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

brownbabygirl

PROLIANT wrote: »

I hope that the basdarts get what is Cumming to them, hope that you get it sorted soon.

:eek:

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:love the pun

jamalfatty

Cranston wrote: »

If he has told the truth, there is nothing in his posts that is slander.

My beer muddled head is fairly certain he could lie through his teeth on here to his hearts content and still not get done for slander.



Might not be so lucky getting away with libel though

Glittermonkey

I work in retail and we have loads of chargebacks.

It seems that all the customer has to do is tell their bank or CC company that they doubted the transaction, it wasn't them or whatever reason they come up with then payment to us is stopped.

We then have to prove to the bank that it was a genuine transaction carried out by the card holder. Luckily for us we are quiet strict with CC acceptance and we have various steps in place to help us if we ever have to prove it. Even then it is still difficult for us.

So, if the complaint has been put in with your CC company, then the club shouldn't get it and the CC will probably hold onto it until this is sorted out.

I had a drink spiked once by a "cab" driver who took me to his house. Luckily my friend was with me and her drink wasn't spiked so she phoned her boyfriend but I barely remeber a thing. She told em I was doing very strange stuff, seeing people upstairs in bedrooms and searching for them, I couldn't walk downstairs, her boyfriend who I've known for about 20 years I didnt recognise. She took me home and put me to bed, woke up in the morning with the ironing board in the middle of my bedroom, carrier bags all over my bed and all the tins out of my cupboard?? I'd obviously got up after she left me and done all this but I haven't got a clue.

iwanttosavemoney2008

mum2one wrote: »

Have you got definiation from the credit card company that the transactions were authorised by pin number, as you say if the last one was after the licensing time, you can report that one.
You could contact the police, and if they have reason to believe that a fraudulant transaction took trhey may be able to look at the cctv.

Its a very big long shot, but I think (maybe wrong), but with all the cctv lark, as a consumer you could argue you have a right to see the cctv as you were videoed without your express permission, it is a very grey area, but def worth a try.
have you checked to see if a small transaction went through b4 the £1,000 as it could be they tried a small amount and that went through, then the fraudster went for the whole amount, unless you can get any concrete proof you are responsible for the amount of money sorry.

under the data protection act you are legally entitled to view the footage of yourself they are supposed to blur the faces of everyone else in the vid but if you send them a letter with the £10 cheque they have to provide you with the images of you

Dave_®f©

I've seen the CCTV evidence of you in the club....

Alfie_E

jamalfatty wrote: »

My beer muddled head is fairly certain he could lie through his teeth on here to his hearts content and still not get done for slander.



Might not be so lucky getting away with libel though

If ever you’re going to be pedantic, you need to carefully research what you’re about to write. mum2one, Cranston and moike have intuitively got the right idea. In the recent case of Nigel Smith v Advfn Plc and others, Mr Justice Eady said that the casual, conversational nature of bulletin boards, coupled with their small readership, meant that defamatory comments were more like slander than libel. For further details, you can read Bulletin board postings more likely slander than libel, says High Court and Mosley orgy judge blocks web forum libel writ onslaught.

We could all use the generic term ‘defamation’. But, the conversation in this thread has seen ‘do we believe him?/don’t we believe him?’, and terrible puns, much like you could get down the pub… or down your local lap dancing club, before your drink gets spiked.

PROLIANT

The pun's were in effort to try and lighten the subject, no offence intended and I do really hope the OP gets this sorted.

u01jet4

Any more news?

MJ2008_2

Hello all.

No updates yet - we sent a follow up fax to the club on Friday, but still no response at the mo. Fortunately the solicitor is a friend, so his bill had better not be as high as some others I've seen recently... Waiting on the credit card company documentation also - I need to complete some forms to dispute the payment.

I'll revert with news.

fmcnasty

Good Luck mate, sounds as if you have been well scammed. Hope you get everything back.