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Source: KOMU
Herdeg wasn't alone. The club's co-managing partner, Matt Istwan, said the club has lost 10 to 15 percent of its business because of a new policy that established a permanent ban list. Istwan said the club bought ID scanners to help detect fake IDs. The carding machines also store basic information like names, dates of birth, driver's license numbers and addresses.
With the new machines, the club can flag driver's licenses for a number of reasons and put them on the permanent ban list. This could happen if a customer was asked to leave or refused service during a previous visit, if any member of a customer's party was asked to leave or refused service or if a customer has a criminal background.
In Herdeg's case, she had been with a group during a previous visit that had caused trouble. Her ID, along with everyone else's in the group, was flagged and the club looked her up on Missouri's Case.net, an online legal database. Herdeg had a misdemeanor for selling alochol to a minor in 2011 and therefore, Herdeg couldn't return to Déjà Vu. Herdeg said she worked at a convenience store and she had checked the minor's ID quickly and made a mistake when she was subtracting the numbers. She said she paid her dues and moved on from the incident.
"She probably was not one of these threats. But to be fair to the system we have in place, to be consistent with what we have in place, to avoid the possibility of a law suit that says we're discriminating against age, religion or sex, we said this is the standards we have in place and unfortunately, she met the standards," said Istwan.
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pipoman
(16,038 posts)no_hypocrisy
(46,297 posts)in order to offer a policy to the club. Nothing about that in the article.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)I don't see a problem with this.
She was in a group that got kicked out before, and they have no obligation to let her back in.
MadHound
(34,179 posts)Get her away from the Vu and out to some of the other, much better clubs in town. It amazes me that the Vu has survived for thirty plus years, being a bad dance club, and now transforming itself into a bad comedy club.
treestar
(82,383 posts)I could see a ban on certain people for a certain time, but at some point, banning people for being with other people - and checking IDs like that, is going to inspire people to seek entertainment elsewhere.
MadHound
(34,179 posts)It manages to continue because it caters to the dumb sorority and fraternity groups.
treestar
(82,383 posts)And "exclusivity" is always a selling point for clubs. Yep, you have a good point there.
MadHound
(34,179 posts)Living near Columbia and growing up there. It absolutely amazes me what some people will fall for if there is a certain cache about a place. Bad drinks, bad service, bad entertainment, buy hey, it's supposedly the cool place to be
You're right, a new crop of suckers every year, and by the time the old ones figure out that they've been had, hey, they've graduated and moved on.
pstokely
(10,533 posts)pstokely
(10,533 posts)They won't take cash, they think they people they are trying to keep out does not have plastic
http://www.kshb.com/dpp/news/local_news/new-changes-and-the-power-and-light-district-has-people-talking
MadHound
(34,179 posts)They give out credit and debit cards like candy at a parade.
But maybe some enterprising person wanting to make a point will sue, since cash is legally good for all debts public and private.
pstokely
(10,533 posts)it works to keep out "those people"
MadHound
(34,179 posts)It has worked before, it can work again.
obamanut2012
(26,181 posts)No way in hell I would trust a club to protect the info their gadget scans and keeps.