I'm sure you get hundreds of complaints about salons, but have any of the salon owners in question put a lien on the car of the injured party? Mine has.]]> I asked for my money back three times, and he refused, so I wrote on the back of my car window with shoe polish, "Tony Cao Salon Ruins Hair No Refunds." And he PUT A LIEN ON MY CAR! (In Texas, you can put a lien on anything for any reason.) [ed. A lien is a claim by one party on a second party's property that entitles them to a specific amount of money in the event of that piece of property's sale.] After calling and speaking with Tony Cao, I found out that this was not even one of his salons, but it is a man he is suing to get the name taken down. I would never have set foot in the place if I had known it was just some guy off the street! So I have filed a small claims lawsuit to recoup the cost of his salon's services, the cost of the salon services I needed to manicure out the major damage he caused, and the cost of my dermatologist. I got a letter from his attorney last night saying that they will pay me my claim and remove the lien from my car, if I am willing to sign documentation basically stating that it never happened, and promising my complete silence and confidentiality. So, in effect, they are saying they will stop trying to TAKE MY CAR if I promise never to tell anyone that this horrible place burned bald spots in my hair. If nothing else, it's an amusing story to everyone I know. Thanks, Lane B.The next day, Lane sent an update:Nutshell: I went to have a perm done in a Tony Cao salon in Trophy Club, Texas. Three different people worked on me, including a boy who told me he had no idea what he was doing. He was the one in charge of rinsing out the solution on my head. I ended up with burns and bald spots (see attached picture), and severely damaged hair. Not only would the salon owner not give me a refund, he told me it was my own fault for having had damaged hair prior to visiting his salon. He also charged me for a full haircut, when I had not asked for one...
Late yesterday, I spoke with their attorney and they made a correction on the suit. So we have settled, and the salon is giving me back my money. Thanks!Lane BThat's one bad hair day, and just about the worst customer service we've ever heard of. Ruin someone's hair, overcharge them, refuse to refund, then claim a piece of their car when they complain about it. Classy. Even though Lane had to go through a lot of hassle, you gotta figure that unless she publicly voiced her complaint in shoe polish on her back windshield, she wouldn't have ever ended up with a refund. We're not sure what happened at the point of the transaction, whether it was cash or she had given her credit card beforehand, or what, but I would have just refused to pay them.]]>
I got a bad perm once (yeah, people still perm their hair, especially to make it look fuller.) My hair was fried and a lot was burned off at the roots, and when I started to brush my hair when I got home, it came out in handfuls. I took the hair in a bag back to the salon (the salon was full of people.) They started saying they would condition my hair, and I told them they weren't touching it. They refused to give me a refund, so I took the hair out of the bag and said to the other customers "This was on my head two hours ago-be careful here!" and they gave me my money back immediately. This happened three years ago- it took over a year for my hair to recover from the frying, and I am still regrowing the length of the burned off hair. So these things do happen.
]]>By a bank, for the purposes of a loan for the purchase of the vehicle, or by a mechanic, who is unpaid for the work done to said automobile.
Period.
So while everyone's getting their jollies off bashing Texas based on one ignorant person's myopic view of the law, I'm trying to focus the conversation on haircuts, salons, and customer service, which I'm pretty sure was the point in the first place.
Any contrary evidence you can find to support the "(In Texas, you can put a lien on anything for any reason.)" claim in the original article, I'd love to see it. The statement, taken on it's own, flies directly in the face of common sense. You mean I can put a lien on my neighbor's cat because I like it?
I can put a lien on a house I drove by because I hate the shutters?
Starting to see the obvious holes in the logic here?
It's a boneheaded statement, and it takes a bonehead to use it to bash Texas. There's plenty wrong with Texas, but there's plenty wrong with a lot of states. The lien issue described here is farcical.
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]]>I can't believe the owner of the salon even knew what a lien was and how to obtain it. How many on this website (of arguably pretty intelligent consumers) even know that? I'm impressed.
That being said, I would have stood on the side of the road in front of the store with a huge sign saying "look at what this salon did to my hair" until I felt like I'd taken enough flesh out of them.
]]>The article says a worker was quoted as saying her hair was damaged already, but fails to mention if this was brought to attention before the perm process begun.
If she was informed that her hair was already damaged and that a perm would cause even more, possibly severe damage and she went through with it anyway, then she deserves nothing.
]]>@aphex242: Actually, it does, since a lot of the talk here is centered around the ability to place a lien on anything.
]]>@youbastid: Thank you. That's pretty much what I was going to say. California is a) not as insane as Texas by a LONG shot, and b) supports a huge chunk of the economy.
]]>Thats what happens when you live in texas. I visited there for a very short time, and omg it seroiusly is the worst place on earth. I can see how laws like putting a lein on someones car for any reason would be considered ok to do.
]]>Yeah, just put a lien on the salon, problem solved.
]]>@testsicles: There's a very good reason that everyone doesn't have a Flowbee.
]]>Flowbee for the win. I cut my hair in the summer and let it grow wild all winter. I couldn't relate less to this article.
]]>Deflecting this issue to some kind of silly anti-state one is not only pointless but it completely misses the point.
]]>You can't get your hair wet for 24hrs after getting a perm!
]]>@Smackdown: Well, there's one hell of a dropoff between 5 and 15. Craigslist, I believe, is the 12th largest economy in the world.
Ahh, I'm just joshin'. I like Texas. 'Cept for the executing retards part.
]]>Not to blame the victim, cause her treatment was horrible, and I'm glad she got her money back... but this is why you ask friends with awesome hair where they go, before you step into a place. Shelly's Hair and Care might not sound so snazzy, but they might do a better job than the people at John Frieda, because it's not actually John Frieda doing your hair.
]]>Farklefish, what a great revenge idea! So impressed! I was a hairdresser, and my advice is: if you're doing anything remotely chemical (color/straightening/perms) it's worth it to go to a GREAT stylist and ask the receptionist if you can come in for a 15 minute consultation on a day BEFORE you come in. Let the stylist talk to you, check out your hair, and have a plan of action. This will also ensure they have the correct supplies and enough time booked to make sure you get a perfect job. You have to go to a decent salon too. Make sure they seem professional and are paying attention to what you are saying. Sure, expensive stylists are going to present you with a big bill when you're done, but you will more than likely LOVE your hair and if anything goes wrong they will not give you grief like these schmos did.
]]>oh god i would probably sue them to the ground if they did that to my hair!
]]>@boandmichele: The difference between TX and CA is that as the 5th largest economy in the world, CA pays for a great deal of the rest of the country. Careful what you wish for.
]]>I have never heard of anything like this happening, that is insane. Poor woman! I hope there wasn't any permanent damage.
]]>@karlrove:
Lien on a leftist.
]]>I know nothing about the many no-show appointments he had the following April Fool's Day, nor the following New Year's Eve (I understand that's a big-business day for salons). Must have been some teenage pranksters. My word.
]]>I chop at my hair with dull kitchen knives.
]]>Well not really. If I understand correctly they are also paying the claim.
]]>Well, crap. I'm putting a lien all sorts of things I see now. Giant SUV? Lien. McMansion? Lien! PS3 and Wii? Lien!!
]]>Make checks payable to C.A.S.H. and send them to my soon to be reserved PO Box.
]]>And you didn't hear the gunshot because you were in the shower?
]]>Is part of the confidentiality settlement posting this awful experience on Consumerist?
]]>Late yesterday, I spoke with their attorney and they made a correction on the suit. So we have settled...
She didn't say if the revised 'settlement' still included a no-fault, or non-disclosure clause. If it did, oops! Back to square one.
]]>Fucking rednecks and their liens
]]>So is the majority of that alopecia a result of the perm or was it a pre-existing condition? I hope she got money for damages past the cost of the perm!
]]>People still get perms?
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