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    I am having terrible luck with clubs as of late. After getting hit with the kitchen sink in Florida, my recent excursion in Kentucky had me shakin' my head yet again, but not because of a dancer ... rather how the club treats it's customers ....

    Arrived with a friend who is a VIP at this particular club. Apparently he can't bring a guest for free. They made me pay a cover charge ... on a Tuesday ... Of course I would have tipped the door girl the amount of the cover charge, so she lost out.

    Opened a tab with my Credit Card. They asked for ID. No problem. They brought back a full letter sized page with my card imprinted, my ID copied on it and wanted my signature AND a fingerprint. This wasn't the bill, just some sort of form. I asked what happened to the form and was told it was sent to the home office. Great, they are going to mail all my personal information and my credit card someplace, don't know where ... thanks but no, I said I would just pay cash. It took a bartender, bouncer and the manager of the club to decide to let me pay cash ... after every one of them tried to explain that this was all 'to protect me in case someone had stolen my card'. Sure it was .... Of course the fact that the picture on my ID looked exactly like me had no bearing on the situation ...

    Every dancer in the place charged something different for a dance, which of course wasn't mentioned until after the second girl danced for me. First girl was $20 per song. And yes, I asked the first girl for the 'lay of the land' before I got my first dance. Second girl got pissed when I paid her the same amount ... claiming she was $25 per song. Found out later the girls could set their own prices.

    Needed to hit the ATM later in the evening. I know, not the best thing to do, but I'm OK with paying a higher fee than my friendly neighborhood bank on those rare ocassions when situations warrant. ATM fee was $5 ... not bad. Oh wait, you can only take out $60 each time you use it. I've seen limits, but never that low. Again, the manager explained it was for 'my protection' to which I replied, 'then why does it allow me to do it multiple times?' Blank stare ...

    I finally told the girl that I spent the most time with that the club had cost her at least $300 that night because of the ATM and having to pay cash for our rather large bar tab. She said she heard that all the time from customers, but every time they mention it management blows them off.

    Don't get me wrong, I know some of these things are common at some clubs, but to nickel and dime customers and make them jump through hoops just to spend money ... especially in this economy ... is plain stupid. I go to this city a lot for business, but needless to say I won't be going back to that club anytime soon.

    Rant over ...

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    Nothing like a club trying to protect you from yourself.
    How thoughtful of them!

    Were the dancers at least hot?

    Your unfortunate experience is the perfect example of why I prefer to leave all plastic at home before hitting a club. And once the cash is gone, so am I.

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    Default Re: Yet another (bad) trip report .. :(

    sounds like the $60 dollar limit was to get the $5 club fee each time...

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    Well, my club takes a fingerprint, but it is for fraud protection. The rest of your story though, sounds like they gave you the BS runaround.

    Sorry you had a bad night.

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    Quote Originally Posted by mediocrity View Post
    Well, my club takes a fingerprint, but it is for fraud protection.
    To me a PL is a guy that would give a Pimp his finger print; much like the PL that would give an escort his real name and place of employment. They both say it is for PL protection. Oh yes Pimps are so worried about protecting PLs.

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    Quote Originally Posted by lopaw View Post
    Your unfortunate experience is the perfect example of why I prefer to leave all plastic at home before hitting a club. And once the cash is gone, so am I.
    I normally don't use plastic except when the bar tab is a business expense (and it was this time), but this was a perfect storm. Found a girl I really liked, and had used a bunch of my LD funds to pay cash for the bar tab due to the idiotic fingerprint rule.

    Quote Originally Posted by NaughtyBebe View Post
    sounds like the $60 dollar limit was to get the $5 club fee each time...
    Sure it was ... and that's my point. By nickle and diming me (the customer) on the fee, the club, and (more importantly to me) the dancers lost revenue that night. I ended up withdrawing half of what I would have done if the fee had been $5 for whatever amount I wanted. At $5 the ATM fee was still higher than if I had left the club and found an ATM someplace else in town. I don't mind them marking up the fees a little, but this was crazy.
    Quote Originally Posted by mediocrity View Post
    Well, my club takes a fingerprint, but it is for fraud protection. The rest of your story though, sounds like they gave you the BS runaround.

    Sorry you had a bad night.
    Yes it was for fraud protection ... for THEIR protection.

    For all of their employees to try to tell me it was for my protection was laughable and a complete lie. If they had just said 'we have do it because we've had a bunch of people try to chargeback their tabs by claiming they weren't here.' then I wouldn't have been pi$$ed. Fabricating the story that it's to protect me was just BS and they knew it.

    I was protected when they asked for my ID (which I gave them) which had my picture and name spelled exactly like the way it was on the card.
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    Default Re: Yet another (bad) trip report .. :(

    Yeah I worked at a place where they did thunb prints too, it was so gay I would always reach behing the bar and grab a plastic cup, hand it to the customer and tell him we needed a urine sample. Tried to make a joke out if an awkward situation.

    This falls under the "shooting oneself in the foot" category.
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