Multiple Names and Addresses for One Male Strip Club Location
There are only three actual male strip shows in New York City - That’s 3 physical locations. They are: 1) Hunkmania at Club Duvet 45 W.21st Street New York, NY 10010 2) Savage Men 199 Bowery Street New York City and 3) Manhattan Men 225 E Houston Street New York City. If you do a search on Google you’ll find see a ridiculous amount of names of shows, bogus addresses, side door addresses etc.
For example, the location on Houston Street has at last count 32 websites, satellite pages, names addresses and phone numbers. This simply causes confusion in the market place and gives our industry a bad name. Here’s how that works… Say you buy a show ticket for USA Hunks at 225 E Houston St. NYC and you go to the show. You go to that address only to find that you’ve been duped into the same USA Hunks show because… the Essex Street address is the side door to 225 E Houston St!
Brand Stealing
That same location has no trademarks for most of the names it uses. Google fails to police the search results as well as they should. Often time’s customers will buy tickets to the wrong show simply because the customer did not pay attention to the URL or web address from where they are buying from. It could be as simple as having a dash in the name, an extra letter or the city name following the brand name.
VIP Up-Sell Tactic
If you buy a general admission ticket to Houston St location they will make you stand outside until the show starts and pressure you into buying a VIP ticket to get in from the cold. After that you are directed to your “VIP” table aka… folding table, only to be told at 1030, only to get up from your folding table so they can get the club ready for its dance party patrons. Before you buy VIP ask EXACTLY what are you getting. Some of these prices can run as high $650 for folding tables!
Fire Hazard
Source at the Houston Street club tells me the legal occupancy is 308 excluding the folding tables and chairs cluttering the escape routes. With them the legal occupancy is considerably less. It is unconscionable that an operator would put the safety of its customers second to profit, but this is the case. Check the posted sign on the wall whenever you are in a venue. Note that the NYFD calculates a safe legal capacity without portable furniture like stages, folding tables and folding chairs. The legal capacity can be reduced by as much at 75% when an operator changes the design of the space with these portable items. Report unsafe conditions by dialing 311 immediately. They will send a fire inspector over to investigate within minutes.
Two Drink Minimum Scam
If the moment you walk in the door you get hit with a two drink minimum, be sure you compare it to the prices of the drinks inside the bar. Although two drink minimums are not a scam on their own you should be aware of how much drinks are in the club .vs what you pay for them in advance or at the door.
Hidden Charges
Before you buy tickets ask if there any hidden charges such as processing fees. The three clubs listed above all own their own website and there shouldn’t be any fees.
Phony “Review” Sites
Let’s get something straight. There is no team running around the city and writing reviews of the male strip shows and then putting up a website about it. It’s just another phony website that bad mouths all the competition with horrible reviews only to give themselves glorious reviews about their location and claim to be the best. This INCLUDES the reviews on CITYSEARCH or any other community site. They are all bull. Do not believe the good or bad reviews. These reviews are written by hired subcontractors in India. Indian subs work for as little as $2/hr. Their job is to create multiple identities, login and then post the reviews to these various websites. Do you really believe long winded favorable reviews with 5 stars one after the other? I love the negative reviews as they use words like “stinky” to describe the dancers at the competitor locations. They are all about directing your business to them. Ask your friends. You are bound to come across someone who’s been to one of these locations and they can give you a straight and honest answer.
