How Many People In Sault Ste Marie Need to Get a Grip?

[SLM]

Pretty much everybody who complained about this. Are people really that easily offended? Apparently so.

Classical fans find sex shop charges on bank statements

By Brian Kelly, QMI Agency

SAULT STE. MARIE, Ont. — Classical music fans were not amused when purchases made at a recent Sault Symphony Orchestra fundraiser appeared on bank statements as being made at a city sex shop.
About $1,100 in purchases, including food and silent auction items won, were made during Musicfest using a debit machine that was loaned to the symphony by Amore.
The business sells adult DVDs, lingerie and sex toys. It’s owned by Betts MacKenzie, a symphony board member.
“We never had a debit machine before so were really happy to have one this time around,” said Robin Wilson, the symphony’s co-ordinator of projects, programs and grants.
“We’re too poor to be able to afford one and all the fees involved with it.”
It “never really entered our minds” that banking statements would list Amore as the purchase point, Wilson said.

“It was quite a shock to us when people seemed to be upset by this,” she said.
Wilson said the business has been receiving a lot of negative publicity and wanted to set the record straight, that MacKenzie was just trying to help the symphony at their June 10 event.


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[lone wolf]

Appearances are most important to they with skeletons in their closets.

 

[karrie]

lol...I wonder how many paranoid spouses wondered why they hadn't been included in the fun.

 

[lone wolf]

Never heard a BOB humm Brahms.... Cool!

 

[SLM]

lol...I wonder how many paranoid spouses wondered why they hadn't been included in the fun.

I hadn't thought of that actually, lol. Could explain why so many might have freaked out, afraid their other half would get suspicious.

I just can't believe they can't just 'get the hell over it'. It was a fundraiser for goodness sakes.

 

[karrie]

I just find it kind of curious, because I can't think of when I've ever been to a sex shop that came up as a name on my debit statement.

 

[MapleDog]

I hadn't thought of that actually, lol. Could explain why so many might have freaked out, afraid their other half would get suspicious.

I just can't believe they can't just 'get the hell over it'. It was a fundraiser for goodness sakes.

"But honey i went there asking directions on how to get out of there"

 

[SLM]

I just find it kind of curious, because I can't think of when I've ever been to a sex shop that came up as a name on my debit statement.

You're right, typically sex shops or online stores are the embodiment of discretion. Perhaps because it was used outside of the store location at the site of the fundraiser? I mean, it's a machine you plug it in and go but it's also on a network of sorts. So perhaps to identify it, they had to label it with the name of the store that had the contract?

I could be wrong, I only know of one fundraiser where one of our clients, a computer retailer, allowed their POS electronic funds transfer machine to be used but that was all done at the store location.

"But honey i went there asking directions on how to get out of there"

A funny thing happened on the way to the symphony.

Lol.