NYC Light Tour Crooks

Above: Lights of New York City that I Googled. 

We went to New York City about a week before this past Christmas.   The reason we picked mid-December was for the Christmas lights.

Somewhere we saw an ad for a New York City tour at night to see the Lights.  We got reservations for a certain night. 

We were a little concerned after we got the reservations (which we paid for with a credit card) because of the weather.  It was cold and stormy for two days before the night we chose, but that night it was perfect.  It wasn’t rainy, windy, snowy, or cold.  Lucky us!

We had instructions where to meet the group.  It was at a bar directly across from the Ed Sullivan Theater (STEPHEN COLBERT SHOW).   It was just a couple of blocks away from our hotel.  We decided to walk to the bar.  We did.  But there was no bar.  It was a large coffee shop with “natural bean”.  However, when you key the name of the bar onto the system, they gave you the exact address we were standing in front of, but also added it is no longer there.  The bar used to be there, but not now.  Their directions were out of date, that should have been a clue.

Anna called the number and talked to the person she talked to before.  He said that tour was cancelled and they called and left a message.  We checked our messages, and that is true, he did call to cancel the tour.  We are just not savvy enough on texting to have seen the message.  The person also said credit would be issued to our credit card.

They didn’t.  It has been a month and still no credit.  I think it was a scam.

Yesterday we went to the credit union that manages the credit card used and formally filled out a form to dispute the charges.

I think that is part of the scheme:  To make reservations, accept a credit card payment, then cancel it and probably a lot of people don’t want to go to the trouble of disputing it. 

Crookes!