AIBU to think hairdressers shouldn't keep

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you waiting 30 mins to spend exactly 4 minutes cutting your hair 12 mins drying it and then charge £60?
Is this not daylight robbery? Or AIBU?

Eriknorseman
Thanks for that, unfortunately or fortunately the hairdressers wasn't near where I live. So I won't be going back anyhow! Put it down to experience.

My last cut was a complete restyle - 20 cm cut off - it cost £26

LineRunner same here, I think it's to hide the fact that they can't figure out how long to cut it when it's normal long but very curly, or maybe they just have a thing against curly hair. The trouble with straightening my hair is that a nice straight line when the hair is straight is nothing like straight when the hair is normal because my hair when long has 2 major kinks on the left and 1 on the right; if they wet it to control its flyawayness they lose the kink and get stuck.

Unless the salon were extremely apologetic about the wait I wouldn't have waited any longer than 15 minutes. YANBU

For the reasons mentioned by everyone, I haven't been to a hairdressing salon for years. I have a mobile, properly trained hairdresser who visits me at home (I can't be bothered to sit waiting in a salon) and she charges £10 for a trim. I've asked how much a hair dye and highlights would cost and was told £28. I'm just plucking up the courage to go through with it from white to blonde.

Oh, and she's never late in arriving.

MadderHat I think they have a thing against curly hair. I know this because of the way they pick it up and throw it back down like they've got shit on their hands whilst saying, 'Oooh, is that natural? '

LineRunner I once got caught in the rain before a hair appointment, and it dried without benefit of a brush, so it dried in very tight curls - think the kind of ringlets that rich girls would have having had their hair in papers overnight a century ago. The hairdressers tried to claim it had been permed and therefore my simple cut would be more expensive. Passed a brush through it, and a minute later they agreed it wasn't permed. I try to go to hairdressers' no more than once a year, and preferably the one who has known me since I was a child, near my mother's house. Pity that's 200 miles away.

I once went to what I thought was a perfectly ordinary salon near my work - had a half head of highlights and a trim and got charged £287 plus £3 for the coffee . It was the Daniel Herscheson salon - I didn't know he was anything special and you know what - it was a perfectly ordinary, drab salon and I had a perfectly ordinary haircut from a perfectly ordinary hairdresser.

My fault for not knowing but I just had no idea this was even possible.

margoandjerry - I am x 1000 that a hair cut/highlights could cost £287!!! Come to my hairdresser next time. £33 for full head tint, cut and blow dry, AND the coffee's free.

Did you tip?

£287 >

I can't believe they charged you for the coffee!

Margoandjerry, were the staff all dressed in stripy tops and little masks? And were they all called Bill?
Also, hairdressers fear curly hair unless they are ninja warrior hairdressers.

i only get charged mates rates for my hair as dd is friends with the owners son I did go before they were friends though and was charged normal prices , i do hope they dont fall out , I alays tip the stylist though,