supergoat
08-28-2006, 08:49 PM
This is a long overdue story, I believe this was from the a dyno meet with the Ford Probe car club I'm in(Yes there it a Probe club, best car club ever!) :smoker: . Anyway, I wanted to share it with you guys because it was funny to us at the time and I still chuckle about it. I just finally got around to writing the rest.
http://www.thedailygoat.com/wordpress/?p=95 - My website where I post everything.
Owned by Dave and Busters
By Stephen Wilds
So my adventures took me to Dave and Busters tonight. If you are unfamiliar with this establishment it is a restaurant, bar, arcade and other sorts of entertainment all rolled up under one roof. Things were going ok. I had a water and chocolate shake as the rest of the crew had beer, wine and even more water. But not everything was cake and assholes at Dave and Busters. You see I should have known that the evening would end in disaster when my ID was checked and then introduced to the $5 cover charge. I normally don’t care about cover charges, but it’s a bit off putting to have to pay to get into a glorified Chuck-e-cheese. On the plus side we did get VIP cards; VIP if you are wondering stands for Very Important Player, obviously they knew we were ballers.
After our drinks, and one cheesesteak we decided to go see what these VIP cards were all about. Standing there wondering if they actually had credit on them, I randomly swiped it into a game, pressed a button and won 3 tickets. It was on. We spied the Ski-Ball machines and made a b-line. Ball after ball was chucked down the short lanes and after many, probably too many, games we had a bountiful treasure of tickets!
What to buy though? Plastic spider rings? Shot glasses? Leashes made of wire to simulate an invisible dog? The choices were endless, and all were equally great! As we handed our tickets to the lady behind the counter she reminded us that we need a Dave and Busters game card in order to redeem the tickets. This should be no problem as we all got one when we paid our cover charge.
“No you need a real one, that is a complimentary card. You have to purchase a card to in order to redeem these tickets. It’s only $2, but you have to get it over there” she says as she points to a long line of people. Complimentary my ass! We had to pay $5 for these damn things!
Our spirits were crushed. What do we do? Do we walk away in order to make a point that we were not to be screwed with? Or do we buy a card. Would we allow ourselves to be hoodwinked like this? Of course not, we had too much pride for that, at least I do and I know my friends felt the same way…
So I’m next in line. Amynda, yes that’s Amanda with a Y, asks if she can help me and I politely tell her I just need a $2 game card so I can redeem my tickets and get a plastic spider ring. Amynda tells me that she can’t JUST sell me the card, I have to also put money on it. Apparantly I have to pay $2 for a little plastic card and then add more credit to it to be able to redeem the tickets. Amynda also informs me that the $2 purchase price also includes $2 of credit on the card…then why do I have to add more money to a card that comes with $2 in credit when I don’t plan on even using it?
So I tell her to add the smallest amount of credit possible to the card. She looks at me and says, “The smallest amount you can put on is $1.”
“I’ll have that then!”. She stares and asks, “A dollar? You just want a dollar on it?”. I reply, “Yes ma’am! Just a dollar.”
I get my card and we go and buy a shot glass. I leave the place feeling a bit better that we left with something, but also a bit distraught that we had to pay more money just to redeem the tickets we won with the complimentary game card we paid $5 for. I then felt even worse when I realized that somehow they were able to talk ME into paying for the new game card and then I didn’t even get to keep the shot glass!
Oh well, Dave and Busters pulled one over on us. They hooked us. It’s a version of the age old bait and switch routine. For that reason, I’ll probably never return to that place again. **** you Dave. **** you Buster. And **** you Amynda!!
http://www.thedailygoat.com/wordpress/?p=95 - My website where I post everything.
Owned by Dave and Busters
By Stephen Wilds
So my adventures took me to Dave and Busters tonight. If you are unfamiliar with this establishment it is a restaurant, bar, arcade and other sorts of entertainment all rolled up under one roof. Things were going ok. I had a water and chocolate shake as the rest of the crew had beer, wine and even more water. But not everything was cake and assholes at Dave and Busters. You see I should have known that the evening would end in disaster when my ID was checked and then introduced to the $5 cover charge. I normally don’t care about cover charges, but it’s a bit off putting to have to pay to get into a glorified Chuck-e-cheese. On the plus side we did get VIP cards; VIP if you are wondering stands for Very Important Player, obviously they knew we were ballers.
After our drinks, and one cheesesteak we decided to go see what these VIP cards were all about. Standing there wondering if they actually had credit on them, I randomly swiped it into a game, pressed a button and won 3 tickets. It was on. We spied the Ski-Ball machines and made a b-line. Ball after ball was chucked down the short lanes and after many, probably too many, games we had a bountiful treasure of tickets!
What to buy though? Plastic spider rings? Shot glasses? Leashes made of wire to simulate an invisible dog? The choices were endless, and all were equally great! As we handed our tickets to the lady behind the counter she reminded us that we need a Dave and Busters game card in order to redeem the tickets. This should be no problem as we all got one when we paid our cover charge.
“No you need a real one, that is a complimentary card. You have to purchase a card to in order to redeem these tickets. It’s only $2, but you have to get it over there” she says as she points to a long line of people. Complimentary my ass! We had to pay $5 for these damn things!
Our spirits were crushed. What do we do? Do we walk away in order to make a point that we were not to be screwed with? Or do we buy a card. Would we allow ourselves to be hoodwinked like this? Of course not, we had too much pride for that, at least I do and I know my friends felt the same way…
So I’m next in line. Amynda, yes that’s Amanda with a Y, asks if she can help me and I politely tell her I just need a $2 game card so I can redeem my tickets and get a plastic spider ring. Amynda tells me that she can’t JUST sell me the card, I have to also put money on it. Apparantly I have to pay $2 for a little plastic card and then add more credit to it to be able to redeem the tickets. Amynda also informs me that the $2 purchase price also includes $2 of credit on the card…then why do I have to add more money to a card that comes with $2 in credit when I don’t plan on even using it?
So I tell her to add the smallest amount of credit possible to the card. She looks at me and says, “The smallest amount you can put on is $1.”
“I’ll have that then!”. She stares and asks, “A dollar? You just want a dollar on it?”. I reply, “Yes ma’am! Just a dollar.”
I get my card and we go and buy a shot glass. I leave the place feeling a bit better that we left with something, but also a bit distraught that we had to pay more money just to redeem the tickets we won with the complimentary game card we paid $5 for. I then felt even worse when I realized that somehow they were able to talk ME into paying for the new game card and then I didn’t even get to keep the shot glass!
Oh well, Dave and Busters pulled one over on us. They hooked us. It’s a version of the age old bait and switch routine. For that reason, I’ll probably never return to that place again. **** you Dave. **** you Buster. And **** you Amynda!!