Would you rate such crappy treatment so well?

??? Wtf??? Be nice until it is time not to be. This is clearly time not to be

Another reason not to use a credit card at the club.

We've had discussions of this sort many times.

Strip club management and the rules they place in their establishments certainly do not require Mensa membership.

Never ceases to amaze at how some clubs treat their customers like shit.

Must be a S&M club.

I don't use CCs at the clubs so I wouldn't know. I wouldn't have rated them that high, so, no.

Using a credit card at a strip club is a way to open the pandora's box.

I had a bouncer at Flash Dancers be a real dick about ordering the mandatory almost $20 drink. He walked me to the bar to make sure that I ordered it. Apparently I should've worn my white suit. But I sure as fuck didn't give him a credit card, and It only happened the one time.

It could be that the ratings he gave-it still apply to the overall club even though the bouncer was a prick.

Better check your CC statement on line ASAP.

If anyone took my card and refused to return it, I'd tell him he can either return the card and I'm leaving peacefully, or I'm leaving and calling the police and I'll let THEM get my card back.

I would have given him a choice:
Give my card back right now because I am leaving or my next call will be to the police and my credit card company to report the theft of my card and ID!
Plus warn him if he touches me I will have him charge with assault.

Hell I usually do not even take a card into a club much less get it out.
I also never run a tab

I never, EVER, EVER do tabs.

That Flashdancers experience is not unique. I hate traveling to NYC because of what the reviewer described. Utter contempt and hatred of customers by all SCs and NCs in NYC. One story I read was a night club, so exclusive nobody, that people wait all night outside online and never get in. It has no website or phone number, but gets mentioned in local magazines as the most luxurious exclusive NC in NYC with photos of the interior. After much research online, I figured out, that NC is never open to the public. You absolutely can not get in by walking up. Online rumor says it is either a brothel for lunch time to VIPs the owner of the NC personally knows (super rich Wall Street family men that absolutely can not leave the house after 5PM), or functions as rental venue of another nightclub with a different name that same guy owns. To get into this exclusive nightclub, a promoter would have to rent the building for the night, and submit his VIP list to the doorman. If you dont know the promoter or buy a ticket from him, you can't get in.

Holding your DL for excessive amounts of time in NYC SCs has happened to me. It might be because your DL was unscannable by the computer and they have to spend 2 minutes typing in your DL #, your legal name, and DOB and probably your home address and they dont want you standing there while they do it. I only give them my passport, they dont need my home address. Some SCs dont bother typing in the info if I give them a passport, while a DL will always be swipped.

There might be another aspect to this, fake IDs. If it is fake, the underage customer will be freaking out that he was busted, and the SC is calling the police during the delay in getting back his DL, and demand his ID back. The SC's attitude is good riddance. If you freak out about your DL being taken away, you will freak out at our drink prices.

Not using a CC in a SC has another plus. On a business trip to Moscow, my boss "found and settled down" in an nightclub and rented the birthday room, seats 40-60, 4 private bathrooms attached to the room too so we never have to go through the nightclub and use the public bathrooms in the night club (or private bathroom to go and fuck in). The nightclub had stripper poles but I never saw any stage dancing or stripping when I walked through the dance floor/main room to goto the street to smoke. The regulars looked like fat bald russian mob bosses in black suits with cheetah dress whores and the stage entertainment consisted of women doing karaoke in russian. All the bench seats/tables against the walls had retracted curtains that could create private rooms in theory, but all of them were tied up and never used that night. Lots of middle eastern harem curtains decor in the dance floor room.

The boss (a female) sent texts to all of us over the course of the afternoon informing us to come to the nightclub where she was partying. Food and non-alcohol drinks on company tab. Alcohol is pay yourself. The party wasnt really a party because of my companies strict sexual harassment, no discrimination, and GLBT friendly policies. No strippers, no female entertainment.

At the end of the night, there was a fight over the bill. The 2 foot POS receipt came to $1200 USD, but there was a problem. There were 3 30% taxes on the bottom the receipt. Taxes are never listed on receipts in russia, they are built into the retail prices. The subtotal was really $600. We checked the prices in the menus, they were all accurate in the receipt as in the menus we were given. Our russian handler/coworker told us, its a 30% gratuity to the kitchen, 30% gratuity to the hospitality, and 30% gratuity to the owners of the nightclub ("for the house"). After much bartering and arguing in russian, and since there were 35 of us, the gratuity was knocked down to 25% to the kitchen, 5% to the waiter, and 0% to the house. The head waiter said the kitchen "wouldn't budge" on their 30%, and he will give his 5% to the kitchen to "bring peace", whatever. The party room was supposed to be "free" because we were a huge group. It technically was as there was never a line item for it on the POS receipt.

Lesson of story, never use a CC in any place seedy. And all SCs and nightclubs are seedy places. My CC stays locked in the car.

I forgot, her USA corporate CC only works at 1 bank's ATMs in russia, so my boss paid for everything with cash, hence why the POS receipt could be negotiated.