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Had a board meeting yesterday for the startup I'm involved with. We booked a board room at a fancy hotel. The room itself was $380 for 2.5 hours. About what we expected. I asked if they had AV facilities, to which they said they did. Checked it out the day before...it was just an old plasma TV with an HDMI cable.
The woman at the hotel sent me an email saying it would be $450 for use of the "AV equipment" as it was all managed by an external "IT company". Get fucked I said (in my head) and politely declined.
During the meeting we ordered 6 coffees...then 4 plates of sandwiches. They came out as the thin soldier type sandwiches on white bread you'd get from the supermarket. They were fine...until the farking bill came through.
They wanted an EXTRA $440
I called the woman in charge and she gave some BS that they charge by time for the food service. I told her if I had known that was the case, I would have ordered 100 coffees and 50 plates of food!
So we're currently in dispute.
- Ridiculous!OBBTKN
- shameless. How do people have the balls to charge like that? I guess they just get used to it.Fax_Benson
- What has become of this world? I even complain about 7.50€ for a 0.33l beer in Paris but your coffee was much more expensive...SimonFFM
- Why did you need the hotel, it's all image. You could have a board meeting at a park picnic table. Cost = $0. The money saved, the company can invest in growth.shapesalad
- Once a company grows beyond 1 frugal entrepreneur the money drains like you're using a sieve for a bucket.shapesalad
- board meeting, fancy hotel, you expected hookers and cocaine for that price?********
- hotel isn't just image, it's a clean quiet space with amenities at a good price. They saw that it was a business meeting and realized they want to milk youmonospaced
- Should have booked the Four Seasons.Akagiyama
- AUD$140 would seem a much more appropriate - if nonetheless absolutely disgusting rip-off, but hey - price for this sort of thing. $440 is obsceneNairn