Nickel and Dime

ATM fees are not a concern of mine. My debit card allows no fee withdrawals at any location.

I have an extra, extraordinary, excessive amount of hatred and vitriol for any form of ATM fee. Yet...I've paid that damn fee anyways and in spite of knowing I was a fool for falling prey to the clever machinations of the strip club industry. My cock has a mind of his own. I'm just an innocent bystander along for the ride.

I encountered this in a club recently. The ATM charges 6$ and my bank $3 for using that. It's okay if I can get ~300 for an average visit. But if the limit is 100 then I am looking at $ 27 fees for the ATM. Which is money literally wasted from my perspective.

I used the ATM at Landing Strip in Detroit once, and paid a $25 fee. Now I make sure I've got plenty of cash with me, at least $300, more if I'm making an evening of it.

I have a policy against paying the outrageous ATM fees at strip clubs. I've only violated this policy once, and in my defense I was getting a blow job and couldn't stop.

I use cash. when the cash runs out. I walk out of the club & head home

@ Slick: I've experienced the same problem in my earlier years of clubbing with an ATM card in hand--low withdrawal amounts per transaction.

@ jackslash: for the umpteenth time I'm agreeing with you! I make it a point to know where my own bank's ATM is located near the strip clubs I regularly go to. (I hate to admit it, but with only 13 clubs in my "local area," I think I can safely say I know where my ATM is nearby at all 13 clubs. But several are clustered, so there are a few examples where one ATM will "serve" two or three clubs.)

I lock my credit and debit card (also car keys and cell phone) in a safe in the trunk of my car. run out of money--go home , fool

Yeah, I know this happens, but is it really the strip club doing that or the bank who owns the ATM? I don't think you can wholly blame the strip club on this. That said, I've gone to foreign ATMs that weren't in strip clubs and the fees charged aren't nearly as high as the ATMs at strip clubs.

^^^The club gets a big cut of the ATM fees.

@SuperDude-
I assume that's a mutual agreement between the bank and the strip club? I suppose this is something I never really thought about before. I mean, I know I shouldn't take more than I intend to spend, but sometimes, I just say fuck it.

ALWAYS take more cash to a club than you expect to spend. Any person who uses a club ATM is a major FOOL! Use of Credit cards is also not a good idea. TOO much chance of bogus charges.

“… Yeah, I know this happens, but is it really the strip club doing that or the bank who owns the ATM? …”


Could be – but only in SCs have I had the issue of paying $5+ (up to $12) per ATM transaction and only in SCs have I ran into the $100 limit per transaction – just my personal experience - so what superdude states makes perfect sense to me – why else would only SCs have such outrageous fees?

I normally take a decent amount of cash to the SC but I’m not too keen on carrying a lot of extra cash on me b/c I may either lose it or have it stolen being that I go to dives all the time (I also either wear sweatpants that have very shallow pockets or shorts w/o pockets thus not making it very functional to store lots of cash or other things).

I’m also more of a spur of the moment SCer – I don’t necessarily plan when I am going or exactly how much I’m going to spend (within reason). If I am having a good time and don’t feel like going home; I don’t want to limit my visit (and good time/fun) or cut it short b/c I wouldn’t want to go over a certain amount (i.e. what I brought to the club). Being a spur of the moment SCer; I rather make the most of a visit if I am having a good time and then back off a bit from visiting if I have overspent.

Club ATMs (and most of those at places like convenience stores) aren't owned by a bank or by the club. An intermediary company owns them and gives the club owner a cut of the fee in exchange for being given the space for the machine. I always assumed these companies are owned by organized crime but I don't really know.