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Is moviepass able to restrict who charges to the card? When I read about how their preloaded charge card system works, it made me wonder if someone with a square reader could just create a business with the word theaters in their name and charge the value of the ticket while in the theater lobby.



To get the funds loaded on the prepaid debit card you must check in to the movie on your phone, with GPS turned on, and within 100 feet of the theater, and purchase the ticket within 30 minutes of check-in.

And you're restricted from using one account on multiple phones.


You can take a square reader anywhere. So nothing you said would keep me from stopping by the theater each day on the way home from work.


Nothing an emulator on some server can't solve.


Ya, or just take your square reader with you to the theater lobby.


Thats why they're requiring ticket stub photos now. I imagine they also have some auditing tricks to find people using the card at non approved locations based on transaction history.




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