To think that beauticians & hairdressers shouldn’t be hiking prices?

[Anon778833]

I’m a therapist myself. But we have all felt the pinch of covid 19. Why should clients be expected to make up for the fact that we couldn’t work for 4 months?

@SugarbabyMilly

You should clean thoroughly after clients anyway. That shouldn’t be new. My own therapist hasn’t increased her prices. I think if hairdressers add on an extra £40 people will simply go to someone who doesn’t.

Mean spirited thread...if you're so confident you could find someone in your price range, I doubt you'd be posting on here about it. And if you're a "therapist" yourself, I feel there's a touch of the green eyed about this as well.

YABU.

You only have to think about it for a second- fewer clients per day, longer hours, expense of extra hygiene measures, cleaning, perspex screens etc. It's great if you've managed to arrange your business so there is no change in costs or you are so comfortable you can absorb the costs - it won't be the case for most small businesses.

My cut and colour on Tuesday was about 20% more expensive, that seems proportional to me. I've missed 2 appointments so I've saved there.

Would you have not put up your prices up in March/April for the new financial year anyway?

Yabu. Businesses can charge what they like. If people don't want to pay it, they can go elsewhere.

I want my hairdresser to stay in business so I don't mind paying extra.

I don't think there is any reasonable vs unreasonable about this. Businesses as ever can charge what they like. Purchasers can chose not to purchase if they are unhappy. That's it - the end.

Wait til food and production goods - fridges freezers go sky high with additional labour lack of parts

This is the start

@SugarbabyMilly

You should clean thoroughly after clients anyway. That shouldn’t be new. My own therapist hasn’t increased her prices. I think if hairdressers add on an extra £40 people will simply go to someone who doesn’t.

There you go then, problem solved.

Here in Edinburgh, some stylists are adding on an extra £15, plus you've to take your own mask.
If that's not a piss take, I don't know what is!

Yabu. Businesses can charge what they like. If people don't want to pay it, they can go elsewhere

Not if they only announce AFTER the treatment that the price has risen by £40.

@SugarbabyMilly

Yabu. Businesses can charge what they like. If people don't want to pay it, they can go elsewhere

Not if they only announce AFTER the treatment that the price has risen by £40.

Oh for goodness' sake talk about dripfeed. That changes the whole colour of the argument.

Of course if a hairdresser or beauty practitioner takes a "regular" booking, fails to flag that the price has changed, and only tells the customer after the treatment? That is highly unreasonable without a doubt.

But you didn't say that earlier, hence people understandably defending the right of hairdressers and others to advertise and offer higher prices due to PPE costs and COVID-19.

I think though it's a pretty fundamental distinction, no?

@GinDaddyRedux

You assume wrong. In my town nobody has put their prices up (that I go to)

This thread is in response to beauty therapists on a FB group talking about how their clients are unhappy to find out their prices have risen. Probably because they were not politely informed at the time of booking! FYI I’m on maternity leave so not even working atm.

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Ridiculous dripfeed.

[quote SugarbabyMilly]@GinDaddyRedux

You assume wrong. In my town nobody has put their prices up (that I go to)

This thread is in response to beauty therapists on a FB group talking about how their clients are unhappy to find out their prices have risen. Probably because they were not politely informed at the time of booking! FYI I’m on maternity leave so not even working atm.[/quote]
So you're posting about something you've seen on a FB group, and you're surmising that they probably weren't informed at the time of booking?!

What even is the point of this thread if it's not based on anything actual that's happened, just a projection of what a client might feel like IF someone pulled a CF move?

YABU just for this.

I don't think it's unreasonable. They're businesses, not charities. As long as it's just to cover the cost of PPE....I think hairdressers is one of the few businesses that will likely bounce back, as people at the very least need a basic haircut.

Fair play to them. The market will decide if they want to pay it or not.

As long as it's just to cover the cost of PPE

Or whatever increase they feel will help their business. Are you going to start looking at their entire business model and state what they can recoup or not?

I wouldn’t want to pay extra. I provide my own mask and I have my own hand sanitizer.

My nail salon hasn’t raised their price though

It’s not something I would personally do. We are all going through a difficult time financially. But if you want to hold onto clients you need to balance your own needs with what they can afford.

I’m awfully sorry @GinDaddyRedux, next time I post a thread I will check in with you to see if you think there is any point to it. Seeing as you are the self appointed thread police.

I'm not being thread police @SugarbabyMilly

I just don't get the point of a thread about something where you, the OP, doesn't actually know if anything U has happened or not, you're just reading another forum somewhere else and telling us about what might have happened

Back on topic, hairdressers and beauty therapists should be able to charge extra for PPE and to cover the costs of cleaning and disruption due to the coronavirus. Good luck to everyone in this profession who is trying to earn a living in a difficult environment to operate in.

I’m sick of people commenting on thread ‘how dare you post this thread, there’s no point’ it seems to have become a new thing on mumsnet.

It’s interesting to see whether people are happy to generally absorb the costs of salons being closed for 4 months. It seems that some are.

My hairdresser has had to take out half their chairs, the gap in time for cleaning is new time, they used to have someone cleaning while the hairdresser moved on to a new client, they can’t do that now, they’re having to change the way they work completely in that they often had two or three clients having different things done at the same time, again they can’t do that now.

I don’t know how much prices will go up yet as they’re not open yet - but they’ll have to as they’ll be working at less than half normal capacity.

That’s not making up for being closed, it’s just making sure they can keep running.

hairdressers and beauty therapists should be able to charge extra for PPE and to cover the costs of cleaning and disruption due to the coronavirus. Good luck to everyone in this profession who is trying to earn a living in a difficult environment to operate in

Amen to this

People are not absorbing the cost, hairdressers are charging to cover new costsand time restraints - as they are buinesses and covering costs and labour are how you run a buisness. Are you really that dense? We need to make money - the £40 extra after service may have hapoened or it may not - in the real world most of us have posted on line our price increases. We rely on repeat customers so anyone doing a scam woukd not last long in most towns.
Why on earth do you think we are not allowed to charge a price that gives us a living wage? It takes 2/3 years to train plus at least another 2 as a junior stylist ti be a really competent hairdresser - despite this most hairdressers are on minimum wage or only slightly higher. Quite frankly customers like you should piss off and buy supermarket dye.