Desperate - ripped off on my credit card in a lapdancing club

cheekylilbint86

oh bless ya lol

Richard019

chuckley wrote: »

sorry but i still come back to the recipts... if you are gonna get scammed why would they leave YOU with proof of the transactions???

wouldnt it be better to get rid that way all OP has is his bank statement?!

doesnt sit right with me.

When you wake up in the morning next to a minger do you go "I don't remember her, I wouldn't go near her sober, it must have been somebody else" or do you go "oh my god what have I done?". I would hazard a guess that it's the 2nd.

When you wake up in the morning with 4 receipts for £1k I would imagine that whilst you're more likely to question them, it does leave even you with the thought that you could have authorised the transactions as you were there and can't remember things clearly.

Best of luck to the OP in sorting it out, but I can see it being a bar tab that has had to be paid when it reaches a certain level (£1k in this case). If someone were buying drinks for themselves and somebody else they could quite easily be on very expensive drinks somewhere like that. I don't think they'd tell you how much was being put on the tab each time and when it came to authorising them you were drunk and quite probably distracted.

I'm not convinced it was outside of licencing hours either. Since 24 hour licencing was introduced I'm aware of plenty of retailers, pubs, and clubs that trade shorter hours than their licence (particularly during the week) and use the longer hours when they want to without the need for an extension.

cg1982

jesus sounds dodgy mate i would look in to it

mewbie_2

Great story. Wondering what conversation with credit card company, assuming it's an Indian call centre went like?

We join part way through...
"You spend 4k on credit card on dancing lessons?"
"No... a LAP dancing club"
"LAP dancing? Please spell?"
"L-A-P dancing".
"Like Bollywood film? Ladies dance and sing"
"Er.. not really"
"You dance with ladies in club sir?"
"No. er. Ladies dance and you pay them"
"They dance in your lap sir?"
"Er. Sort of."
"Sounds painful sir. Why they dance in lap not on floor?"
"It's a sex bar"

pause

"OK, we get a lot of calls from English people like you. I call manager now".

Ian_Griffiths_Halifax

I'd like to know where the card was swiped :eek:

Seriously though, I hope the OP gets it sorted. If he complains to the Credit Card Company that the goods were never received, I think the establishment would have to prove that they were.

I had 2 X £10 transactions for Fuel deducted from one of my Credit Cards on one day at the same petrol station.

I never put £10 of diesel in a 2.2L car, why would I go twice in one day and I wasn't in Newcastle on that day!

I called the card company and they were refunded on my next statement and I never heard anything else about it.

Calchas

NickX wrote: »

and a round of drinks came to £100. Straight onto a slow stooze card for that one :eek:

:rotfl: :T :rotfl:

Voyager2002

If only this were not true, it would be a very funny story!

One possibly helpful angle: use of credit cards is covered by the various rules about allowing people to borrow money. One of these is mental capacity: an agreement to borrow (and repay) money would have no legal validity if it could be demonstrated that one of the parties did not understand what s/he was doing. I suspect that a good lawyer could get a long way arguing that the OP did not understand what he was doing at the the time he authorised the four £1K transactions, and so his agreement to repay the money cannot be legally binding.

shellsuit

MJ, I hope you can get this sorted.

Please let us know the outcome

cookie_monster

If the OP manages to get his money back, I'm heading to the same [strike]strip joint[/strike] lap-dancing bar with my c/c for some fun :j

Ian_Griffiths_Halifax

On the strength of this thread I've been out and bought my self some tassles and a few sparkly thongs. There's clearly more money to be made as a Lap Dancer than as a Mortgage Broker.

Anybody know where there's a vacancy for a 40ish bloke with a Guinness Belly, ideal for Belly Dancing?