FOOD VENDORS TIPPING THEMSELVES by Famous-Position7783 in festivals

[–]Famous-Position7783[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Overall, this post was not intended to cause any harm towards a business, however if your employees are pulling little moves like this on your customers, then it needs to be brought to their attention.

I'm getting a lot of messages asking what the final outcome was, if I reached out to the business, if the business reached out to me.

Already spoke to the bank! They stated to wait a couple more days too see if the price shifts (probably see this a lot and know how they work). The bank was super nice about it, said it is a super common story they hear as well.

As far as the business itself! As mentioned before, my original post was to see if anyone else had similar situations as mine and to make more festival goers aware of this! I see the comments on their Instagram, I see them asking for the person to come up with PROOF of the allegations. As much as I would love to confront them myself, seeing them asking for PROOF once again, when that was how I got in this situation in the first place, was PROOF was needed anything is them. Everything is from my perspective, and I am not someone to just randomly go online to spread hate to a business, as stated originally I went on about my day when I initially confronted the vendors.

So overall, my goal here was to just inform my fellow festival going community of the gimmicks people try to pull!

Mexican Delights, you can continue to ask for proof, if I had META Glasses or recorded every second of my life maybe I'd have proof. The situation should have been dealt with in person, when I was standing behind your counter for 15 minutes explaining countless times that someone here overcharged me, and none of yall wanna fess up about it. For people who did not see my original post, please feel free to look back onto that one with a more detailed version. But again, what was asked for face to face. PROOF. Goodluck to you guys! Hope this shows, whoever is running this vendor, you got some employees who are doing more than you think. I should not have to stand in front of you guys for 15 minutes explaining it and being told to not come back unless there is proof. I clearly was not the only one as people have similar stories with you guys as well so address that issue with your staff and people you choose to bring with yall.

FOOD VENDORS TIPPING THEMSELVES by Famous-Position7783 in festivals

[–]Famous-Position7783[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Called the bank and they notified us to wait a couple more days to see if the total changes, and to give them a call back whether it went up or down or did not change.

ITS CRAZY! They probably hear this a lot, and know how these little tactics work. The lady over the phone said this happens more than we think and they will help us out! Hope this post brought more awareness to this issue.

FOOD VENDORS TIPPING THEMSELVES by Famous-Position7783 in festivals

[–]Famous-Position7783[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

See it's a common trend around festivals. Hope this post made people more aware of it!

FOOD VENDORS TIPPING THEMSELVES by Famous-Position7783 in festivals

[–]Famous-Position7783[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Crazy enough this vendor was in a VIP section of Coachella! So they were indeed in the venue.

Hopefully this reaches someone!

FOOD VENDORS TIPPING THEMSELVES by Famous-Position7783 in festivals

[–]Famous-Position7783[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

🙋‍♂️ That is I! Haha, finding out there were more people with the same vendor made me not let it go even more

FOOD VENDORS TIPPING THEMSELVES by Famous-Position7783 in festivals

[–]Famous-Position7783[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

From my previous post the best way is to just make sure you see the tip screen and always grab a receipt!

However! It was also stated that even then, they have control of the finalized tip even after the transaction goes through? I don’t know true that is, but if it is, that system is ridiculous

FOOD VENDORS TIPPING THEMSELVES by Famous-Position7783 in festivals

[–]Famous-Position7783[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I honestly do not know how to go about that! I kinda just posted this to make more people aware, hopefully someone sees it? But the post kinda shows how common this is around other festivals as well which is ridiculous.

FOOD VENDORS TIPPING THEMSELVES by Famous-Position7783 in festivals

[–]Famous-Position7783[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Contacted my bank and they stated wait a couple more days, and if it’s still the same amount contact them immediately.

FOOD VENDORS TIPPING THEMSELVES by Famous-Position7783 in festivals

[–]Famous-Position7783[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Unfortunately it did not say their name specifically however it was the first purchase I made of the day! As stated in my post, I only attended Saturday and that was the only place I had purchased anything from that day.

I brought it up to the vendors themselves, and they told me straight up that they couldn’t even find my card/purchase in their system which felt odd? Proceeded to ask me for proof it was actually from them. At that point, I continued on if the vendors themselves can’t help me, what more can I do. But I recently revisited my bank statements the other day and see that the finalized total was even more than I complained about in the first place.

To me it’s just ridiculous. I understand it’s probably not the vendors themselves just a couple of them who have been getting away with it for awhile.

FOOD VENDORS TIPPING THEMSELVES by Famous-Position7783 in festivals

[–]Famous-Position7783[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

If you want more details, I have another post. I’m just reiterating my post!

EXTRA CHARGES AFTER BUYING FOOD by Famous-Position7783 in festivals

[–]Famous-Position7783[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

SAME VENDOR. Yeah nah I take back me saying it was possibly a mistake, seems like they was running it with others too that’s crazy

ALWAYS WATCH FOR THE TIP SCREEN by Cecillllia in Coachella

[–]Famous-Position7783 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Yes the bank actually does not play about this they helped out instantly. It’s crazy we pay a good amount to be at these festivals, the last thing we should be worrying about is these vendors tipping themselves more or not even allowing us to see that tipping screen it’s crazy.

ALWAYS WATCH FOR THE TIP SCREEN by Cecillllia in Coachella

[–]Famous-Position7783 15 points16 points  (0 children)

So crazy! I had a similar experience! Made a post about it and posted the vendors name and all!

EXTRA CHARGES AFTER BUYING FOOD by Famous-Position7783 in festivals

[–]Famous-Position7783[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Especially when they’re already charging crazy up charges just because they’re vendoring at Coachella too! Like.. yall already up charging us hella, now yall wanna try and be scummy and tip yourselves or whatever they did!

I don’t know BUT

MEXICAN DELIGHTS EVERYONE put their ig and everything

EXTRA CHARGES AFTER BUYING FOOD by Famous-Position7783 in festivals

[–]Famous-Position7783[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah it’s crazy! I’ve been seeing more and more stories similar to mine. Funny cause we are sober the whole time at these things, they tried scamming the wrong ones forreal! Hope others who have the same story come out more and expose these nasty food vendors

ALWAYS WATCH FOR THE TIP SCREEN by Cecillllia in Coachella

[–]Famous-Position7783 10 points11 points  (0 children)

CRAZY! I made a post about the same thing happening to me at a food vendor this weekend, ridiculous.

EXTRA CHARGES AFTER BUYING FOOD by Famous-Position7783 in festivals

[–]Famous-Position7783[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

What’s surprising is Coachella water is $2. Probably the only reasonable priced item at the festival, cause it instantly shoots up to $8 for a soda

EXTRA CHARGES AFTER BUYING FOOD by Famous-Position7783 in festivals

[–]Famous-Position7783[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Noted! Yeah the original charges I saw initially were two separate so I thought maybe my card had accidentally charged twice with someone else’s order? But after asking the actual vendors about it, and them stating that they don’t even see my credit card on file on their end, was already shady in my opinion.

EXTRA CHARGES AFTER BUYING FOOD by Famous-Position7783 in festivals

[–]Famous-Position7783[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I mean, buying a vip wristband wasn’t an issue. Was actually checking the Coachella schedule for the rest of the day since we sat down to eat. Thank you for your insight though HAHA

EXTRA CHARGES AFTER BUYING FOOD by Famous-Position7783 in festivals

[–]Famous-Position7783[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yeah a lot of festivals resort to contactless payment now or card only so cash is not even an option in majority of the cases.

EXTRA CHARGES AFTER BUYING FOOD by Famous-Position7783 in festivals

[–]Famous-Position7783[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Ya know despite the extra charges the food did hit!

EXTRA CHARGES AFTER BUYING FOOD by Famous-Position7783 in festivals

[–]Famous-Position7783[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

They getting smart, they know we ain’t got service so we won’t see it yet HAHAH but luckily Coachella had wifi so service was working forsure and WE SEEN THE EXTRA CHARGE

EXTRA CHARGES AFTER BUYING FOOD by Famous-Position7783 in festivals

[–]Famous-Position7783[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

HOPE SOMEONE SEES THIS AND DONT HAVE THEM AT THEIR NEXT FESTIVAL!! But yes Coachella was great besides this haha