DH lost Credit card roulette...

[Anonymous]

I don’t play this anymore. Maybe with new smooth cards but I can cheat while picking out cards based on how they feel so anyone can.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For those saying they never have heard of it...I waited tables for decades on and off and had multiple groups play CC roulette and it sucks for the server because whoever gets pulled is usually salty. The worst is when they make the server do it. You can see it in their face. It has happened more than once that a really flush looking group ends up having a CC declined. I usually ended up playing their games right back and said I choose the one that ends with a 0 or other number so it was truly random. Picking it is...not. That means the server is the one who gets the nastiness when the loser (or winner?) gets selected.
The types who order multiple rounds of drinks, bottles of wine, spend all night taking up the table, want to joke around and make awkward conversation with the servers by pulling them into their group conversations/arguments. Stay out all night because they have babysitters and its their first time out in months...not sure who is more drunk, the women (have trouble walking the shoes they arrived in) or men (different shades of red and sweaty). Typically, tables of white suburban couples.

Men tend to play it as well but at the bar or in smaller groups. A check for 4 dudes is different than a check for 4 couples, especially when all of them have expensive preferences.

IMO just pick up the check for the group (to really show the BDE) or everyone just split the check.

Thanks for explaining, pp. I bet those salty winners are poor tippers.

[Anonymous]

A $385 total restaurant tab for several couples? Now I know it's a troll.

[Anonymous]

I surprised such a learned crowd doesn’t know what credit card roulette is, it’s not new. Not sure what to tell you OP, that’s embarrassing. Good luck with it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Credit card roulette was suggested by whom to pay for the whole check? Never had to play this stupid game because we split the check or take turns when eating with friends.

+1. I would never dream of doing this.

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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:What is credit card roulette? And why is your bigger problem embarrassment rather that financial?

Everyone puts a credit or debit card out and the waiter picks one to pay the whole check.

WTF?! WHO does that?!

There’s also versions where it’s whoever looks at their cell phone first or whoever gets the first phone call. Lots of dumb versions to this game.

[Anonymous]

No one was out last night in this weather. Fake post

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So we were out with the rest of the neighborhood moms and dads last night and played a game of credit card roulette

My husband unfortunately was picked and could not pay because he apparently is $4,500 over the credit limit

I was embarrassed, I was mortified and I don't know if I can show my face after he told me to my face during dinner after his card got declined.

What should I do? I had no idea this was a thing and keeping financial information from me is a huge red flag.

Troll

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Anonymous wrote:What credit card is going to let somebody exceed the credit limit by $4500?

This story is fishy.

NP here. It happened to me. I was able to exceed my credit card by 7k before they started declining transactions.

OP, you say you didn't know until later when your husband told you he wasn't able to pay. How is that possible? You were all out together. So the card was declined and then what? What happened that you assumed he ended up paying?

[Anonymous]

This didn’t happen.

[Anonymous]

Who had a credit card machine at a house gathering and won’t this look like a taxable IRS gift?

Most credit cards have limits if $2-10k so to allegedly go over that by $4.5k for an imaginary game at someone’s house is BS.

And no one would do a $500-1000 per person restaurant bill this way. Thats all a lie. Host and invitee should pay if everyone ran up the restaurant bill like lunatics.

[Anonymous]

I'm not surprised that so many on here are saying they'd never play that game, etc. Not the adventurous types here.

I do it sometimes when I'm out with the guys. We all can easily afford it, so no one is worrying over a bar tab.

What's fishy here is OP says the bill was about $400 but refers to being $4,500 over the limit. The card machine just says declined and makes no mention of limit.

Also, could it have been some credit card fraud a day or two before and that caused the balance to go up so high? OP needs to troll better.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I surprised such a learned crowd doesn’t know what credit card roulette is, it’s not new. Not sure what to tell you OP, that’s embarrassing. Good luck with it.

I was the pp who provided the definition. I had to google it. Never heard of it before in my life and I'm 60.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here, allow me to answer these questions...

So this game was done at the request of one of our friends. My husband handles all of our finances, I let him deal with that.

We each have our own separate credit cards but I am not aware of what he owes on his until he told me. The total bill for the evening was roughly $385.

For those who are not aware this is an actual game and we have played it before but he has never once been selected and I think he assumed that he wouldn't be selected this time and that's why there was a lot of shock when the card came back declined.

I have heard of this game, but you should probably never agree to it unless you are prepared to pay. But, I think this is less about the game and more about your husband being very bad about finances and in charge of your family finances. It sucks, but you need to get involved if not take over.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Who had a credit card machine at a house gathering and won’t this look like a taxable IRS gift?

Most credit cards have limits if $2-10k so to allegedly go over that by $4.5k for an imaginary game at someone’s house is BS.

And no one would do a $500-1000 per person restaurant bill this way. Thats all a lie. Host and invitee should pay if everyone ran up the restaurant bill like lunatics.

Where did OP say it was a house gathering? She said they were out with the neighborhood moms and dads.