Off I go to get my haircut. Rather than travel into the nearest town and use my regular barber, I visit a barbers that is beside my home. I go in and the place is empty, I get chatting to the girl and she tells me business is slack blah blah blah(odd my barbers is always jam packed). So afterwards I said,"well sure now you've got one more regular customer anyway!" and paid.................

£8 for a ****ing haircut!
That is why you don't have any customers ffs! Even with the cost of travel to the local town it still wouldn't cost £8 for a haircut.

 

Christ id nearly travel over to England for a Bazzer from Ireland, Thats cheap!, Im paying €16 for one!

Id rather be bald!

 

Very odd posting. £8 is more than reasonable - I think it's what my local hairdressers charge for my 10 minute clipper cut. I usually give £10 with a cheery "keep the change" so as they put prices up they're only going to eat into the tip!

DN

 

£5 at my local barbers

 

Down south it's £13

Up Norf I pay £6

 

£10??? now thats is a joke of a price! I would expect that from maybe a hairdressers in Belfast centre but not in a small town.

I am now on the hunt for some clippers as it seems I could be quids in within 2/3 haircuts.

 

Its not that odd. If I owned a struggling business I would check out of my competition and see why they are busy and I am not, being upto 25% more expensive than other barbers would make me rethink my pricing structure.

 

I pay £8 to have my hair cut (short back and sides) and don't think it's unreasonable really

 

£11 for a hair cut and beard trim.. hardly that expensive

 

£5 up north for me in my small Market town with 4hairdressers

She always gets a quid tip as she is fit too

 

£9.50 to queue with a bunch or rioters in waiting.

 

£8 is cheap. So are you by the sound of it!

 

I still don't get it. Given the two options below, which would most people chose:

1. Pay £4 (going cheap now) for a haircut "in town", but have to pay £2 for a return bus fare that takes 20 mins each way - then a 5 minute walk to the barbers. THEN (as it's "always jam packed") have to wait another 15 minutes before I actually get to sit down. With a 10 minute haircut (even assuming that the bus-stop is outside your house) this is 1hr 10 mins total.

2. Pay £8 for a haircut at a barbers next door to where you live - which doesnt have much trade and you can be in and out in 10 mins total.

Saving 1hr for £2 - seems like a no-brainer to me.

DN

 

Be thankful you're not a girl!

 

Thats all fine and well but from a business point of view, why wait in the hope of charging someone £8 when you could reduce your pricing to £6, be competitive and have people actually using your business.

Forgive me as I only have GCSE's but £8 for 1 haircut within 1 hour is less turnover than doing 3 haircuts at £6 each within an hour. All because someone hasn't done their homework on local pricing.

 

Exactly what I do, except mine has gone up to £8.50 now.

and the one near work I go to is on the edge of potential "riot land". Hoodies, multiple tatoos and staffies. Hairdressers that are now too old for the game. Really is one those places where you sit and think "thank f*** I dont live around here".

 

£10 here with "Slasher"

 

I wouldn't mind paying £8, I pay about £12 to get mine cut

 

If you want a cheap short back and sides - go to a barber who will likely charge you £5.

If you go to a unisex salon you will end up paying a bit more. My wife has her own salon and a gents cut is a tenner. If it's a quick trim ala Barbers then she'll charge a bit less.

£8 IMO is a good price for a salon haircut.

 

£8 in my local barber.

Chip

 

I pay £12 at the local unisex salon. It's worth it though to have a pair of ******* bouncing up and down in your face

 

Costs me £14 for a haircut, so that £8's pretty cheap you miserable focker

 

aye but you live in a posh area, I live near larne!

 

you better not stop off for a trim in primrose hill then, works out £25 plus tip! that is in a uni. Though does include the wash and head massage ( as in scalp before anyone gets dirty).

 

£8. Staggering.

 

I pay £5 and that includes a tip.

 

Errrrrrmm I feel like I'm being ripped off now £37.50 for hair cut and Turkish shave :s

 

Wow I think you are too haha

 

I was talking to a Bar maid years ago in one of my local pubs. She worked as a Hair dresser, and obviously was trying to drum up a bit of business for herself by advertising to the locals that she could cut their hair for them instead of their usual Barber.

Only she wanted £40

I said, I'm only paying that if it's a cut and Blow

 

Turkish shave ???? Is that Back,Sack and Crack