Shecky’s Girls Night Out

Here we all, all this time. And I still can’t get anybody to even answer the phone. I guess I lost my money to these theives. Such a shame…

Update. Wow. It has been 3 years since I wrote my review and nothing has changed. The reviews get worse and worse except for those written by your staff. It is amazing with all the bad press that you are still in operation. You have cancelled cites, picked cheaper venues and set up in smaller areas due to dwindling vendors. Customers still have the same complaints they had 3 years ago. Cheap swag bags, bad location (parking $ 18), and vendors selling cheap crap (not that there aren’t some originals out there — probably new). Too bad. You used to be something great for vendors and customers. I guess the true blame for this downfall rests on the shoulders of the owner. If he or she had read any of the reviews, they would have fired the staff and start over. Find out where they went wrong. Instead, they are only interested in making money and as long as the vendors pay (no sales) and the customers pay (for a bad time) then no change will happen. Don’t get me wrong. I would love for Shecky’s to return to it’s former greatness but I believe it has burned to many bridges for that. Not sure I will need to write another update because Shecky’s will probably be defunct by then.

I was apprehensive about this event after reading all the bad reviews, but I have to say it was way more fun than I thought it would be. I went to the event on 1÷30÷2014, and there were tons of awesome vendors — most were selling fairly unique clothes and jewelry, but others were selling things like healthy diet plans and organic snacks (with samples!), which I thought was really great. All the vendors were super nice, and were happy to answer questions. A lot of them were doing giveaways, too, but unfortunately I wasn’t lucky enough to win anything.
The open bar was a great deal — I dared to try the Smirnoff Screwdriver bottled beverage, and I was pleasantly surprised to find that it was really good! The goodie bag was awesome, too… so much great stuff, like coconut water, lip gloss, lotions and conditioners. I will absolutely go to another Shecky’s event!
Also, I’ve never been to the Peterson Automotive Museum — it was really cool to see all the funky old cars and motorcycles! Five stars for being a great event all around!

I went to the Sheckys girls night out event on 1÷30÷2014 at Peterson Auto Museum. It was ok. It definitely could have been better. I bought my tickets for $ 12 on travelzoo. Even after all the bad reviews I had read, I still wanted to check this event out just because.
I was hoping that since Shecky’s got such bad reviews, perhaps they had tried to improve this year. I was pleased with my goodie bag. I believe I got my $ 12 back with 2 dove conditioners, soft lips Chapstick and Neutrogena revitalizing lip balm. Also included in my bag was 2oz mouthwash sample, 1oz lube, 1 chocolate zico coconut water, 10 always pantyliners, 5 tampax tampons, an always pouch, a 0.53 oz sebamed cleansing bar, waking up married book, impress press on nails and wholesome sweeteners sugar packets. Not so bad.
The cocktails were provided by Smirnoff and some other brand. There was a choice of I think tequila, cider, screwdriver and something else. The free drinks were pretty good for being free.
There was an ok amount of vendors. Clothes, jewelry, bags, one makeup counter, healthy cookie samples, surgery raffle, sex toys, energy drink samples, la croix samples, tarot reader, aura reader? and one healthy food delivery sample table. There were a few deals with a $ 5 clothing table and a $ 10 area. It could have been nice if they had more beauty services or more free services, and some more unique vendors. You could probably walk around and see all the vendors in one hour. Which is exactly how long I was there. That time included looking at the cars. There was food for purchase available also, but I did not go over to look at it. There was also no photo booth. Girls love a photo booth!
The event didn’t leave me happy like my first pamper me fabulous in Palos verde.(however not all pamper me fabulous are great either)
For $ 12 though I did get a decent goodie bag. One star for the goodie bag and getting my money’s worth, one star for alcohol included, one star for entertaining me for one hour.
If you do plan to try and check out a Shecky’s event, buy the ticket when it’s cheap like $ 11 or $ 12 because come the week of the event it will be $ 15.
Also we were lucky to find a meter nearby and did not have to pay too much for parking! Yay.

They are a TOTAL FRAUD!
DON’T PAY the people working in these mediocre conditions. I havent been paid in months and the people working in their offices are rude, unprofessional and act like 6^th grade bitches arguing over whose barrette is prettier.
Don’t GO! DON’T BE A VENDOR! BOYCOTT BOYCOTT…
…Come on ladies, lets stick together, we all know this company shouldn’t be allowed to operate the way it does… they are pocketing money left and right, don’t pay their «Payed Independent Contractors» as the position was presented to me, and the events suck.
I got a goodie bag that was left over and couldn’t believe people had payed extra for that crap. The pictures shown are giving them way too much credit… smh.

It’s a little weak. Good that it’s an outing for ladies to do things they like to do like drink & shop, but it’s boring after 30 minutes. Plus the «goodie bags» are cheezy. Location is everything and the downtown LA location was wack, go back to Santa Monica or somewhere where you do not have to wait on a long line to get on the elevator, then a long line to get into event.
Pro: Some of the vendors had great items. I really liked Atasha’s Trinkets. She had some great fashion items such as accessories, clothes, and bags. I got a great pair of earrings & a bag. I will look forward to having her at my ladies night out events.

Alright, I’m ready. Ready to write an honest review of Sheckys LA Girls Night Out. Why did it take so long? I’ve been in a haze of convincing myself that it was amazing, because I really wanted it to be.
:LOCATION:
California Market Center, yeah id never heard of it either. Parking was $ 18. Which is EXPENSIVE. But not completely out of the norm for LA. The real rich people own parking lots. Its cheaper to park at LA Live, yeah what’s going on here? The CMC is a OK building, it seems to be a notch above a swap meet. But, has potential. What it doesn’t have is efficient elevators and air conditioning.
:EVENT:
The promotion of this event had me sold. I was expecting something grand, it wasn’t. There were a great deal of vendors set up ready to sell their merchandise. Some understand the game of sales, if you are too busy on your phone I’m not interested in ANYTHING you have. Also, next time you come to a women’s only event hire MEN. Know your audience, a room full of boozy women want to see and buy from cute guys. It was a great idea, but poorly executed.
PROS:
— Free Booze — Yes, this is why I gave 2 stars instead of one. The Smirnoff Bar had delicious frozen drinks. But the Sweet N Low Bar had the worlds strongest vodka drink. YESSSSSSSSSSSS. Lol, at first I thought they were serving juice, but they weren’t.
— Price. I paid $ 12 on Travelzoo for my ticket, which included the swag bag. Although the swag bag aint had a bit of swag, $ 12 for drinks is AMAZING.
— Small Businesses — It was great to be able to interact, and purchase from businesses I wouldn’t normally come across.
— Henna — I didn’t get one, but you could get one FOR FREE. Score.
CONS:
— HEAT — It was wayyyy to hot. Like unbearable. There were no fans or air conditioning on. AT ALL.
— Line — Let me say this, I showed up ON TIME. So, my wait wasn’t that long. If you showed up after 6, you mine as well went home. When we went back to the car the line was wrapped around the building.
— Bag — They call it a Goodie Bag I call it a Bag. I had a Book, Some Sugar, a Nasty Mango Coconut Water and a Snack Bar. Then a bunch of junk. WTH. They couldn’t get any sample size stuff from anywhere?
I wont be coming back. Bummer.

I didn’t know what Shecky’s Girls Night Out was prior to going there last friday. But now I know. Waste of time and waste of money. I was expecting eclectic selection of handmade jewelry, clorthing, arts and crafts. What I experienced was the following:
Pros —
none
Cons–
-$ 18 for parking
-$ 10 gets you in, $ 15 gets you a free cheap bag full of random book, sugar packets, small coconut water and a protein bar.
–long ass line at the first floor to get clearance to enter up the elevator to the 13^th floor
–another long ass line when you get to the 13^th floor to enter the event
–too many jewelry booths and adult party booths
–cheap clothes and I ended up buying a top for $ 15 which I would never buy outside (I dunno why but I’ll put it to Goodwill).
–no free samples except a shot of Strawberry Daiquiri (Smirnoff booth)
None of my girlfriends were impressed we left within 30 mins. If we didn’t end up going to a bar for happy hour afterwards, I would be one crabby Sharr.

Just attended the Downtown LA event — OMG! What a horrible waste of time and effort! Paid way to much for tickets that should have been given away. the venue was an empty floor in a building with no A/​C. At 5pm there was a very long line to get to the elevator to take you upstairs to another long line so it took about 45min to get into this crappy event. The goodie bags that are shown in all the pics on various website are a crock! We received nothing even close to what is shown and we were told that they our bags were worth «almost» $ 40″ The vendors with exception of a small few, consisted of trinkets that we could have bought from the street vendors downtown. Total and utter disappointment and a waste of money!!! If I could give it zero stars I would.
DON’T GO — meet your girls at any of the great restaurants in DWLA for drinks and A/​C!

Downtown location this year. What a bust! Not worth $ 10. Free with student ID, but even then, not worth the long wait in line. The $ 15 ticket gets you a cheapo gift bag-​a book, bunch of sweet and low packets, some coconut water, and a granola bar. No free stuff from booths aside from free fake tanning sessions and henna tattoos (if you want to wait in another huge ass line!). Tip: don’t waste your time and have a girls night out somewhere else.

Omg. Don’t waste your money. I have been going to these for years and noticed a decline each year… But we always had fun and got some great items nonetheless. I remember the first couple if years I went I bought some really unique accessories and the goody bags were loaded with full sized product and great items (like jewelry, hair accessories, hairbrushes, hair products, vitamins, candles etc)
This year I got a cheap plastic bag with lube, tampons, and press on nails… what?
All the vendors were selling swap meet/​la mart garbage. I did not buy anything. They usually have free goodies, a red carpet with photos, free snacks, product demos, etc. I recommended this event to a friend and was embarrassed to have taken her. Don’t waste your money

I got to attend the Shecky’s Girls Night Out event as a blogger and I had an amazing time. Yes, the gift bags aren’t so great as before, but there were still some useful products in there that I could put to good use. Remember this event isn’t about getting free goodies but more about experiencing an awesome night with all your girl friends and the free booze and shopping will not disappoint! They also have a lot more vendors here then Sassy City Chicks GNO. Several booths offered free services such as lash/​brow tinting, makeup applications, and hair styling. For more in depth review of the event check out my blog entry at
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I’ve been going to Shecky’s in Boston for a few years and always had a blast. The goody bags were well worth the money and got some cool things. Expecting the same at Santa Monica, I was wholeheartedly let down by the so-​called goody bag at this event. Does anyone even use Softlips anymore?
The set up was the same, but the space was too big for the small amount of vendors at the event. I did get mostly jewelry, an Italian body lotion/​scrub set, and a delicious cupcake. But overall, the fashions were totally overpriced from the Fashion District, one booth was selling old Forever 21 merch, and there were too many «ladies home parties» booths. The booth asking to calculate your body fat percentage was a horrible touch. We spent about an hour and called it a day. There were a couple of really good jewelry designers. I felt bad for the fortune teller booth… she had nothing to entice people to get her services… me thinks she needs some marketing! We didn’t get any drinks as the lines were too long and there was no food to go with it.
I would not go to this event again. Tacky jewelry, bad clothing vendors, and overall a sad display of vendors (when Maybelline is your biggest draw, something is NOT right). I’m just glad I got these tix on discount.

Completely pissed off. As a regular Shecky’s attendee 4+yrs.)I THOUGHT I purchased the LEAP YEAR SPECIAL because I FOLLOWED THE LINK FROM MY EMAIL (as I always have to their deals) to buy & my purchase came to $ 30 & TAX. I look @ my purchase on the site under my acct. today & notice it’s only for 1 TICKET not 3 TICKETS. I & the Shecky’s rep can see I clearly purchased within the time frame & it was an obvious misunderstanding on my part & the link not forwarding under the deal. I simply accepted the total because the tax & amount should’ve been in that range for the 3 ticket deal. So anyway, I’m explaining & seeing if they could honor it & they tell me flat out NO!
So now I’m forced to buy them at their deal today (which the link takes you right to the deal, AMAZINGLY w/​the sale price automatically there) for $ 15 a ticket! they must be really hard up!!!
Well once I get the word out about this for of B.S., there will be less of my crew & new friends attending & other events will get our business. If anyone wants to know of more events besides this one send a message my way!
Leap Year Special: Best Sale in 4 Years!
From today until 11:59pm EST on Leap Day (Feb. 29^th), get a huge discount when you buy THREE Goodie Bag tickets! Only $ 29 for three (regularly $ 30 each). You won’t see anything like this for another 4 years! While supplies last; offer subject to change at any time. Discount only applies to groups of three tickets purchased at the same time. Tickets must all be for the same event day to qualify.

I came here last year when it was at the Petersen Automotive Museum and I was a little disappointed because I was really expecting more.
Upon arriving here, I paid about $ 10 for parking (in Petersen Automotive Museum’s covered structure) and took the elevator up to the 2^nd floor and walked outside towards the big white tent. I checked in and got my little red VIP paper wrist band and red (reusable) bag of free goodies. The goodies were just okay… super heavy at that and probably worth more than the $ 15 I paid (living social voucher) but really wasn’t anything super spectacular about it. I received 2 heavy glade scented candles, Suave body wash, Goody brand hair ties, 2 pink emory boards, some peppermint food scrub sample, 2 small sample size pop chips, Suave hand lotion and some coupons and trial size shampoo from The Body Shop (there may have been a few other goodies that I have not mentioned).
The pricing on all the jewelry, clothing and other boutique like items at the event was some what pricey, which made me not want to buy anything. This place just reminded me of a pricey street fair, that only sold woman clothing. There was alcohol around, but it wasn’t free. There was one booth that let you spin the wheel to try to score some free theater tickets at the Pantages Theater, but I didn’t win any and so I got some coupon to get tickets for one the featured shows 25% off.
Overall, wasn’t incredible impressed with the event. It was smaller than I had expected and it just didn’t completely fulfill like the advertisement blurb on their website said it would deliver.
But the major plus about this was being able to get free admission into the museum itself. I love all of the old fashion cars and the cars that were part of famous movies. Great photo opps. (Oh and by the way, for those that are interested in inquiring about weddings here, the big white tent that this event took place can be done the same for your wedding and you can pay extra for your guests to walk around certain floors and spaces to look around the museum and take their photos with the cars as well… but all for a high price tag).
All in all, I wouldn’t come back unless there were more vendors, bigger discounts, free alcohol and some snacks so that we don’t get too tipsy right away. Oh and what is a girl’s night out w/​o a fun (free) photo booth keepsake to remember the night?

If I could give this even a 0 rating, I would. I can’t even begin to express how disappointed I was. I really did my friends a dis-​service by inviting them to attend an event like this.
First off, the vendors SUCKED. Jewelry and clothing were overpriced. I could get the same things at Forever 21 for less than half the price. There were 2 bars serving cocktails and beer, which is nice but I was so turned off by the event, I didn’t even stay long enough to get my $ 15 (50% off the ticket price btw) worth of alcohol.
The goodie bag? JUNK. I came home and realized I made out better from buying cosmetics on ULTA and receiving samples from them! My goodie bag was filled with 2 cans of soda, a bunch of mini samples from the body shop, some pads and 2 packs of Softlips chapstick. To say I feel ripped off would be an understatement. Where were the goodie bags overflowing with samples I saw in pictures?
Not to mention parking was $ 9!!! Omg. Such a waste of time. My friends and I stayed and hour (an hour of my life I’ll never get back) and went to dinner instead. Needless to say, I WILL NOT BE BACK! BOOO Shecky’s!

If this was a free event, I would give it a 3 stars. BUT WE all PAY for this! If you were like most people, you would of paid $ 30 for this event and another $ 9 FOR PARKING! ~(If I paid for this, I would of been beyond pissed off) Luckily I waited and was still indecisive whether to go or not. Well, from this review, I did go but I paid $ 16.33 for this event and one free one for next fall. Woohoo, lucky me! (Roling eyes)
Shecky has gone way way way down. Vendors, (the few that were there), they were pretty expensive. You can go to Ross or Marshall to get the same quality of stuff at almost half the price these vendors were selling.
The free drinks were diluted. Worse of all, NO FOOD booths?! Even to sell or sample. If you have an event on a weekday, right at 5pm, you know people usually come right straight from work! I’ve heard so many people complained that they were so hungry but they couldn’t leave and come back because they had already paid $ 9 to park.
The Cirque Du Soleil photo booths were awesome! They had a booth where they take some actions pictures of you and your friends and it becomes a little picture book as you flipped the pages. I missed that one because we were waiting to get everyone in our group together, so by 9pm we were there and they closed and shut down!!! Isn’t the closing time 10pm? One of the «Free» better booth there we wanted, but got shut down early. SO DISAPPOINTED!
The Goody Bag! — Not.
I’ll call it the junk bag. The first thing I reached down there to grab was a bag of carefree panty liners! Really?
2 cans of soda, 1 brand was leftover from last year’s goody bag.
GOODY brand hair ties– left over from last year’s
Plastic Cocktail maker– also left over from last Fall’s goody bags.
A few other samples size deodorant, perfumes, lip gloss, a few other useless beauty and health samples.
~What happened to the promised Goody bag over $ 50-​$ 100 for $ 20?!
My friends and I had been dedicated Shecky’s fan. But I think this is the last time we will attend. It’s really a waste of money, time and energy. :-(
Dear Shecky, Take some lesson from Pamper me Fabulous. It might help you to climb back up.

I had high hopes for this event, but alas, the reviews I read prove Shecky’s has gone down hill. The legendary goody bag is over rated, here is what was in mine,
1 can of sparkling water
1 can of natural sode
trial size protein bar
2 trail size expoliaters
trial size body wash
beeswax for lips
mini lip gloss
trial deoderant
trial personal lubricant
trial fcuk
54 pack panty liners
sample dreams unlimited
key chain’
hair ties
more samples
frebreze soy blend candle
cocktail maker, plastic
NYX lip cream
There were not that many people there at all. I mean, when people are handing out free booze and only two people are in line, there is not an issue. Longest wait was for the pictures by /​and the mini makeovers.
For all the space in the civic center, they crammed the vendors way too close together. I won’t be going back again. I could have spent $ 15 at Walmart and accomplished the same purpose,

Like paying money to be advertised to? Like cheap jewelry and waiting in lines for supposed freebies? Like giving away your email to multiple spam lists? Then come to Shecky’s! I went in May in LA @ Petersen’s Auto Museum.
I swear someone is making bank off this — but meanwhile I walked away paying $ 10 when they should have paid me to be advertised to! (They sold out of gift bags– my friend got one and paid $ 20– but it had maybe $ 10 worth of stuff in it– we counted– some floss, deodorant, a febreeze fake candle scent like thing, lip gloss, plastic cheap martini shaker, body shop sample packets, la croix sparkling water, luna bar, metro mint— that’s about it).
The clothes and accessories at the vendors were pretty low brow. I’m more of a Billion Dollar Babes sale kind of person (i.e. I’d rather pay $ 80 for $ 300 jeans than $ 56 for an $ 88 purse). Jewelry was pretty tacky and dresses were like flea market /​Melrose cheap end quality and style. I also like Unique LA (better taste! cheaper event!).
It’s also weird how a lot of the sponsors hire shirtless 21 – 25 year old actor model guys to pour their drinks and stuff. Weird. And lets be honest after living in LA for 8 years I don’t think actor/​models with shirts off are really that hot– they’re like sigh gosh not another one–
The pampering is an overstatement– Maybeline set up free makeovers with 30 minute++ wait (meh)– same with free «mini facials» (no thanks) and the room /​tent smelled funny (thank goodness they were giving away deodorant). One table did give away coupons for a free eyebrow wax– but they’re all at locations like 40 min from me (I live in WeHo).
Also about ¹⁄₃ the size I thought it’d be.
Well now I know I never have to come back!

I’ve never heard of Shecky’s before. but I came here with fellow Unilocaler Sue Z to check the place out. The place was huge. And there were lots of women there. Too many women … all over the place. TOO much estrogen for me.
Anyway, the clothes there were okay. It wasn’t really that good. The quality of most of it was similar to what you’d probably find downtown or at a swap meet.
I did end up buying a few things here though. but I probably would not be back. And If I did. it would only be to get one of their goodie bags.
Oh yeah. there was all kinds of free alcohol here. and a booth was handing out free samples of chocolate. MmM.