This is interesting, I guess they're closing the current loophole where they can't actually determine which movie you're seeing from the debit charge. Currently, if you get blocked from seeing a movie that you've already seen, just pick another one and "check in" and the money gets loaded and just buy the ticket for whatever movie you actually want to see. Adding the receipt verification makes this much harder to pull off.
Couldn't someone just buy a ticket for another movie at the same time? It's not like the cineplex is going to suspect you're doing anything wrong if you walk up, get your ticket torn, and then walk into the wrong theater. They got paid either way, and if you leave after just watching the one movie, they're no worse off. Not that I'm suggesting doing this, but it seems like a trivial workaround.
I considered that also. But if you’re not going at busy times (which I understand is the case for many movie pass customers, since you can’t reserve in advance conveniently), then seating and capacity wouldn’t be as much of an issue.
Can this still be done? I can check-in to whatever random movie, but walk up to the counter and ask to pay for a ticket to something else? I haven't received any emails asking for my receipt to be photographed. Unless they have some way of tracking the movie title on a debit charge (which my own Visa debit card doesn't even do) then you can just load a ticket for whatever movie and then request tickets from the actual employee to the movie you want to re-watch.
