[QUOTE=Jake993]Gentlemen,
I have been wanting to ask a question for some time now but have not quite known how to ask it. A few years ago, I was in Vienna on business staying at the Mercur Hotel on Fleishmarkt near Rotenturnstrasse. For several nights, my colleagues and I had come home late from dinner or drinks and seen the Hollywood Gentlemen's Club across the street from the hotel. Having heard about these "rip off" places for years, I had no interest in going at all but one night my colleague convinced me that we should go inside and have one drink. Going inside we ordered a beer at the bar and within a few minutes a lovely girl asked if we would like to purchase a bottle of champagne to drink with her for 500 Euros. I almost laughed out loud because I had heard about these places and politely said "no thank you". My friend had also never actually been to one of these bars but worse still, he had never had the benefit of hearing any of the stories either. Therefore he seemed quite intrigued with the whole place. I continued to decline offers of champagne but my friend grew more and more curious. It was well past midnight and we had been eating and drinking for hours and I was feeling quite drunk and ready for bed. I told my mate that I was going to bed and that he should follow if he knew what was good for him.
I left the bar, crossed the street to the hotel and went up stairs. My room had a view of the street and so periodically I looked out the window to see if my friend was coming home. Soon, I gave up looking and went to bed. The next morning, my friend was in poor shape. Not only because he had continued drinking and was clearly in need of more sleep, but because of the story he then told me.
Apparently after I left, the girls continued to offer him bottles of champagne but now the price has gone up to 800 Euros. He showed me his Visa card receipts and indeed he had three receipts for 800 Euros and four receipts for 1, 500 Euros! I asked him what the hell had happened but, he could not tell me the details. He said that he felt like he was in a haze and was powerless to refuse. I asked him if he had fucked one or a two of these girls, but he told me he was sure that there was no sex involved. He remembered something about a private dance in a special room, but that the girl stripped only down to her underwear. He said he tried to at least get a blow job out of the deal but she refused. They went back to the bar where the manager now was pressuring him into purchasing more and more champagne.
If what this poor bastard was telling me was the truth, then he spent 8, 400 Euros on champagne and not much to show for it. The whole thing seems rather fantastic to me. First, the 1500 Euro receipts were for magnums of champagne. If a magnum is 1. 5 liters, then he bought the equivalent of 11 bottles of champagne that night for 3 or 4 people max. When I left, there was the manager woman and two other girls, plus a bar tender. How could a few people have drank 11 bottles of champagne? I don't get it.
Has anyone heard of this bar called "Hollywood" on Feischmarkt and ever heard about such a thing happening? Something seems very wrong about my friend's visit and it has bothered me ever since. He is no longer any fun at all on business trips and just stays in his hotel room. What the hell happened? Any guesses? What is he not telling me?
I thought sex in Moscow was expensive. Sounds to me like champagne in Vienna is worse. I told my friend that the saddest part is that the two of us could have gone to Babylon for that much money and had a very fine time indeed.
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Well fuck me the poor bastard, this is the worst scam of this type that I have ever heard about. Ive heard about guys getting scammed for a few hundred pounds in London clip joints, and I remember reading about a guy that payed €700 and didnt actually get sex in the famous Yab yum club in Amsterdam a few years ago, but this poor guy gets done for €8400!!!!
I suspect his drink was spiked for sure. Like you said there were 4 staff total and just your poor mate after you left. So those 4 scumbags made it their mission to take advantage of a drunk and naive man, and absolutely extract as much money as they possibily could out of him.
I wonder is he (could be "was he" now) married or single. Could be hard to hide a big credit card bill like that from the wifey.