technically
you could argue that they had breached their contract to cut your hair with due care and skill blah blah blah.

or you could do a runner. technically it's not theft if you don't formulate the intention until AFTER you've had the service. this goes for eating out too. of course the problem is proving it.

"no your honour, i only decided after i'd chosen the food and shoved it down my fat throat with both piggy little trotters".
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 18 Jan 2011, 17:01, 3 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

But they might argue
'We are hairdressers not magicians, this is why Bob doesn't look like Brad Pitt after his annual trim'
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Tue 18 Jan 2011, 17:02, Reply)

it would have to be a genuinely incompetent
butcher hack of a haircut. my friend did it in toni&guy when they set her head on fire with highlights.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 18 Jan 2011, 17:03, Reply)

Agreed. I don't think that "I don't like it" cuts, here.
It would have to be bad from a technical point of view. Like, as you eloquently point out, being on fire.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 18 Jan 2011, 17:05, Reply)

What about if it's not what you asked for and I have photoes of what I asked for!
and the result does not look the same.
( SteveFrench Cardio is for homo's. do you even lift bro?, Tue 18 Jan 2011, 17:14, Reply)

well, unless the photo was of you
then it can't look the same.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 18 Jan 2011, 17:19, Reply)

damn you and your logic
I also strongly object to why hairdressers insist on continuing to cut when you've said 'that's enough of the length off now' several bloody times.
( SteveFrench Cardio is for homo's. do you even lift bro?, Tue 18 Jan 2011, 17:21, Reply)

Because they are cutting some sort style into it
In such a way that when your hair grows, it doesn't lose the style straight away, maybe?
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Tue 18 Jan 2011, 17:22, Reply)

fair enough but surely I can choose the length!

( SteveFrench Cardio is for homo's. do you even lift bro?, Tue 18 Jan 2011, 17:31, Reply)

You could go back and says
'You cut my hair last week to this style, but I'm having trouble getting to it look like this, can you show me what to do?'

Good customer service would probably see them correct the problem.
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Tue 18 Jan 2011, 17:20, Reply)

yeah but
as a response, "plastic surgery and a fucking miracle" often offends.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 18 Jan 2011, 17:22, Reply)

heh

( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Tue 18 Jan 2011, 17:22, Reply)

it's a good job i can get basic contract law principles right., given my job!
if you were satisfied and made no fuss at the time, i'd say that the technical legal term for pursuing it now would be SHAFTED.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 18 Jan 2011, 17:21, Reply)

yeah ... or, possibly, WELL SHAFTED.
would you say that was a basic principle? I'd always thought services like that could be really grey areas, legally?
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 18 Jan 2011, 17:23, Reply)

sale of goods and services act
it depends on so many things and it's really outside my area of expertise as a property litigator, so i wouldn't actually want to risk advising anyone on a specific case in a serious capacity!
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 18 Jan 2011, 17:30, Reply)

for the record I don't want to pursue it.

( SteveFrench Cardio is for homo's. do you even lift bro?, Tue 18 Jan 2011, 17:24, Reply)

Well what do you want Bob?
What. Do. You. Want?
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Tue 18 Jan 2011, 17:28, Reply)

TO KNOW IF ANYONE ELSE HAS BLOODY REFUSED TO PAY FOR A HAIRCUT
and whether or not it's bad form to do so.
( SteveFrench Cardio is for homo's. do you even lift bro?, Tue 18 Jan 2011, 17:32, Reply)

Just use a different place next time.
And put it down to experience.
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Tue 18 Jan 2011, 17:37, Reply)

Have you ever gone all legal on someone before in a restaurant or similar?

( SteveFrench Cardio is for homo's. do you even lift bro?, Tue 18 Jan 2011, 17:03, Reply)

of course
not in a restaurant, as i don't want special sauce, but yeah with all sorts of companies.

you're not supposed to play the "i'm a solicitor" card, but it just slips out.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 18 Jan 2011, 17:04, Reply)

I think it's a much more dignified card to play than
'do you know who I am?' I was out with some friends who play for Bristol rugby team and one of them said that it was awful.
( SteveFrench Cardio is for homo's. do you even lift bro?, Tue 18 Jan 2011, 17:07, Reply)

It's much, much more funny when you aren't anyone, though.
I might have done that as a joke in the East India Club last year just before a friends wedding. Genius. Possibly.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 18 Jan 2011, 17:12, Reply)

That was half the problem at the time he wasn't regular first team choice
and it was to get into a place called the Lizard Lounge which is not a classy venue.
( SteveFrench Cardio is for homo's. do you even lift bro?, Tue 18 Jan 2011, 17:13, Reply)

yeah .. that's not good.
I just thought it was funny because they were looking at me like they really wanted to throw me out.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 18 Jan 2011, 17:17, Reply)

It's better to front it out in a restaurant than leg it
If you've reached an approximation of a verbal settlement on what you are paying you're basically free and clear.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 18 Jan 2011, 17:04, Reply)