Using a card reader on a phone??
What do you guys think about a stripper swiping your card on a phone card reader? I use one in my day job, I know some clubs forbid them because they’re common and in other clubs no one has seen one. You have to sign the screen to approve the charge. Would you find this useful??
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I know the clubs don't like them because the clubs lose out on fees or funny money conversions. So the dancers had to be discreet.
Dominic, yes, square is exactly what I’m talking about and yes, avoiding club fees is also what I’m talking about.
They must be the one's that don't post here.
;-)
The dancer who accepted payment on her square reader only charged 5%. The charge showed up on my credit card statement as a Sports Bar.
Some enforce that rule more than others. For example, I heard PayPal is the worst.
On the other hand, there are other processors that are friendly about allowing adult entertainment, but the transaction fee will be higher for card swipes.
But I guess if it’s just an occasional thing with a trusted customer instead of a real habit, it’s no big deal what service is being used for accepting payment.
As others on here, I tend to avoid using a credit-card in the club but I might on a particular occasion where I didn't bring enough $$$ w/ me and using an app would be cheaper.
I'm old-school and have not used any phone payment apps so unless I had seen-it discussed here my first reaction would be to not wanna hand my credit-card over to a stripper ya know.
However, the club isn’t going anywhere. How can I feel safe in swiping my card using a dancer’s card reader?
Dancers can be transient - and have drug issues - which creates a need for quick money - and it offers a quick out too!
If a suspicious charge pops up on my bill - and I call my credit card company - they will have a good laugh when I tell them I swiped my card on Pink Sugar Doll’s card reader at Tits-R-Us during a 2 for 1 topless special.
In an industry where performers are transient - and don’t use real names - it’s murky at best. So I’d rather not swipe my plastic.
I’m sure Pink Sugar Doll is legit, and a good person. But there is too much risk when swiping a card.
I use SquareCash and have it hooked to my Google Voice number and a burner email. You don’t have to use your *real* number. Yes, you have to use an actual bank card if you want the money in the bank, but you can get a card from Square themselves.
A payment system would need to jump through many hoops of fire to convince me that it can truly secure my privacy.
What I’m talking about—I am actually a hair stylist. (With a business degree, too). I use this when I am doing hair independently of my salon or on location. It’s just like in restaurants now where they have a card reader at the table, you swipe it and sign on the phone screen so it’s not like the customer has to go into an app on his phone, I would do everything, right in front of you, not walking away with your card. Just to provide a further insight for those who hadn’t heard of it, I should have done that to begin with, ugh!
This was a helpful discussion though. I appreciate the person who said they attached their square to a google voice, I have mine attached to a burner number, good advice though.
And I think also you folks are more experienced, like you mentioned, and jaded lol, than the average strip club patron. Haha. Thanks for the feedback!
'Seasoned' is the term we prefer.
Or 'sauced'.... depends on the night.
I think most clubs wouldn’t know about it, I see it being banned in high-roller clubs, super clubs where guys are spending thousands.
2. Most of us are jaded, yes, and I personally think a lot of typical guys in a club wouldn’t have a problem with swiping their card because they don’t know any better, although with square they aren’t giving a credit card number to you, it’s nit like you can take that info and produce additional charges. I normally would say go for it but like someone else said if some PL got up the next morning and yelled “fraud” to their credit card company after you got a few of those that could certainly hurt your standing with Square.
3. Would almost clubs even allow you to do this or are most big ones careless to what you do as long as they get their tip out and VIP fees?
Most clubs would frown on it but there is a lot of stuff they maybe don’t want you to do that happens anyway. I wouldn’t be too worried of getting fired because of this, unless there was an explicit rule about it they most likely would just ask you to not do it again, but how would the club find out??
That makes good business sense but I'd think it would scare-off PLs even more especially having their ID photographed.
Makes me cringe every time I see it.
That said, fuck all that. Got any tips for hitting on the hot hairdresser?
No way I am letting a stripper, or anyone else, take a picture of my credit card and drivers license. That would leave you with a permanent record of the card number, name, address, drivers license number etc. ID Theft would be the least of the concerns at that point.
I have tipped a few strippers through a secondary PayPal account that I set up with a burner email. That Paypal account isn't connected directly to a bank account and I fund it with transfers from my regular PayPal account. As long as you use the send money to a friend option instead of the pay bill option there is no fee and all you need is the email address of the account you are sending money to. Stay anonymous, avoid possible credit card fraud and avoid fees all at the same time.
Still prefer to deal in cash, but sometimes an unexpected pleasure presents itself when you're short on cash.