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

Kharis

I havn't read the whole thread but personally I hope the poster has BUPA cover. I'd be more inclined myself to worry about crabs then credit lol

Ian_Griffiths_Halifax

This has to be one of the fastest growing threads ever:rotfl:

Calchas

This thread has attracted 120 odd replies and more views than the OP originally spent in pounds (sorry £s, I was thinking of possible calorie burning activities) in the course of a little more than 24 hours!

Amazing! Extraordinary!

I know what what I will do if I ever need help with one of my lap dancing bank accounts!

jonnyboy80

Just read this and it reminds me of a story my mate told me recently where in a strip club he was about to pay £75 for a dance and nearly paid £750 for it as it had been incorrectly keyed in...he got an apology and a drink out of it but it makes you wonder how many times that stunt could get pulled....
Hope you get in sorted mate

cg1982

any more news on this mj

MJ2008_2

On the criminal front: The police are unwilling to look into it unless I make a specific allegation that my drink was spiked, so I'm just considering whether to get a drug test and whether it'll show up so long after the incident...

On the civil front: intoxication may permit the payments to be set aside, though I've got a high evidential burden. That said, I'm going to ask for the CCTV footage, which will hopefully demonstrate that I was intoxicated. (I can't imagine they will show me looking sober, though obviously my own recall is virtually nil.) If they claim to have lost the footage, then that will seem suspicious, but I'll have made the request at least which may help my cause.

I've since checked with the local authority, and the last 2 payments were definitely after the club's licensing hours, so that may also give me a little leverage.

Have decided to instruct a solicitor now, since too much is at stake.

I'd strongly advise people to steer clear - I never liked these places before, and the mistake of going into one on Thurs is now costing me dear.

I'll keep you posted.

chuckley

you should have really gone back the next day for CCTV... many record over straight away.

interesting that payments were after licensing hours...

Ian_Griffiths_Halifax

I hope you're not married.

I'm not sure which I'd fear most, trying to get a refund from the Mafia, or a confrontation with the missus.

Good luck.

SnowWhiterThanWhite

I used to work in a Bank, and one of our customers, came in on a Monday morning, distraught that the previous Saturday night, she had been out drinking with some friends who then left her talking with 2 men.
She admitted straight away that she was off her face, and that these men wanted to carry on drinking with her, but apparently they had no money. She remembers all of them walking to the local cash machine & taking out £200 from her account.
When I phoned this through, I was gobsmacked that that the fraud team advised me to refund her account immediately, as because she was drunk, with 2 men she didn't know, they felt she was under duress, their words not mine. She got a refund!

OP, just wondered whether your transactions were actually only £100 and they got 'accidently' keyed as £1000?

mum2one

If your drink was spiked the most popular spikeing used is out of yourt bloodstream and urine by the next morning, so unless you eid a sample b4 bed you have no chance. Hense the missing few hrs by the time people realise it to late.