I am seriously disappointed with the service I got from Eric Badan. Two weeks ago, I asked him for a tattoo dedicated to my wife, saying my one true love, her name, a heart and some flowers over my le... Read More
I am seriously disappointed with the service I got from Eric Badan. Two weeks ago, I asked him for a tattoo dedicated to my wife, saying my one true love, her name, a heart and some flowers over my left chest. He charged me $150 for the tattoo, which seemed like a pretty fair price, for the design.Prior to the tattoo, I gave him a $100 tip to do the very best work, as this was an extremely important tattoo for me. All my previous tattoos at other places had more developed tones to the colors, whereas his was closer to coloring in a coloring book. I should have told him I would tip him $100, if great, not give it to him in advance. My wife immediately pointed out that he forgot to cross the "t" in true love. She also said the odd stems looked weird. I admit I had accepted the design, so my bad on that. I worked out a design with small, simple flowers at the end of the stems, and went back the next day to show Eric. He apologized for forgetting to cross the "t" , and said he had been thinking to do the flowers on the stems to begin with, but decided not to. I told him I wanted something to fix it up, and was willing to pay, if it was necessary to fix it with the flowers. He said he would fix the "t" in the tattoo, and was not going to charge me for the flowers either. We scheduled it for 10:30 this morning. I had been debating on a simpler solution to make some interesting leaves instead of small flowers. I drew a design and when I went to Eric this morning, he looked at it, and said that would not work with unless he did them on the bottom too, as it would throw the entire tattoo off. I did not really agree, but told him that was fine. I talked to my wife and she said she thought that would look fine either way. He then looked at the clock, as though he had not planned for much time to work with me, and said "let me draw on you and see how it goes". Not once did he mention he would now expect any payment for any of the changes. He drew two very, very simplistic leaves, adding four lines to the tattoo to make the adjustment. It was lame, but since he was making the change at no charge and my wife said it looked better, I said it was fine, Β but asked that he put small flowers on the stems with the dots he would not turn into leaves. He said he could not do anything with the other stems, which was nonsense, but I figured my wife is OK with it, so the simple fix would be good enough. Since he was not charging me anything, even though it was not great, it was OK. AFTER he finished, he tells me he doesn't want to, but has to charge me $60 for today's work. I told him that he had said he would not charge me when I made the appointment two weeks ago, and he said he didn't recall that, apologized if I was confused, but said I had to pay the $60. I paid, left and immediately sent an email to Mr. Bishop. If I had known, I would have demanded something better than the lame fix he put into place, that took him all of 10 minutes to do. If I had know I was paying anything, I would have demanded the design I wanted. Those lousy leaves cost disproportionately more than the rest of the tattoo. Since I had to drive back to have him fix his mistake, I would never have expected him to charge for a few minutes extra work. If he was planning to charge me, he should have quoted me a price up-front, not sneak it in at the end and tell me he didn't want to charge me, but was required by shop policy to do so. To tell me he has to charge me AFTER doing the work is wrong. I would never have agreed to such a lame change for $60 and would have insisted to get a quote to fix it how WE actually wanted it fixed. I chose Ugly Bishop's for their good rating. Having them treat me as I was treated is completely inappropriate. I was more than willing to pay for the fixes I had requested, but to be told he could not do what I asked for, and then charge me $60 for four lines and a little green color without even having the decency to tell me that upfront is criminal. $60 is nothing, but to not give me what I asked for and charge me for something any decent place would cover just for the inconvenience the mistake had caused, that angers me a lot. Read Less