you make a successful exchange, please post a comment in the Successful Exchange Thread which is pinned to the top of the subreddit with the person who sold you tickets so we can give them flair acknowledging them as an approved seller/buyer.
Lastly... do NOT buy from Ferngully01. They are a scammer that uses a shadow account to monitor subs and then message from their main account. We have banned them but they still use their account to message. You have been warned.
Thank you.