GhanaCelebrities.Com has received several complaints from angry Ghanaian movie enthusiasts whose weekend has been completely tumbled-down by SilverBird Cinemas, Ghana—for false advertisement, and the Cinema has no plausible explanation for this mess.
You wouldn’t catch any Cinema doing this in any country where consumers’ rights and false advertisement is taken seriously—but in Ghana, everything goes and at the end of the day, the ordinary citizens bear the lost without any functioning entity to take the culprits on.
Can you imagine visiting the website of a Cinema which has listed all the movies being shown; the date and time slots—and then leaving your house with friends in a taxi only to be told when you arrive at the cinema that the movie is not even yet in the country?
This is exactly and how poorly SilverBird Cinemas in Ghana is operating—at least, it has been doing so from Friday when this issue was flagged.
The Cinema chain in Ghana with outlets at the Accra Mall and West Hills Mall since Friday (19th June, 2015) has been advertising that the movie-Entourage (see image above and below) is showing on the Cinema’s official website and also that of their partner website-GhanaWeb.Com. When actually, they do not even have the movie yet…
Several Ghanaians who spent money and time to make way to either the SilverBird Cinema at the Accra Mall or the West Hills Mall were met with big disappointment and no explanation—the movie was not being shown despite the cinema having advertised it. The cinema is still advertising the movie with specific showing times (as at the time of publishing this).
On SilverBird Cinemas’ website and that of their partners, they’ve advertised Entourage as showing in Ghana, starting from Friday-19 June at the following times; Friday: 1:00pm, 4:00pm, 6:10pm | Saturday: 1:00pm, 4:00pm, 6:10pm | Sunday: 1:00pm, 4:00pm, 6:10pm | Monday: 1:00pm, 4:00pm, 6:10pm | Tuesday: 1:00pm, 4:00pm, 6:10pm | Wednesday: 1:00pm, 4:00pm, 6:10pm | Thursday: 1:00pm, 4:00pm, 6:10pm.
We are told it’s not just the movie-Entourage and that this is not the first time the Cinema is doing this—perhaps, they’ve gotten away with it so many times and have wasted people’s money and time enough to the extent that they don’t really care anymore.