This was the most unorganized mess that I have ever attended. The staff was rude and uncanny. I had to take the elevator up to the Hotel Pennsylvania Gold Ballroom. As I couldn't do the stairs because of my knees. Upon presenting my ID the young man told me to go to the table and show my ID. Upon doing so this young lady ran after me like I was stealing her moment and told me that I had jumped the line and as me to go back downstairs and come up the steps. I told her that I couldn't do the stairs and she told me to go back to the front of the line and wait. I patiently went back to the front of the line and the young man sent me back to the table after allowing several ladies to go to the table and advised me to show my ID. Upon doing so the same lady chased me again and screamed "Didn't I tell you to wait on line" I told her that I did and the young man told me to go ahead and go to the table. I was handed this pink pouch with panties ten sizes too small. This event was nothing like Shecky's. Upon entering you were handed a empty bag at the table. The items that the vendors were selling was very expensive and was garbage. I went in and bounced right out. I didn't stay for ten minutes. I didn't bother to even get a drink. What was the VIP Shopping Experience? If I paid the regular price I would have been pissed. This moment at Sassy City Chicks was priceless, never to be done again. I never been so humiliated.

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I left the event after 20 minutes. There were very few vendors and the quality of vendors was very low. I was very disappointed and will not be attending another Sassy City Chicks events.

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My friend and I attended the Sassy City Chicks Fashion Bash last night (12/2/09), and I am still a bit in shock from the whole experience. This was truly one of the worst events that I have been to in a long while. The event itself was ridiculous. How something can be called a “Fashion Bash” when all of ten vendors show up and the items being sold look cheaper than the ticket price itself, I have no clue; but the worst thing that attendees had to deal with was the lack of even semi-decent customer service. My friend and I both had VIP tickets but, according to the drunk and belligerent bouncer in the lobby, there was no difference between VIP tickets and regular ones. Same line = too bad. They had all the attendees lined up on the stairs - and it was so hot. The heat + the wait was making for some extremely cranky women. So a couple of the attendees went to ask the bouncer some questions. He then started cursing and yelling at them as they walked away from him. Yeah...the customer service went down from there.

Eventually my friend and I, along with a few other ladies, got pretty fed up, decided to bypass the bouncer's complete idiocy and seek out a manager. We had been waiting for about 25 minutes or so, but some people had been waiting for an hour or more. Ridiculous! We walked upstairs only to be met with another less drunk, more surly and belligerent bouncer who reiterated that there was no difference between the $3 tickets and the $20 VIP tickets, and then passed us off to a manager (there was no real way to know if she was a manager or not as she never identified herself before looking down at us and belting out “What do you want?”). She spoke to the whole group yet continued to stare at me and, I have to tell you...I wasn't having it. I've had my limit of people with supersized egos and disrespectful attitudes for the week and was done. I don't know what look she saw in my eyes, but she stopped trying to BS us and yelled out "Do you want to get in here?! Is that what you want? Is it?!" I simply said "Yes". No need for both of us to look insane. She was acting silly and crazy enough for three all on her own.

She walked us over to the check in table and told them to check us in, while the same more surly/belligerent bouncer stomped over, got in her face and said "Do you see what you did? Now you did this...you let them in...and now we have more people demanding to be let in. You did this!" Yeah, we walked away at that point. I haven't been to an event that disorganized in a long time. They got the point though and started to let people in more quickly after that; and I realized that they had purposely been keeping the line moving at such a slow pace not due to any fire or building capacity regulations, but because they were trying to make the event seem more thrilling than it was. They were having people wait on the stairs in the heat just to make the event seem cool. It wasn’t. Every woman that I spoke to was done with it within 10 minutes – if that. But, seriously, what more can you expect from an event that gives away a “gift bag” containing a tin of eye shadow, a pair of underwear (size small, of course) and a package of Colgate Wisps toothbrushes? The bag containing the items was even one of those dollar store drawstring gift bags that you can get in a dozen-for-a-dollar package. Oh, I almost forgot, you also got a half crushed bag of Pop Chips. My friend had to ask for hers, and they actually seemed reluctant to hand it over!

Anyway, as I said the event itself sucked. Many people were expecting a Shecky’s level event, but even if you were just expecting a halfway decent experience, you were disappointed. The evening was just not worth it at all. The pictures pretty much show the entire thing as everything fit in one room and a lobby. I’ll stick with Shecky’s. They redeemed themselves the second time around in a major way; but this one? This one I’m not even wasting any second chances on. I feel sorry for the people who paid full price!

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not enough vendors ...

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