Hand grab surcharge from cooler : really ?!

got it thanks

 

Reminds me of a local place now out of business (and the cocaine trade hereabouts probably suffered as a result) that charged an extra $5 for using a credit card, supposedly out of financial neccessity. We're all familiar with places that insist on a minimum CC amount to offset whatever they have to pay for CC transactions (in my experience it's usually $5), but to slap an extra $5, especially if you've spent quite a bit more than that already? They also made no attempt to post any mention of this supposed neccessity, so the first time you noticed it was when you had to pay $5 more than you were expecting.

 

Corkage fees are a regular thing, gotta get some money for using their place for bringing in something to drink that you didn't buy from them, but to charge for not drinking something they are selling to you? That's a whole new level of douchebaggery that deserves repercussions.

 

as some have said don't go back there but sounds like they have a good selection on offer. If you go back talk to them about it politely.

 

I think my brain just exploded. @beertunes - The Bellingham Beer Oracle - is a native New Yorker?! I need to sequester myself in deep seclusion and ponder things.

Oh, wait. I live minutes from north Idaho, so that would be redundant. Okay, I'm back. All good.

 

For the record, NYC is great but expensive since so many people want to live here @zac16125. So no, don't think they'll be a rush to SC (responding to deleted post). Honestly, New Paltz (not really that upstate, NY imo) and vast sections of SC are nice but don't have the choices NYC or any major urban hub does. By the way, the OP is talking about a bar not in NYC, but outside Buffalo. You cannot pin this one on us. Agree with Cavedave, New York State, which includes NYC, rocks!

 

That's straight-up bunk. I was psyched to try it, but thought Christmas Bomb! was just decent and nothing special.

 

Fair - I shall have to claim the father in laws side of the family who are all just outside Utica
I like to rock climb though, so I always enjoyed "visiting" the folks in New Paltz

 

Name of the bar outside Buffalo is ??

 

You gotta pay to play in the world of craft beer.

 

If you drank it there, then what's the problem?...that's how bars work. Literally every bottle shop that's also a bar, ever.

If you were taking it to go, then that's BS.

 

Think you need to ask the OP to post name of the bar on his thread, not me.

 

Sounds similar to Ticketec and similar that charge you for "online service fees" and so on when you go online, book and order tickets yourself, and print it out yourself. Makes you wonder what the online service fees actually entail.

I always read that sort of junk as "I need an additional Beemer for my fleet" fee.

 

Where I live in Astoria they have fridge doors nd a bar setup . Astoris bier and cheese. if you want to drink a bottled beer from the fridge there. They charge you 10 percent of the price of the bottle to drink it there..

In Brooklyn brooklyn bier merchants another beer bar and bottle shop. If you drink a bottled beer there you will pay a 15 percent premium to drink it there.

So this is common from my experience,

 

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If this was a bar and not a bottle shop. It technically is illegal for you to carry any beer out of there. And that charge probably reflects the bar trying to make a quick buck out of doing you a favor.

 

You can get beer to go from bars? This is news to me.

I'd imagine there's a few key things worth considering here. What laws and regulations exist in this situation? For example, are bars mandated to sell beers "to-go" cheaper than beers "to-stay?" You would think that one being cheaper than the other would make sense, as the beers to stay have more cost of resources (staff, dirty glasses, tying up a seat, etc.). But if it's a beer a lot of people want and the bar can get more money for it if they sell it "to-stay" than they can do go, then they may try to make that money back somehow. Also, if you would have paid $20 to drink it at the bar, but instead paid $20 to take it home and drink where you apparently preferred to drink it and if you could have presumably bought this beer elsewhere - like a bottle shop (which may not be the case) then isn't the extra $6 understandable? You didn't want to go elsewhere to find the beer (or perhaps couldn't), so you plunked down another $6 to get it at the bar you were already hanging out at. Seems reasonable enough. What isn't reasonable is that they didn't tell you about this cost up front. They should have informed me you, either with signage or when you bought it, that there's a $6 hand-grab fee. With all this said, when you got your receipt, you should have checked it and stood your ground while at the establishment.