This 1 star is for how our experience ended...the beginning of our visit was awesome. My girlfriends and I came in the other night for some tattoos that we randomly and very spontaneously decided to g... Read More
This 1 star is for how our experience ended...the beginning of our visit was awesome. My girlfriends and I came in the other night for some tattoos that we randomly and very spontaneously decided to get together since I was leaving the next day and it was our last night together. This place took us just before closing which meant we were being tattooed while the shop was technically closed. Super cool of them. Zach was fun to talk to and joked with us the whole time we were there. However, when we were finished and ready to pay, (AFTER the tattoos were already done) we were told their card reader was not working when we tried to pay with one. We were using credit by the way. Zach laughed and said "yeah i made a sign that says cash only but I never put it up". So he tried to get the card reader up and running and it just wasnt happening so he suggested downloading an app to transfer funds to him. Well we tried but unfortunately that app was debit only, not credit so it wouldn't allow any funds to be transferred. He suggested we go to the sex shop next door and try to use the atm...well credit doesnt work that way but the girls decided to at least try so they went next door to the sex shop to try and use the atm. I stayed, so it didnt look like we were skipping out on paying because that is absolutely not at all what we were doing. So they come back, obviously not able to pull money from a credit card, and We are all pretty much in a huge dilemma at this point. This is my 5th tattoo, and all other shops I've been to, to get my others done they have all taken cards. I have never had a problem. Now I dont mind that this is a cash only shop....but we were never told and there was no sign anywhere to be seen. He even said he never put one up, as I stated earlier in this review. So the only other option we had was for the girls to come back Thursday with cash when they got their paychecks since we had exhausted all options of paying with credit. They had all of our info, our addresses, our id numbers etc on the paper work we filled out before the tattoos so its not like we could disappear forever even if we tried. At this point He started getting pretty aggressive and obviously irritated, as were we, because he didnt want us leaving without paying. Obviously understandable but its extremely unfortunate that there was never word of it being cash only and that it had to come to that point because it was a great experience until then. So the girls offered to actually leave their physical drivers licenses until Thursday (i couldnt, as I was traveling immediately the next day) to prove that they were coming back. Very poor managing here and not properly informing customers of requirements before tattoos are given. It was handled very unprofessionally, and even while we were there it wasnt a professional atosphere, as a bunch of his friends joined the shop shortly after us to smoke weed in the other room next to us. The attitude given during this whole discrepancy was just uncalled for and this experience has taught me NEVER to just pick a random shop out of nowhere. Absolutely terrible idea. I am disappointed that our visit turned out this way because the hospitality beforehand was great, but this discrepancy has deterred me from ever wanting to visit this shop ever again.***our tattoos were small wrist tats no bigger than a quarter each, and we still tipped him $35 even after all this nonsense. We are honest people who were not properly informed of payment methods at this shop, but were made to seem like theives weaseling out of payment. Definitely not okay. Read Less