A couple of months back I went to Las Vegas to celebrate my cousin's batchelor party with a fellow cousin and 5 of their friends, several of whom are mutual friends.

One of the days we were there, we went to the Hard Rock to chill by the pool. I had no intention of going, but a buddy talked me into doing it by saying "If we all put in $90 dollars, we get are own personal cabana, and are own personal waitress.Since I don't gamble, I was just going to spend my day in our room at the Cosmopolitan watching TV. So I said fuck it, bought some sandals, and went with them.

Some of our/their buddies got there 20 mins before us and they had already starting racking up an impressive tab. I usualy love to drink, but since it was 1PM and hot as hell outside, I just had a budlight, and a glass of booze punch. Well after an hour, they are still ordering shots/drinks at a fast rate, ther game plan was to by shots for broads inorder to try to get laid, which never worked out for them  sadly enough.

Anyways, one of guys gets really drunk and calls the waitress over, he asks how much a bottle of Patron is, she says $450, he says "Fuck it, get me one". All of us were shocked and we told him not to do it, but he insisted. So she comes back with the bottle, and he asks how much a bottle of Johnny Walker Black is, she says $500. At that point we all surronded him and told him that he is crazy and to not even think of ordering it. Of course he declares that he's been saving up for 6 months and doesn't give a fuck, so he places the order.

They keep trying to hand out booze to entice broads, for the next hour and proceed to get pretty trashed. The one that ordered the bottles got so trashed, me and one of my cousins had to carry him out of the Hard Rock and escort him to the 58th floor of the hotel. At that point, I volunteered to stay behind to make sure he didn't die. So my cousin went back to join the party.

About 2hrs later they show up, trashed, and the one who opened the tab and ordered most of the drinks lost his wallet so of course he was in a horrible mood. Later on, the subject comes up about the total amount spent, though they had said we were going to spend $90 each, due to all the shots it came out to a lot more. To make matters worse, though the guy who ordered the bottles, admitted that he was responsible and was willing to cover the $950 on his own. The dude who put the entire tab on his card, insisted that we would all help pay. While several of us did not agree with that, we didn't say anything at the time in order to not ruin the trip.

So a week after the trip, he texts me asking me about the money, so I take out $100 a give it to a buddy to give to him, ever since then whenever I see him he makes comments like “ yeah let me know when you have the rest of my money”, which I just generally blow off.

He texted me about an hour ago saying he needs me to deposit $170 into his account. Out of principle I feel like I owe him nothing more. I had one bud light, one mixed drink, and I made one Johnny and water with the bottle our buddy ordered. Aside from that I had a couple of buffalo wings and a slice of pizza from the platter we ordered.  I myself ordered nothing, and the guy that is demanding the money is responsible for drinking and handing out most of the bottles.

So would I be wrong to tell him to fuck off?

I'd tell him to ask that guy who got fucked up to pay his own tab.

Ditto, pay his own tab

I assume you threw in the $90 originally needed to be part of the personal cabana.

If so, I would explain to him politely and courteously that you've already paid in more money than what you ordered would've cost.

If that's not good enough and he gets shitty, then tell him to fuck off.  JMO.

EDIT: and I agree with Undefined.  The guy that got trashed can clean up his own mess.

I avoid these situations by not having any friends.

I have seen the Mr. big shot types a lot.
Pay him what you think is fair and move on.
If he doesn't like it, tough shit for him...he wanted to order it all.

I would explain to him exactly what you drank/ate, and pay for that only.  If he gives you shit, and he probably will from the sound of things, I would tell him to eff himself.

Tell the moron that if you play silly games, you win silly prizes...

Not cheap, but if you ordered $40 worth of shit..

He knows he's wrong to expect more from you, but he's still trying to hit you up for the money because it can't hurt.

Don't be a pushover.

IMO you would be in the wrong. By not speaking up, you made an implicit agreement to the proposal. I don't see how it would have "ruined" anything had you said "I don't think so" at the time, bit it sure is now.

"Lol. Ya right dude. I had a beer and two drinks lol."

Tell him to pick a testicle to suck.








 

sounds kinda communistic, don't it?

The $90.00 only bought you a ticket to the party. If you paid for your own drinks during that party, you owe nothing. If those drinks were on a tab, you owe for those drinks and a tip.

I hope everyone learned a lesson.

you should have spoke up when the guy who paid the tab volunteered your money.

Your kind of a dick to go back on it now but i would maybe talk to the guy that got all fucked up and ordered the bottles and ask him to pay your part...

I never understood ordering a bottle at the clubs here, walk out the casino or club and go get the same bottle for $30 across the street.

Good way to get girls back to your room too

No the $90 was to the tab, because they said that's all we were going to put in, and I actually ended up giving him $100. Once again I myself ordered nothing, the beer came from a bucket my cousin ordered, as did the punch.

What also pisses me off, is that while I was in the hotel making sure his buddy didn't die, he was still at the pool ordering god knows what.

I mean no disrespect by this but I think it totally depends on how good these friends are and how much $170 is to you.  I have a few friends that I would spend a month's pay on and never ask for anything about it, but being good friends it would work itself out one way or another.

But, I also have acquaintances that I wouldn't give more than $5.

PS, the CC guy should not have made that decision for everyone.  He should be talking to the big spender.

 

this.

 

 

I see this shit all the time as a bartender. As long as you did not agree to equally split the tab, you don't owe any more than what you ordered plus a percentage for tip. And from the sound of it, the $100 you pitched already should be more than adequate. Tell the guy to get fucked.

 

Nope, he friends with my cousins, I've only hung out with him a handfull of times before. I've told my cousins and some of the guys who were there my thoughts, and they agree I shouldn't have to pay anymore.

He's an idiot, and you should have left as soon as he started his drunken stupidity.  

 

This.  You agreed to it by not speaking up.

TL:DR

i'm going to go with "probably"

Ditto.

You paid your share too bad for the rest of the drunks.

Tell him to fuck of and stop brushing it off...

 

I'm from Vegas, therefor I'm the authority here


You're in the right. You agreed on $90 (which is a pretty reasonable and typical arrangement for chilling at a cabana). Drunk-ass decided to go baller status, you guys gave him a chance to check himself and he went for it anyway.

He had fun, he did what he wanted, and he knew the consequences. Tell credit card boy to quit being a little bitch, and to chase the money down from the man who said he would cover it, twice.
If you had been pouring shots out of those bottles, than I would feel differently. But you made your choice to not blow wads of cash, and drank accordingly.




And for future reference, NEVER pay full price for bottles. You have a group of 8 people, you speak with a VIP host ahead of time, make up some shit about a bachelor party, and ask what they can do for you.
85% you will get a discount, 2-1 or half-price bottles, free cabana with a minimum purchase, etc. Make it 5 chicks and 3 dudes, and that first bottle will be free with some sort of food minimum.

You are right and wrong

Right in that you shouldn't have to pay his bar tab

Wrong for wanting to stay in your hotel room watching TV in Vegas just because you don't gamble.  Too much cool stuff to see and do in Vegas that doesn't involve gambling or even spending a lot of money.

IMO, there's no downside to being courteous until you have a reason not to.

I would start out being polite, courteous, but firm.  If he gets a case of the ass and wants to be that way about it, tell him to FOAD.

if he's a friend, give him the money and always ask for separate checks in the future.

Cabana's cost money and they usually come with a hefty minimum order amount. If they said the $90.00 included drinks, they lied. Cabana's at Rehab cost decent coin, and when I was in Vegas we all coughed up $200.00 and that didn't include food or drinks, we had 8 guys go in on $200.00 each just for the cabana (the tip was 30% and mandatory). We had a pretty good spot and I know six of the guys got laid that night. I left early and my total was around $450.00, I bought a front of the shelf bottle for the groom to be. I'm cheap, and Darcy's info would have been good to know at the time.

If I went to a bachelor party in Vegas and only found myself out $270 bucks, I'd be thrilled.  Hell, I'd assume I must have won big at a table game at some point in the night.

If you decide to pool together on a tab, you sealed your fate right at that moment.  Live and learn, but don't stiff.

this comes up a lot at bottle service places.




























 

I think you failed a little by blowing it off for so long and not squashing it right away.  

I'm planning a bachelor party in Vegas at the moment

You only agreed to $90, and maybe the cost of your drinks.  You are not in the wrong.

$500 for a fifth? What a fucking ripoff.

BINGO!

Proper response was at the time of the party.  

"Too rich for my blood.  I'm cashing out.  Here's my $90 Bro.  Hell, here's an extra $20 for getting to watch everybody act the fool, but I'm out."

So did you pay 190 or 100 total?

If you agreed to pay 90 for drinks and the spot or the spot and you pay for your own drinks then your good, you paid 100. Tell him you already paid your share and he needs to redo his math. Did you ask him where he came up with you owing him 170?

Now I see the part in red where he insisted you all help pay, you did not agree but did not speak up. At that time you should have said no thanks Ill pass on this little party. You did not and did not speak up, you would owe money.

 

There was no entrance fee, the only thing was that we had to have a tab of at least $600, there was 8 of us so $90 was determined to be the amount everybody was going to pitch in.

Of course certain people got drunk and started running the tab up without consulting the rest of the group. If he would have said, guys we reached the $600 mark, people would have either stopped drinking, or opened up  separate tabs. Since I never ordered anything myself, it wouldn't have been an issue for me.

If you already paid $100 then tell him to FO and get the guy who ordered all the shit to step up and pay, being drunk doesn't give him a pass for being stupid.

FIFY

We did that for Club Surrender,which we went to the following night. Once again, we all agreed to pay $240 in order to get table/bottle service, and once again we went over the agreed upon limit. Difference is that my date and I drank a good amount (as did everybody else) so I had no problem paying more, I actually ended up paying $320 on the spot instead, but didn't care because I had a fantastic time.

Yeah me too.
I'm kind of tired, but from what I gathered your friend seems like an idiot. In no way would I ever give him any more than $90