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Men's barber prices

  • 27-07-2020 7:35pm
    #1
    leroy d
    Registered Users Posts: 18 ✭


    Popped into Fat Tonys for a hair trim in Oranmore. Pre covid the price was €13. Price is now €24!. Nearly 100% price increase!. I hsve bern a customer there for several years, but not anymore. I reckon there are gonna be alot of long haired hippies hanging around Oranmore. Me thinks fat Tony needs to go on a diet.


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  • #2
    flazio
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,249 ✭✭✭✭flazio


    Power of your feet. Don't like it, go elsewhere. Big thread about it in the city forum.


  • #3
    StonedRaider
    Registered Users Posts: 450 ✭✭StonedRaider


    Walking through the city last Thursday after lunchtime and a lot of these guys places were empty. The barbers hanging outside smoking


  • #4
    leroy d
    Registered Users Posts: 18 ✭leroy d


    StonedRaider wrote: »
    Walking through the city last Thursday after lunchtime and a lot of these guys places were empty. The barbers hanging outside smoking
    Hate to see local business struggle, but Mr. Fat Tony needs to get a grip. These are difficult times where our economy is on its knees. Value for money will win out in the end. The rip off effort will fall on its sword.


  • #5
    spurshero
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    leroy d wrote: »
    Popped into Fat Tonys for a hair trim in Oranmore. Pre covid the price was €13. Price is now €24!. Nearly 100% price increase!. I hsve bern a customer there for several years, but not anymore. I reckon there are gonna be alot of long haired hippies hanging around Oranmore. Me thinks fat Tony needs to go on a diet.

    I got it could a couple times in oranmore and it was 18 pre Covid . Your going back a while since it was 13 or else you were on a special deal !


  • #6
    leroy d
    Registered Users Posts: 18 ✭leroy d


    spurshero wrote: »
    I got it could a couple times in oranmore and it was 18 pre Covid . Your going back a while since it was 13 or else you were on a special deal !

    Definitly €13 pre covid. I had been going there for several years and would always hand over €15 and leave the €2 change as a tip.


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  • #7
    spurshero
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    leroy d wrote: »
    Definitly €13 pre covid. I had been going there for several years and would always hand over €15 and leave the €2 change as a tip.

    Well that’s worse again if there charging different prices to different customers . Is it still open somebody told me last night it was closed


  • #8
    kheb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 85 ✭✭kheb


    The €24 includes a booking fee which saves queueing for up to an hour surrounded by numerous people. It’s worth paying in a pandemic and probably worth paying in normal times. The price pre Covid was €18 or €19.


  • #9
    leroy d
    Registered Users Posts: 18 ✭leroy d


    kheb wrote: »
    The €24 includes a booking fee which saves queueing for up to an hour surrounded by numerous people. It’s worth paying in a pandemic and probably worth paying in normal times. The price pre Covid was €18 or €19.
    My visit to Fat Tony's in Oranmore was without booking. Straight in the door and no crowds. Pre covid the price of a cut here was definitely €13


  • #10
    spurshero
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,796 ✭✭✭spurshero


    kheb wrote: »
    The €24 includes a booking fee which saves queueing for up to an hour surrounded by numerous people. It’s worth paying in a pandemic and probably worth paying in normal times. The price pre Covid was €18 or €19.

    Well I paid 18e the last couple times I was in there pre Covid . Another poster is insisting it was 13 e lprobaly was for him I can only speak for meself and me own wallet and it was definitely 18 the last 2 visits .


  • #11
    bodhrandude
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,641 ✭✭✭✭bodhrandude


    Bump:
    Best one for me is the Best Barber and Hairdresser shop in main street Salthill, run by a barber from the Lebanon, just got a cut on Tuesday at 13 Euro and he shaved my furry eyebrows too. A decent job at an affordable price :)

    If you want to get into it, you got to get out of it. (Hawkwind 1982)



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  • #12
    FileNotFound
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    kheb wrote: »
    The €24 includes a booking fee which saves queueing for up to an hour surrounded by numerous people. It’s worth paying in a pandemic and probably worth paying in normal times. The price pre Covid was €18 or €19.

    That's a cheap trick for sure. Pretty piss poor.

    A lot of businesses have struggled along during this only surviving due to government supports that the tax payer will have to foot.

    Ripping off the tax payer after this is pretty low..


  • #13
    JustAThought
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,324 ✭✭✭JustAThought


    FileNotFound wrote: »
    That's a cheap trick for sure. Pretty piss poor.

    A lot of businesses have struggled along during this only surviving due to government supports that the tax payer will have to foot.

    Ripping off the tax payer after this is pretty low..


    Customer - not taxpayer! C’mon!!

    So there’s a booking fee now so people know they will have a slot and his time and the slot won’t be entirely wasted they don’t turn up.

    Plus they have more compliance overheads to pay for - disposable gowns, disposable towels, more in between cleaning of seats/counters/walls etc all of which costs money along with the masks and customer dividers etc now takes time & will decrease the number of hair cutting slots in the day.

    Be fair! from e18 to that when you consider all the new overheads and covid safety
    compliance rules and the price of all those disinfectant sprays and a booking fee to ensure no Q’ing in the rain - its a small & understandable .


  • #14
    kheb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 85 ✭✭kheb


    €5 extra for the convenience of booking and not waiting for up to an hour on a busy Friday evening or Saturday is good value to me but maybe not to others.


  • #15
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Just to agree with what other people have been saying
    Fat Tonys was €18 for a dry cut prior to covid for an adult, and has been for years.

    There are different prices for OAPs, students and children, as well as for beard trims. Maybe one of those was €13


  • #16
    aw
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 786 ✭✭✭aw


    kheb wrote: »
    €5 extra for the convenience of booking and not waiting for up to an hour on a busy Friday evening or Saturday is good value to me but maybe not to others.

    Definitely agree.
    Avoiding the painful slow passing of time while you watch every hair being trimmed on the lad ahead of you... €5 is well worth it.


  • #17
    beardybrewer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,926 ✭✭✭beardybrewer


    Unless you need something fancy just get one of these: https://smile.amazon.co.uk/Remington-Clippers-Lengths-Trimming-Detailing/dp/B012F8MS9A/ref=sxin_11_trr_3082239031_2?cv_ct_cx=clippers+hair&dchild=1&keywords=clippers+hair&pd_rd_i=B012F8MS9A&pd_rd_r=0796acd7-73b1-445e-b084-ccc6f0c5a2aa&pd_rd_w=e2OJE&pd_rd_wg=pck7L&pf_rd_p=1d13bff8-47cf-4a87-a6dc-3d450fd9093d&pf_rd_r=2J964SWEDCPF3GR8JX5H&qid=1620925832&sr=1-3-439ac954-ad46-4ba0-bd86-480f8aab80ed


  • #18
    Calahonda52
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    beardybrewer wrote: »
    Unless you need something fancy just get one of these: https://smile.amazon.co.uk/Remington-Clippers-Lengths-Trimming-Detailing/dp/B012F8MS9A/ref=sxin_11_trr_3082239031_2?cv_ct_cx=clippers+hair&dchild=1&keywords=clippers+hair&pd_rd_i=B012F8MS9A&pd_rd_r=0796acd7-73b1-445e-b084-ccc6f0c5a2aa&pd_rd_w=e2OJE&pd_rd_wg=pck7L&pf_rd_p=1d13bff8-47cf-4a87-a6dc-3d450fd9093d&pf_rd_r=2J964SWEDCPF3GR8JX5H&qid=1620925832&sr=1-3-439ac954-ad46-4ba0-bd86-480f8aab80ed

    The above link is for the right tool for the job.
    This is the reverse.
    https://eu.manscaped.com/?redirect=1&_ga=2.97076504.680206845.1620926205-703730691.1620926205

    “I can’t pay my staff or mortgage with instagram likes”.



  • #19
    ThebitterLemon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,629 ✭✭✭ThebitterLemon


    New barber in Salthill Top Fade seems very reasonable and actually takes his time doing your hair.

    Was in there on Monday and was happy with price and service

    TbL


  • #20
    Bobeagleburger
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 45,734 ✭✭✭✭Bobeagleburger


    It's become pretty clear to me that most mens haircuts aren't that complex, and can be pretty much nailed after a dozen attempts.

    Decent scissors and clippers obviously required.

    No doubt the more complex ones need more expertise.

    I know a lot of people that will continue to get clipped at home and avoid the inevitable price gouging.


  • #21
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    The Upper Cut barbers in Knocknacarra (beside Cappagh Stores) is €16 for a regular men's cut appointment (30mins slot).


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  • #22
    [Deleted User]
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    6 wrote: »
    It's become pretty clear to me that most mens haircuts aren't that complex, and can be pretty much nailed after a dozen attempts.

    Decent scissors and clippers obviously required.

    No doubt the more complex ones need more expertise.

    I know a lot of people that will continue to get clipped at home and avoid the inevitable price gouging.

    Yup, my wife started cutting mine during the first lockdown and that has continued since. I've also gotten much better at keeping the beard tidy.

    All in all, saving me 20 quid every 3 weeks


  • #23
    dinneenp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,151 ✭✭✭dinneenp


    JustAThought wrote: »
    Customer - not taxpayer! C’mon!!

    So there’s a booking fee now so people know they will have a slot and his time and the slot won’t be entirely wasted they don’t turn up.

    Plus they have more compliance overheads to pay for - disposable gowns, disposable towels, more in between cleaning of seats/counters/walls etc all of which costs money along with the masks and customer dividers etc now takes time & will decrease the number of hair cutting slots in the day.

    Be fair! from e18 to that when you consider all the new overheads and covid safety
    compliance rules and the price of all those disinfectant sprays and a booking fee to ensure no Q’ing in the rain - its a small & understandable .

    Every barber has virtually thr same additional Covid inflicted overheads, their prices haven't sky rocketed.


  • #24
    LillySV
    Registered Users Posts: 1,750 ✭✭✭LillySV


    Fat Tony’s in liosban was going up a euro or two each time I visited them in the year coming up to covid ... I thought they were getting greedy then... now they will use covid to charge even more ... best of luck to them if they find enough fools to pay for it... I went elsewhere and haven’t been anywhere near them since feb 20 or so! My wife actually cut my hair last and she probably did a better job than I got most of the time there


  • #25
    ?Cee?view
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    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    The Upper Cut barbers in Knocknacarra (beside Cappagh Stores) is €16 for a regular men's cut appointment (30mins slot).

    I’ve gone there for around the last year. Absolutely great service at a very reasonable price. I’ve never seen a place so clean and you can park right at the door. A1!


  • #26
    Wiggywiggle
    Registered Users Posts: 39 ✭Wiggywiggle


    Where’s the cheapest youve seen in the city or county? €20/22 out in oranmore,


  • #27
    ?Cee?view
    Registered Users Posts: 2,848 ✭✭✭?Cee?view


    Wiggywiggle wrote: »
    Where’s the cheapest youve seen in the city or county? €20/22 out in oranmore,

    Upper Cut, Cappagh Road. €16


  • #28
    Gremlinertia
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    Major fader is 15 according to OH who was up last week..


  • #29
    LillySV
    Registered Users Posts: 1,750 ✭✭✭LillySV


    16 in terryland barbers


  • #30
    Fitz*
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    Paid 18e, including the 5e booking fee in Fat Tony's middle Street the other day. Sound.

    Have heard that Cut Throat increased their prices again, and they are up to 27e now for the basic cut and the slots are reduced from 30 mins to 20 mins. Not impressed with that myself.


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  • #31
    StonedRaider
    Registered Users Posts: 450 ✭✭StonedRaider


    €27 for a dry/basic cut is seriously taking the piss.
    I know (from family and friends) a few barbers outside the city are charging that. Up from €17 to €20 after first lockdown. Now up 35% again in less than a year.


  • #32
    Wiggywiggle
    Registered Users Posts: 39 ✭Wiggywiggle


    StonedRaider wrote: »
    €27 for a dry/basic cut is seriously taking the piss.
    I know (from family and friends) a few barbers outside the city are charging that. Up from €17 to €20 after first lockdown. Now up 35% again in less than a year.

    Rip off galway in full flow. They’ll be complaining in 6 months that people are cutting their hair at home


  • #33
    Mr Man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 187 ✭✭Mr Man


    StonedRaider wrote: »
    €27 for a dry/basic cut is seriously taking the piss.
    I know (from family and friends) a few barbers outside the city are charging that. Up from €17 to €20 after first lockdown. Now up 35% again in less than a year.

    I'm happy to pay that for a good barber that takes their time and uses a scissors.
    I got mine done on Tuesday in Gallaghers on Dominck St.
    Was in the chair for 50 minutes and was charged €26 - told him to keep the €4.
    If you are in and out in 10 minutes - then yeah, €14 or whatever, is probably about right, but to work out if it is fair, you should be happy for your barber to earn min €15 p/h, but more like €18-€20 p/h and factor in costs, rent etc.


  • #34
    i_steal_sheep
    Registered Users Posts: 196 ✭✭i_steal_sheep


    Got mine cut in Fat Tony's in Oranmore, on Tuesday. €5 to book online and another €19 on the day. I was just shy of 40 minutes in the chair. I love being able to book a time slot and within a few minutes of that time actually sitting in the chair getting a cut as opposed to spending upwards of an hour waiting like in the past. It's also well worth it to get the barber you want. So I'm willing to pay the €5 but I'll be honest I'm not as generous with the tipping as a result... but the way I look at it, that's between John Maguire and his staff. I'm sure they will notice the reduction in tips and they'll be making their boss aware of that! I'm also not buying their own-branded products either any more.


  • #35
    [Deleted User]
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    I'm sitting here laughing at some of ye paying booking fee's. Are ye well?!?

    Would you pay to book a table in a restaurant?
    Would your partner pay to book in a hairdresser?
    Would you pay to book a time for your car in the local garage?

    If I was still going to the barbers I'm be telling them to take a running jump for a booking fee, either they want my business or they dont

    Booking fee, ha


  • #36
    Redkite200
    Registered Users Posts: 97 ✭✭Redkite200


    I'm sure there's still a few about where you can get your hair cut for 10-15 euro by someone decent.


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  • #37
    DeadSkin
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    Val's in Tuam 14 bucks!

    Reading 40-50 mins in the chair, Jebus what are ye getting done :pac:


  • #38
    Sleeper12
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    i_steal_sheep wrote:
    Got mine cut in Fat Tony's in Oranmore, on Tuesday. €5 to book online and another €19 on the day. I was just shy of 40 minutes in the chair. I love being able to book a time slot and within a few minutes of that time actually sitting in the chair getting a cut as opposed to spending upwards of an hour waiting like in the past. It's also well worth it to get the barber you want. So I'm willing to pay the €5 but I'll be honest I'm not as generous with the tipping as a result... but the way I look at it, that's between John Maguire and his staff. I'm sure they will notice the reduction in tips and they'll be making their boss aware of that! I'm also not buying their own-branded products either any more.


    40 minutes for a haircut???

    Is that typical time for everyone or do you have very long hair or something? If you don't mind me asking that is


  • #39
    Sleeper12
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    Deleted User wrote:
    Booking fee, ha


    I'm laughing at the 40 and 50 minutes in the chair thing.


  • #40
    gordongekko
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    I'm sitting here laughing at some of ye paying booking fee's. Are ye well?!?

    Would you pay to book a table in a restaurant?
    Would your partner pay to book in a hairdresser?
    Would you pay to book a time for your car in the local garage?

    If I was still going to the barbers I'm be telling them to take a running jump for a booking fee, either they want my business or they dont

    Booking fee, ha


    Restaurant's Do charge it in places just to make sure you show up. It's the same here.


  • #41
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    gordongekko wrote: »
    Restaurant's Do charge it in places just to make sure you show up. It's the same here.

    Outside of JP's places during race week, I'd say you would be hard pushed to find any restaurant asking you to pay a fee to book a table


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  • #42
    ben.schlomo
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    gordongekko wrote: »
    Restaurant's Do charge it in places just to make sure you show up. It's the same here.

    I've never heard of anywhere in Galway asking for such a fee. Can you give us an example of somewhere regularly doing this?


  • #43
    Tilikum17
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    Sleeper12 wrote: »
    I'm laughing at the 40 and 50 minutes in the chair thing.

    It’s ridiculous. I remember getting my hair cut in a certain barbers (mentioned above for putting his pricing up again) a couple of years back. You book online for a 30min slot. This lad was a Romanian cutting my hair. He spent more time spraying crap into my hair than he did cutting it. Literally just shaving the same spots over and over again.

    Absolute cringe.


  • #44
    Sleeper12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,155 ✭✭✭✭Sleeper12


    gordongekko wrote:
    Restaurant's Do charge it in places just to make sure you show up. It's the same here.


    Some restaurants do charge but it comes off the bill once you show up. Seems some barbers are charging it as an extra charge


  • #45
    Pussyhands
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    kheb wrote: »
    €5 extra for the convenience of booking and not waiting for up to an hour on a busy Friday evening or Saturday is good value to me but maybe not to others.

    5 euro is 5 euro.

    If your local shop offered to have your litre of milk ready for you when you came in instead of going down the aisles and they charged 5 euro for that service would you be as supportive?

    Businesses around the country are playing the poor mouth after getting money thrown at them all year.


  • #46
    Homelander
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    Sleeper12 wrote: »
    I'm laughing at the 40 and 50 minutes in the chair thing.


    Who can forget this classic thread last year.


  • #47
    kheb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 85 ✭✭kheb


    Pussyhands wrote: »
    5 euro is 5 euro.

    If your local shop offered to have your litre of milk ready for you when you came in instead of going down the aisles and they charged 5 euro for that service would you be as supportive?

    Businesses around the country are playing the poor mouth after getting money thrown at them all year.
    An hour of my time is worth €5 when waiting for a haircut. It’s also safer that having to queue indoors with COVID-19.


  • #48
    gordongekko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,301 ✭✭✭gordongekko


    Sleeper12 wrote: »
    Some restaurants do charge but it comes off the bill once you show up. Seems some barbers are charging it as an extra charge

    It does come off the price. It costs 24 euro , 5 euro deposit and you pay 19 after the cut


  • #49
    Sleeper12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,155 ✭✭✭✭Sleeper12


    gordongekko wrote:
    It does come off the price. It costs 24 euro , 5 euro deposit and you pay 19 after the cut


    Well if that is the case I don't see what people are giving out about. So it only costs you the 5 euros if you don't show up.


  • #50
    [Deleted User]
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    Sleeper12 wrote: »
    Some restaurants do charge but it comes off the bill once you show up. Seems some barbers are charging it as an extra charge
    gordongekko wrote: »
    It does come off the price. It costs 24 euro , 5 euro deposit and you pay 19 after the cut

    What restaurants in Galway charge money to make a booking/charged it before covid?

    Honestly intrigued as the only ones I know of were JP's during the race weeks when he was going cracked with no-shows and I'm not even sure if he went ahead with it


  • #51
    Sleeper12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,155 ✭✭✭✭Sleeper12


    Deleted User wrote:
    What restaurants in Galway charge money to make a booking/charged it before covid?


    I'm a Dub so I can't answer that. I was talking about in general restaurants have been charging booking fees /deposits for a few years now. In Dublin selfish people book a table in a city restaurant for 8pm for 10 people. Unfortunately they also booked another 3 or 4 restaurants for the same time. The 10 people meet in the pub first and then decide what restaurant they want to eat in. The other restaurant's now have a large empty table on a Saturday night. Booking deposit isn't unreasonable if the fee comes off the bill assuming you turn up. If you turn up then there is no fee.


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