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CMV: Movie theaters should offer discounts for front row seats.

I went to see the new Star Wars film with a group of my friends last weekend. The theater was completely full, except for the front three rows, which were almost completely empty. When we went to find our seats (this was assigned seating), we discovered that someone else had taken our seats already. We showed them our seat numbers and they vacated. Since there was no where else to sit, they had no choice but to go to the front rows to get seats (which, as it turned out, were the seats they had actually been assigned to).

The above scenario (where I've had to kick people out of my assigned seats, and they have had to go to their actual assigned seats in the front row) has happened to me both of the last two times I've gone to a theater. While I understand why people don't want front row seats, it's still awkward and frustrating for me, the guest, to have to be the police officer in that situation.

It's quite obvious that no one likes the front row seats of a movie theater, and people will try to get out of them if they can. Despite it being opening weekend for Star Wars, the biggest movie on offer at the moment, almost no one had bought tickets for the front row, and the three people that did tried to get out of them.

**For theaters that have assigned seating**, and where all (or close to all) of the non-front-row seats have been filled, theaters should offer discounts for front row seats. This would have at least two benefits.

**1)** Patrons who get stuck with crappy front row seats won't feel totally ripped off since they're getting a discount.

**2)** Patrons who get stuck with crappy front row seats will have less incentive to take better seats from other people since they are being compensated for their suffering by getting a discount. This helps avoid conflict between guests having to kick each other out of assigned seating.

**Edit:** This is for theaters that use assigned seating. This does not apply if theater is open seating.
gpt
> **2)** Patrons who get stuck with crappy front row seats will have less incentive to take better seats from other people since they are being compensated for their suffering by getting a discount. This helps avoid conflict between guests having to kick each other out of assigned seating.

Why wouldn't they just take the discounted front row seats and still try to screw someone else out of better, premium-priced seats?