Sunday, December 1, 2013

False Advertisement made by Rooftop 760



A friend and I decided to celebrate our birthday at Rooftop 760. We decided that we would buy some bottles and the website seemed to have a good deal. I had her call and reserve the bottles. We were under the impression that for $600 that we would get 2 bottles of liquor, a bottle of champagne, 12 guest free all night, all our other guests free before midnight. It also says something about flier design. It seemed like a great deal so we put in a deposit and submitted our guest list.

When we got to the venue we found that they did not have our guest list. We were told that there would be 10 guests free and everyone else had to pay. It wasn't even midnight. This was pretty upsetting but I was sure that once we got in everything else was going to run smoothly. Boy was I wrong. That was just the beginning of the crap that we were to face throughout the night.

My friend had two guests that were not allowed in initially because they had on shoes with white bottoms. The flier said that the dress code is no hats, no sneakers, no t-shirts. Nothing about no white bottom shoes. We saw people inside with shoes on with white bottoms. We put in a complaint and eventually they were let into the club. Did I mention that later in the night I saw someone in white shell top Adidas? Those are clearly sneakers. Hmmm.

Still on the topic of the dress code 2 of my friends were turned away at the door because one of them had on a champion sweater over his actual club clothes. It was cold outside and he opted to wear the sweater instead of his coat.  He had showed them his cardigan and shirt under and they told him no. I told him to take the sweater off and hand it to me. They then let him in. Did I mention the dress code did not say no sweatshirts? Hmm... Again. There was also another poor guest of another group that was not allowed in because he had on Timberland boots. Where in the dress code did it say no work boots? SMH. It didn't.

Now let me talk to you about the false advertisement of the bottle service. We paid and they bought us 2 bottles of liquor. We did not get the champagne as advertised. I spoke to the promoter and was told that on top the of $600 dollars paid that we would have to pay an additional $20.00 for house champagne. I told him that it was not what was posted on the website. He said to show him where it said we would get champagne in the package. I opened up the browser on my phone and showed him where it said that. He then selected another link for birthdays that said that information about the $20.00. So the website has a discrepancy in information provide to the customers. You would think that based on this he would comp us the $20.00 bottle of house champagne. Nope. He didn't. Let's also mention that we got no customized fliers or birthday shout outs that were advertised on the second page he opened.

I asked someone working in the club to speak to the manager. I had to wait 20 minutes to speak to someone. Once he arrived he told me he was the manager of Copacabana and that he had no control over the party. They rent the space to the promoter for Rooftop 760. He said that he would speak to the promoter and come back to see me. He asked me to stay where I was. I waited for almost an hour. When he did finally speak to me he said that the promoter would be by our table. The promoter never came.

 I wasted 4 hours of my night trying to get things situated. By the time I had a chance to have fun I was too drunk to enjoy myself. My poor friends kept passing me drinks to calm me down so I could relax. This was a lesson well learned. I am pretty sure that was my last time attending that venue. It is definitely my last time purchasing bottle service at a night club. It's expensive and not worth the aggravation.

Below are some screen shots from Rooftop 760's fliers and contradicting posted information. Consumers beware. These people will take your money and won't give a damn about providing quality customer service. 

Compliments of http://www.theupscalegroup.com/event_details.php?eid=256

What we thought we were getting
















 From another part of the website under the birthday tab.













Their flier.