Has anyone been ripped off by the bar?

My husband has got done once on Friday night. What happen was....the girls will come over and say somethings in English with the bad accent that you hardly understand. He did say yes [ stupid him ] but when the bill came out it was 14 drinks in all that they asked for and help themselves for the drinks. Obviously he didn't have enough money so I had to go over and paid the bill for him. He did promise me not to go there or anywhere with the girls hanging outside again. That incident upset me and the baby I'm carrying a lot. I was his false that step in there at the first place even so he promised me not to go there before. In England where we used to live has no pub or bar like this so I never felt that I have to worry about it. I want to hear from the couple in bkk if you have any problem on your relationship since you moved here or how you manage if your husband wants to go out for a drink down Sukhumvit etc. ?/

P.S. My husband goes to Sukhumvit now and again but he only went to a good place most of the time. I have to give him that.

Chan

This kind of thing is common for people new to Thailand. (He is not an old-hand, I hope. Otherwise he should know better.)

Even "legit" places have been known to add an extra few drinks to a tab of someone they think won't know better. It happened to me at Witches Tavern a few times, but I was trying to pay for a few drinks for friends and I figured that they drank more than I thought. After I figured it out, I either refused to keep a tab or looked over the bill very carefully.

If you trust your husband, let him go where he wants and I doubt he'll fall for that scam again. It's doubtful that he wants you bailing him out like that again. Sometimes "the guys" may want to go to places you'd rather not know about and for him to say, "My wife won't let me" will make him a laughing stock. If he'd rather go to more legit places, he's going to have to figure out how to negotiate that for himself.

Is this for real?

Sounds like he got caught out a bit?

Has anyone been ripped off by the bar?

My husband has got done once on Friday night. What happen was....the girls will come over and say somethings in English with the bad accent that you hardly understand. He did say yes [ stupid him ] but when the bill came out it was 14 drinks in all that they asked for and help themselves for the drinks. Obviously he didn't have enough money so I had to go over and paid the bill for him. He did promise me not to go there or anywhere with the girls hanging outside again. That incident upset me and the baby I'm carrying a lot. I was his false that step in there at the first place even so he promised me not to go there before. In England where we used to live has no pub or bar like this so I never felt that I have to worry about it. I want to hear from the couple in bkk if you have any problem on your relationship since you moved here or how you manage if your husband wants to go out for a drink down Sukhumvit etc. ?/

P.S. My husband goes to Sukhumvit now and again but he only went to a good place most of the time. I have to give him that.

Chan

I was in the bar in question where your husband went last Friday, this evening and they were talking in question about the incident your husband had.

Apparently he bought a bottle of Thai whiskey and went to play pool with the girls. He apparently had more to drink than perhaps he should have had and was buying drinks for the girls he was playing pool with. He was playing the game who loses the pool game paid for the drinks with the opponent.

When he came to check bin, he didn't have enough money and had to call you to come and pay for him.

From what I gather it was a question that he got carried away and didn't realise he ran up a bill of 2,700 baht when he didn't have that much money on him.

I would say it was unfortunate incident and the bar was not ripping him off. I'm just giving the other side of the story.

Just before you question, I have no affiliation with this bar other than drink in there myself. If this was a regular occurance or a scam they would hardly have been talking about it 6 days later.

A lad can go to any bar good or bad and just have a drink. It all comes down to trust in my opinion.

Good answer. Trust is the key. My husband can go where he wants when he wants, i trust him to maintain a sense of sense no matter how tiddly he gets.

That sounds really odd, that he can go where and when he wants as if I sometimes say no you can't go out. He would never stop me doing what I wanted too. Equality is a marvellous thing

It is called "Farang Pays" and is the reason that Thailand is known as the "Land of Smiles" .... they see you coming ... and they watch you go ...

I'm always getting ripped off and having spent a lot of time in Thailand I think I'm pretty careful.

But they find a way.

Virgil, Out!

Has anyone been ripped off by the bar?

My husband has got done once on Friday night. What happen was....the girls will come over and say somethings in English with the bad accent that you hardly understand. He did say yes [ stupid him ] but when the bill came out it was 14 drinks in all that they asked for and help themselves for the drinks. Obviously he didn't have enough money so I had to go over and paid the bill for him. He did promise me not to go there or anywhere with the girls hanging outside again. That incident upset me and the baby I'm carrying a lot. I was his false that step in there at the first place even so he promised me not to go there before. In England where we used to live has no pub or bar like this so I never felt that I have to worry about it. I want to hear from the couple in bkk if you have any problem on your relationship since you moved here or how you manage if your husband wants to go out for a drink down Sukhumvit etc. ?/

P.S. My husband goes to Sukhumvit now and again but he only went to a good place most of the time. I have to give him that.

Chan

Ive paid 800 baht for a beer, but that was because my mate was mouthing off how Thais are all stupid and how they should respect him because he was a farang, we had 1 beer each and it cost 1600 baht and they gave us a bill with a few blokes around the waitress looking like they wanted a fight. I paid and never go to Thailand with him again

Chan in Bangkok

I've lived here in LOS for close on 9 years and in the early days of living here found myself subjected to beer bars "bill-potting" or billed for "invisible drinks".

In time i realised what was going on and now have my own ways of dealing with it.

The worst places for cheating tend to be the open bars were the ladies are allowed on the inside of the bar which makes it easy for them to help themselves to a beer and stick the bill into some unsuspecting farang’s pot whilst he's at the loo, playing pool or his back is turned.

I never let the bill stay behind the bar with the cashier and out of sight as some bars insist on doing, always insist the pot is in front of you and visible at all times for inspection.

Another way to deal with cheating is to do what i do and that is to pay as you go, that way the only bill you pay is for the beer in hand which might save the embarrassment of an argument at "Check bill" time about how you haven’t really drank twenty Heineken.

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