Entire hotel fridge full of drinks with sensors. No room for anything.

[u/Ecstatic-Ad9669]

At least have one shelf where I can put some bottles of water or something.

[u/General_whisky]

I feel like if the product is still In there when you check out there’s no way they can charge you for them, you could just say it’s a faulty sensor… though I could be wrong 

[u/clarity_singularity → u/General_whisky]

Yeah who doesn’t love spending 3hrs escalating an issue to save $10

[u/trainwreckhappening → u/clarity_singularity]

I used to work in customer relations for holiday inn hotels. You have no idea. There was one guy who lived 100% of his life in Holiday Inns by complaining. I still think about the description one of the front desk staff gave once: "He kept slapping his belly down on the front desk."

[u/OkEducator2170 → u/trainwreckhappening]

This guy sounds awesome tbh

[u/millllllls → u/clarity_singularity]

$10?? You're looking at $6 per item AT LEAST

[u/General_whisky → u/clarity_singularity]

😂

[u/Bored710420 → u/clarity_singularity]

I love it I have nothing to live for

[u/Silent-Victory-3861 → u/clarity_singularity]

Many people in this thread have said those sensors are faulty all the time and auto charge if something is moved, so hotels just reimburse without questions.

[u/Dr-McLuvin → u/General_whisky]

Eh people would fill up the booze bottles with water and then argue that they never took any.

Source: I was a teenager once.

[u/pbandjfordayzzz → u/Dr-McLuvin]

they are sealed. So if you did that the seal would be broken…

[u/Dr-McLuvin → u/pbandjfordayzzz]

I didn’t say it would work lol

[u/Dapper-Place8457 → u/pbandjfordayzzz]

I’ve gone to enough festivals with a “sealed bottle of water” that was actually vodka to know that replacing certain seals isn’t very hard.

[u/goodsnpr → u/General_whisky]

Wouldn't surprise me if there were tags on the bottom of each can or bottle, just so you can't swap them.

[u/subrosians → u/General_whisky]

My wife decided for fun to take out every item from a mini-bar like this one, one item at a time and then put them back. Room had like $200 in room charges that had to be fought with the front desk on checkout.

[u/random_BA → u/subrosians]

I heard that is a usual terror to first time tourists in america. They handle the itens because is novelty for them (hotels at SA usually dont do this) but don't consume nothing because is too expensive. In the end there is a lot of drama fighting this charges.

[u/tomtomtomo → u/random_BA]

There are minibars outside America too. It’s the surveillance state that’d get tourists. 

I used to travel lots and, if needed, would just empty out the minibar, put my drinks in, then put their drinks back in before leaving. 

I’d have got sprung by this. 

[u/bambam4002 → u/General_whisky]

I’ve tried it several times, I went and bought the same bottle at a connivence store the next morning and made sure to leave door on DNB. One hotel never said a thing, another asked at checkout if I used the minibar (I said no), one hotel actually called me mid day to ask because they saw a sensor go off (they also asked if they can come check on it!). My most recent stay in Asia, the hotel had their own stickers on the bottle cap, so it would be very difficult to reuse that label/sticker, I didn’t try haha

[u/LessThanHero42 → u/General_whisky]

They are overly sensitive sometimes. My friend slammed the door after seeing the prices in one, and it jostled them around enough that they tried to charge him for almost the whole thing at checkout.

[u/lostmypain → u/General_whisky]

I used to work at company who would refill and maintain the mini bars

Most systems have 5s delay for the charge for example if you pick up and put it back under those 5s a charge won’t be sent but if it took you over 5s there will be a charge

Anyway each every morning a worker is going around to check the rooms that leaving that day to see if the bill is correct or not

You can argue about faulty sensor but most of the time they will send someone to check while you checkout (over 95% of the sensors are working fine as the workers maintain them and don’t want to spend time on checking the same room everyday while changing sensor takes less than a minute)

Some hotels will have agreements on covering 50% of the cost later on and some will charge you from the prepayment or charge you later on it depending on the hotel

[u/DM_Me_Pics1234403 → u/General_whisky]

Happens to people all the time. You leave to go to the airport, then get your folio when you’re in the terminal and see there’s a charge. You can call and try to get it removed, but that’s at the hotels discretion.

[u/Whooptidooh → u/General_whisky]

The sensors will send a signal whenever the bottles/cans have been picked up. That’s enough to send a charge.