“They basically gave the middle finger to their database … Once an offer has been extended and redeemed, I don’t think you can welsh on it.” — Fine Point Group founder Randall Fine, on Sheldon Adelson‘s retroactive revocation of comps at Venelazzo. The CEO’s single-digit salute to the Vegas market has inspired a Facebook page, among other forms of online pushback.
Fun with Captcha: For those who enjoy trying to craft sentences from “Captcha” phrases on the S&G “Comments” page, one of today’s is “judex Edward.” This suggests a piquant twist on the Latin liturgy for the dead: “Judex Edward cum sedebit, Quidquid latet apparebit …“
The “raised finger” works both ways. I “salute” Sheldon.
I give Adelson some credit for having the worst 25 cent video poker pay scales I have ever seen. Cobwebs block access to the slot where you put your bills through. I feel as welcome in Venetian as a union member would going on Fox News. It’s certainly his right to cater to folks who are way less concerned with losing their hard-earned than myself, but it would seem at some point he would see that Vegas has changed in the last ten years. Twenty five dollar rooms one block away from his high roller mecca will eventually impact his properties, and not in a good economic way. Drunk conventioneers seem to be his new target demographic, certainly not players with some sense of value…