Damn, what a bunch of bull crap. When you are communicating the price of something that expensive, you have to say 'three-thousand seventy-five hundred'. He should only have to pay the $37.50 he was told.
You could go to court for this as this is a unfair commercial practice.
The waiter should've reassured that the man wanted that bottle as it was that expensive. It's not a product the average person could easily afford to purchase. Had he told the man the price again he wouldn't have bought it aka there's an omission to provide information from the waiter's side.
I wouldn't have paid that. There was an obvious mis-communication on behalf of the staff for assuming that someone would have inferred what they meant as such. That's ridiculous.
Anyway, sticking to by wine bottles under $10. They do the job and don't break the bank. I'm a cheap bitch. I like my cheap wines. They taste better than the fancy **** anyway.
Not under $10 wines.
You can great wines but for around $20, and not from Chile or Spain.