As the studio owner I would like to point out a few things about john mons review.
Firstly nick is a regular customer and was in a couple of weeks ago having another tattoo by Colin therefore even the first sentence is irrelevant.
Secondly, perhaps the owners are not as friendly towards you as they could have been because of your need to be pally pally to our face then slag us off on facebook and the internet, not a good trait in anyone but expected moreso of a teenager.
Also, we do not approve of the way you bully the younger female staff at Acreedos and try to abuse them on facebook (again, very quiet face to face)
As you and most of our 12000 other followers know, 90% of our work is custom! bespoke designs. We did not answer your emails as the last time you threw your toys out the pram we both agreed that you would only contact us face to face to avoid you misunderstanding us. Yes, any artwork which is drawn straight on the skin is chargeable, this is standard in this trade and if you want a sleeve etc with lines to fit your shape it is unavoidable.
Yes, our tattoos are back to back, we are a business. A quiet tattoo studio is not a good tattoo studio but our cleaning down and setting up time is not included in your time.
There ARE several floors which anyone who has had a tattoo, piercing, laser or even just walked past the studio can see so that's clearly another invalid point. Our iPads are touch screen, and our "back to back" customers show we are clearly customer focused otherwise we would surely be quiet?.
Yes, we did charge you more on a Saturday, the £200 half day bookings we kindly gave you during the week were not applicable then as you were told. I never asked you for £210. As you were also told our pricing structure on ongoing pieces is as follows : £80 for 3 or less hours and £70 an hour for 3 or more. You had two hours which should have been £160. I was not in the studio when you came to pay but after trying to intimidate our young receptionist I agreed on the phone that we would accept £140, you then threw your money at a 19 year old girl and walked out.
£1500 on two sleeves a back piece, both sides and a chest piece is not a rip off.
I think you'll actually find that Colin who you are so negative about is who you wanted to do your tattoo and who you was "happy to wait for" but due to his waiting list you went with Pawel who you quite rightly point out is an excellent tattoo artist. We are glad to have had him work with us for the last 18 months but we have been open 8 years so clearly Acreedos would remain open.
Our waiver is a council requirement and we have been using them since we opened.
So, many thanks for your review, albeit Ill-informed and unknowledgable and I hope the suit goes well :)
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