Wife signed up for an artists to charged her $700 a session…but never set a length of time for those sessions. The artist would complain about hand pain and call it short sometimes but still expect $700 plus tip after each session “because that’s what they agreed to”.
I explained to my wife she was getting ripped off but was too embarrassed to admit it. Eventually after a few sessions got cut short, she saw the light and pretended she ran out of money for the tattoo.
She ended up paying like $3000 for this medium/large sized tattoo. At least it looks good but i showed her other tattoos for a similar price and she really saw how much she was getting taken advantage of.
Yeah it just sucks because we wanted to support a local artist but they turn it into this nasty experience. My wife just took all the artists info at face value and felt they were being genuine.
That's why I said "yes." But she wasn't necessarily scammed. She bought into a bad deal because she wasn't informed. "Scam" is a crime. What happened to her was not a crime. It happened because she was uneducated. If she was educated, then she would not have been taken advantage of.
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u/GobblesTzT 9h ago
Wife signed up for an artists to charged her $700 a session…but never set a length of time for those sessions. The artist would complain about hand pain and call it short sometimes but still expect $700 plus tip after each session “because that’s what they agreed to”.
I explained to my wife she was getting ripped off but was too embarrassed to admit it. Eventually after a few sessions got cut short, she saw the light and pretended she ran out of money for the tattoo.
She ended up paying like $3000 for this medium/large sized tattoo. At least it looks good but i showed her other tattoos for a similar price and she really saw how much she was getting taken advantage of.