Another PL getting burned w/ his credit card @ a SC
Papi_Chulo
Miami, FL (or the nearest big-booty club)
From a recent review of Treasures in Houston:
“… I visited from out of state in December. There aren't clubs like these where I am from so I figured I would go out and have some fun after a successful job interview earlier that day. I fully prepared to spend a few hundred bucks as you have to be prepared to for a fun night at a place like this. I ended up purchasing 8 dances, 5 beers and 4 drinks for different dancers during my time there. Some of these purchases I paid in cash. Toward the end of the night I purchased 4 dances from a dancer I had been talking to at the bar. After the 4 dances she sat back down and we preceded to talk close to an hour. This was in an open area, one table over from where I had been sitting earlier that night, near the stage.
At closing time I went to sign for my credit card and was presented with a $4100 bill. I of course questioned. I was told, "Oh you were charged for every song that you sat and talked. When I said there is no way that is a VIP area the waitress said "Oh come on you can afford it." They than decided they would knock off $1000. I still told them I only agreed to pay for the agreed upon drinks and dances. Long story short I left and they proceeded to charge my card $2961.25.
My advice is go to this place with friends who can be your witnesses and only pay for things in cash. Of course it isn't much fun when you have to be that paranoid when you came to have a good time.
They knew I was alone and from out of state and took advantage of me.
Can only hope Karma catches up with them …”
https://www.tuscl.net/club.php?ID=2741
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There are laws against usury in most or all states in the US.
Now, tell me how charging unethical or immoral rates to some poor strip club patron who never agreed to pay those fees in the first place is any less unethical or immoral.
Clubs like this should be shut down, and the local government should come down hard on their asses without mercy. At least with charging unethical interest rates you know, going in, that you'll be paying 25% per month or whatever on a loan. In this case the guy was never told, and never agreed to pay those fees. Nor would any guy in their right mind pay it. Only guys like Dugan, who might get some strange ego boost or something.
The reviewer did not mention talking to the manager; don’t know if that would have helped but it could have just been a dancer/waitress scam and maybe management could have done something (although management are probably ROBs also).
I would have not paid nor signed the receipt and would have called the cops and made a report – I imagine getting ROBed for this kinda amount would be some kind of felony.
The interesting question to me is how clubs can survive with such shitty customer service, of which this is only one example. Most businesses would be done in short order if they treated customers like this. I think clubs get away with it because they have a service that is in low supply with high demand. With limited competition and high demand, a business can continue to operate even though it treats a good customer this way.
04/11/14 - Like others have said DO NOT USE YOUR CREDIT CARD HERE.
05/07/14 - DO NOT give them your credit card. I know too many people who were charged extra drinks and dances.
07/12/14 - DO NOT USE YOUR CREDIT CARD HERE! Cash only. Trust me on this one.
I never have or will use a CC in a SC but seen it done and they not only take your CC in advance but also your ID. So it's hard not to sign.
I can't believe the waitress would say something like "Oh come on you can afford it".
Also the math doesn't work, if he was charged for dances while sitting and talking for an hour that would not come close to several thousand. At 3 minutes a song that would be 20 songs. Assuming $50 a song that would be $1000 and this club appears to be $20 a song so $400.
Simply dispute the charge and let them sue you. Also if the charges were for dances over drinks the stripper should have been given most of the money. Bet that didn't happen.
You can't believe that? Hell, it's the same attitude guys like Dugan keep promoting here all the time. Hey, it's only money, you can afford it, so give it to the dancers.
It's moronic when a waitress says it, and it's moronic when Dugan says it.
Having to leave a club and come back and possibly having to pay a 2nd cover charge sucks –in an emergency I’d use the club’s ATM and eat the fees (the PL got ROBed b/c he handed his cc to the club/employee).
Don't blame the customer. Put the blame where it belongs. Boycott the fucking place.
Might be easier to get the club on other charges like prostitution, drugs etc. Throw the book at the club. A club that routinely rips off customers needs to be shut down as a nuisance to the community.
Even if it comes down to using the CC because there's no choice, just an open-ended CC tab for any and all goods and services whatsoever as may come up, so you don't know what you'll on the final ticket, is unwise; if I'm confronted with adopting that business model or else, I would call the night over rather than take it no matter how epic the tits in front of me.
Some clubs I've been to may open a continuing bar tab on the one hand, strictly for drinks, and on the other a separate room tab specifically for every hour or half-hour session; up front the first item in each such ticket is the hr/half-hr rate; at the end you can then add tips in the appropriate line. Couple of times the VIP hosts lowered the price substantially without being asked, as soon as I said it would be all cash.
Credit cards are always processed at a premium at the SCs anyway, just as is the ATM, and just as with the "funny money"/Dance Dollars for those places that still use them the money gets double-dipped ( you get socked a commission when buying them, AND then SHE gets socked for one AGAIN when cashing them).