Don't get me wrong I remember some nights at NG where I blew $200 easily, but a grand seems excessive

It's extremely dumb

It's a platter, not a basket.

hedge said:

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I just can't imagine spending a grand just for a bottle of Tito's

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Again, it's for the table and the service and to be seen more than the actual alcohol. The simple solution if you don't want to spend that kind of money is don't go to those places.

hedge said:

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Don't get me wrong I remember some nights at NG where I blew $200 easily, but a grand seems excessive

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I don't feel like you're understanding this.

This is for a group. It's not 1 dude buying an entire bottle of vodka for himself. It's a group of people, or a baller that just wants chicks hanging out at his table.

ThunderCougarFalconBird said:

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$25,000 per Nebuchadnezzar of Veuve Clicquot NV is insane. That can be had for ~$2,500-3,000. https://www.premierchampagne.com/products/veuve-clicquot-brut-yellow-label-15l-nebuchadnezzar.html

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And a single 12oz bud light can be had for about $1.00. What is your point? Do you understand what mark up is?

Shakes the Clown said:

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Story time:

Whenever we played the Canes in Miami(Fran years, what a joke), my buddy and I went "clubbin' ". Whatever that meant to some mid 30 year old married dads. Like idiots we put on our best hawaiian shirts and khakis and our best flip flops. LOL.

We find this club near our hotel, we were early, like 9pm early - too early for South Beach clubs. Doorman says, you can't get in with flip flops. So we head back to the room, partake in some more ganja and put some different shoes on. Around 10, the line is forming and we go up to the doorman "remember us?". He lets us in, much to the dismay and boos of the 30 or so people in line.

Don't remember much, but there was a fashion show and we sat up close(not one of those fashion shows). So apparently, some of the younger clubbers thought we were some kind of "big shots" and had plenty of money. Everybody wanted to be our "friend". Several people asked who we were, we told them we were in finance and in town looking for some investments. My friend put the large bottle of Grey Goose on his Am Ex and everyone had a great time.

Next day, splitting headache and hungover AF. We were like "what happened last night"? He looks at his receipt and flipped out - $1800 - at least two large bottles of vodka. Obviously, not high-rollers like in the OP, but there was no way we had the funds to pay that. On top of that, we go to the rental car and I had scraped the front passenger side panel. Don't remember doing that! My buddy cancelled the Am Ex card and said it was stolen. Not our proudest moment, but we had some memories. Three months later, my insurance company called and I winded up paying some deductible for the minor damages to the car.

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At least the game was good. oh wait

My buddies and I could kill a bottle easily, we'd have to get multiple

hedge said:

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My buddies and I could kill a bottle easily, we'd have to get multiple

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One bottle will get you a table for 4-6 people. There are minimums that go up depending on the exclusivity of the club. But you're still not getting it.

Buying bottle service is like investing in crypto. You spend a lot of money to buy something that is essentially worthless, or of negligable value relative to the purchase transaction, because others percieve it to have a greatly inflated value.

In crypto, you exchange that inflated value you've obtained for (hopefully) more dollars than you paid to people who believe in the inflated value of the coin.

In clubs you exchange the inflated value of your bottle and table for the "company" of women who value of the perceived social status your bottle/table confers upon you.

In either transaction, the actual measurable value of the item purchased is totally irrelevant to the transaction as a whole.

Makes sense now

Sea Speed said:

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Theft and drunk driving

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agdaddy04 said:

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Is that second one from 2011?

Also, the $825 for Tito's would bother me more than the $75 chicken tender platter.

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On NYE 2012 we were at a beach party in Dubai and after losing my buzz waiting in line at the bar for 40 minutes to get one drink, I made an executive decision to just buy a bottle. I didn't do any conversion, just forked over the cash and took my 750ml bottle of Absolut and went on my way. Of course we didn't have any mixers, so our group of 4 just ended up sitting on the beach drinking straight out of the bottle. The next morning I realized that I'd spent $700USD on that bottle. I've still not lived that down.

the girls that walk up to the table better be at minimum a 10/10 and i better be guaranteed a gluck gluck 3000

aglaohfour said:

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agdaddy04 said:

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Is that second one from 2011?

Also, the $825 for Tito's would bother me more than the $75 chicken tender platter.

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On NYE 2012 we were at a beach party in Dubai and after losing my buzz waiting in line at the bar for 40 minutes to get one drink, I made an executive decision to just buy a bottle. I didn't do any conversion, just forked over the cash and took my 750ml bottle of Absolut and went on my way. Of course we didn't have any mixers, so our group of 4 just ended up sitting on the beach drinking straight out of the bottle. The next morning I realized that I'd spent $700USD on that bottle. I've still not lived that down.

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you didn't realize you spent $700 on the bottle at the time you handed over $700 in cash?

No, I didn't. It was maybe 2500 AED (which never felt like real money the whole time I lived there anyway) and total chaos going on around me so I didn't even try to do the conversion.

Sounds like you didn't actually lose your buzz.