| - I never tried. Try it. It's hard due to fragmentation. - Chinese wife buys movie tickets online all the time, chooses seat if the theater has reserved seating. Which app or site will let me buy a cinema ticket and choose a seat, on a mobile phone.
- credit cards in America put fraud burden on merchants. This is very different from china (ICBC grumble) and fraudsters in the states will target Chinese using credit cards in the states accordingly. In theory, yes, it's on the merchant. In practice, it's a whole lot of hassle if your mag stripe card gets skimmed. - online, on autopay. Autopay isn't online. Unless you mean your computer or phone has to be on, or the autopay doesn't work. - iPhone has had that feature for forever. Doesn't work if even a single member of the group uses Android (or Windows or BB), which is pretty likely in a group of more than 4 people. |
I've never needed to give any money.
> Which app or site will let me buy a cinema ticket and choose a seat, on a mobile phone.
There are literally tons of apps for this. It isn't hard at all. Heck, just use fandango and be done with it, if you want.
> - credit cards in America put fraud burden on merchants. This is very different from china (ICBC grumble) and fraudsters in the states will target Chinese using credit cards in the states accordingly.
> In theory, yes, it's on the merchant. In practice, it's a whole lot of hassle if your mag stripe card gets skimmed.
Fuck ICBC. Chinese restaurants in Bellevue would pray on Microsoft China employees just because they knew they could scam their credit cards while, when reported to ICBC, would just say "prove you didn't make those charges!" Whereas if it was a non-Chinese AmEx, it wouldn't be a problem at all. Just fuck ICBC, and WePay is a Chinese solution to a Chinese problem.
> Autopay isn't online. Unless you mean your computer or phone has to be on, or the autopay doesn't work.
My gas bill, electric bill, and water bill were just paid a week ago, I didn't have to do anything. EVERY utility has an online presence, and they all support autopay. My rent is on autopay also, as is my car loan, all setup online, the only bills I pay manually are my credit card ones and whatever I get from the hospital, again, paid all online.
> Doesn't work if even a single member of the group uses Android (or Windows or BB), which is pretty likely in a group of more than 4 people.
There are plenty of location services if you don't want to use what is built into iPhone. Note that the iPhone map service works even in China, as my wife had me on it a lot when we lived in Beijing.