Unfortunately, you can't use a negative rating. One star is as low as you can go. When you enter the building it's so thick with cigarette smoke, it took almost an hour to get it cleared out of my lun... Read More
Unfortunately, you can't use a negative rating. One star is as low as you can go. When you enter the building it's so thick with cigarette smoke, it took almost an hour to get it cleared out of my lungs. The person who does the piercing reeked of cigarette smoke. He couldn't show or tell (not even from a picture in the catalog where he orders his supplies) what the jewelry looks like, telling me I would find out what it looks like "after" the piercing was done.
So, you're getting - for me it was a nose piercing - a piece of jewelry on your face, and they expect it to be acceptable that you not know what that piece of jewelry looks like until "AFTER" it's on your face! That's the most absurd thing I've ever heard.
He was helpful, however. He let me know, that as a customer, spending my money for something as personal as a body piercing, if I wanted to know what the jewelry looks like before the piercing - there was a Burger King up the street, so I could get things my way.
Besides the filth, smell and general lack of professionalism, the guy who does the piercing was unusually, extraordinarily rude and obnoxious. There was also a young woman there who helped yell, in case she didn't think the guy who does the piercings was being obnoxious enough, as well as a small child who was learning social skills by watching these two adults handle themselves in a despicable manner.
I'm not sure how this place measures up with the Health Department. I know the cigarette smoke wouldn't make the grade. I'm sure these people think because they're the only place in town that does piercings, and Oxford is a college town, they may have decent business, and they can treat potential customers any way they like. More fool them. Btw, I was the only customer there. However, possibly they're more busy in the evenings or weekends?
I have been to a high quality place before, however, so I can tell people how it's supposed to be. A business is a place where you hope people - known as customers - want to come in and buy your product. Therefore, you treat them with respect, try to have the best product possible so they'll come to you and not somewhere else. You might not have enough business to want to stock several different types of jewelry - such as several different ones for nose piercings, but you do have some kind of showcase showing what choices you have for different piercings. That's basic!! Absolutely basic. You would never, in anyone's wildest dreams, tell a customer that they'll find out what their jewelry looks like *after* it's placed on their body. And then act like the customer is being unreasonable when she looks at you like you have three heads.
Then, once the customer picks out the jewelry that matches the quality and look they want - which would also correlate with how much that piercing would cost, of course, you should be in a clean environment where the person who does the piercing uses sterile technique. Then they give you information on how to take care of the piercing until the site heals.
That person should also be clean and not stink. Opus Land doesn't even meet that simple criteria, unfortunately.
I did let him know that I was not happy and was going to leave a negative review. He seemed to be under the misconception that letting him know this was an offense he could have me arrested for, and charged out the front door into the public, yelling for his partners to call the police. For his final act, he said he would call all the tattoo parlors in the area of Southaven, etc to make sure no one would sell me a nose piercing.
Wow - just wow! If anyone had told me a legitimate business would act this way, I would think they were crazy. Until today when I experienced it myself.
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