{"id":158,"date":"2011-05-21T23:36:35","date_gmt":"2011-05-22T04:36:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kylegoleno.com\/?p=158"},"modified":"2011-05-21T23:36:35","modified_gmt":"2011-05-22T04:36:35","slug":"fandango-why-are-they-the-only-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kylegoleno.com\/2011\/05\/fandango-why-are-they-the-only-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Fandango, Why are they the only one?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I never purchase tickets via fandango, but always use the fandango iPhone app to check for the latest showtimes.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder why aren&#8217;t there other competitors in this space?  It seems to me that if I were a movie theater I would want to build my own web page with showtimes, and a way to purchase tickets ahead of time.  I&#8217;d also build a mobile app for people to check times and purchase tickets.  Why outsource this to another vendor?  If I were the theater company I wouldn&#8217;t even charge an additional fee for purchasing online.  If anything this would save money, the line would be shorter, and I would only need one sales person at the ticket counter instead of two or three.  Employees are expensive.<\/p>\n<p>Ok, so it is an outsourced service.  Why is there only one company providing this service?  Why are their fees so high?  Does Fandango have some exclusive contract with every movie theater company?<\/p>\n<p>Why couldn&#8217;t another third party compete in this space, have lower fees, and even a more streamlined process for admittance into the theater once you arrive (? Barcode scan your phone like they do at the airport).<\/p>\n<p>Hmmm<\/p>\n<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-158\" data-postid=\"158\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-158 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I never purchase tickets via fandango, but always use the fandango iPhone app to check for the latest showtimes. I wonder why aren&#8217;t there other competitors in this space? It seems to me that if I were a movie theater I would want to build my own web page with showtimes, and a way to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[16],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kylegoleno.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kylegoleno.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kylegoleno.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kylegoleno.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kylegoleno.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kylegoleno.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kylegoleno.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kylegoleno.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kylegoleno.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}