Caution: Unfair Event Business Venue Ahead
I recently had a run-in with a local business. I'd bought tickets for an event for our birthdays (my husband and I are a day apart), at a venue I'd always trusted. Then my husband unexpectedly had to go out of town on business that weekend. Maybe it was star-crossed from the beginning. I took a friend instead and we had a lovely dinner outdoors at a downtown restaurant, then on to the concert. We probably should have guessed something was up when we saw all the limos outside and the fact that it was a well-heeled crowd. The doors opened and we went in -- and climbed and climbed and climbed to our seats in the nosebleed section (picking them out online, they hadn't seemed nearly as high!). But, my bad. We expected there to be some warm-up group, but two TV stars took the stage. OK. We figured they were there to say a few words before the event. No, they went on and on about some charity and then began a very upscale auction ($5,000 for dinner at a famou...