Well been pretty busy at the shop and fell behind on the blog for awhile. I read an interesting post the other day where an artist was complaining about bargin shopping tattoos. Have one thing to say I guess to that person. "Wake up idiot and realize that there is a recession and people cannot afford your bullshit any longer". Hum well that was relief. Well anyways these are the artist who think they are worthy to receive your hard earn money and don't believe that you have no right to check prices. They also look down and rag on street shops because we do take care of the customer. One thing I usually say to them is "Our shop is up and running but where is yours?" See these artist don't understand economics very well. They are also the ones who like crying "Good tattoos are not cheap and cheap tattoos are no good". Again as their shop is closing because they do not know economics.
In this industry they believe all the artist must stick together to keep prices fixed at a certain level. Well I for one never really played well with others so I really make some waves in the industry. Oh well screw them they don't pay my bills anyways. The only respect I seek is from my customers, I do not seek the respect of any other shop out there. Some shops cringe when a shop like Aberration Pro Custom Tattoos opens up. Why? Because they know that pricing and quality will take the business every time. Heres a situation that really tickles the funny bone. You can sit in on one of their conversations and they complain about people buying a pair of shoes for example. Why would they spend that much money on shoes and not that much on tattoos? Well it's personal choice. Just because your a tattoo artist doesn't mean you can dictate someones spending habits.
Aberration Pro Custom Tattoos always posts a link to our portfolios in every advertisement. Potential clients can view those portfolios at any time before coming into the shop. We love all the haters out there because those shops really enhance our business. All the hate talk gives the customer the idea to check out our portfolios. So the hate talk turns into a positive for us because then a customer that hasn't heard about us then turns around to check us out. They check out our pics and then our business gets even busier. We always have a friendly shop. We involve our customers in every possible way from getting the tattoo or joining in on our weekend mini dance party. I guess you can say we are the destination to be.
So I guess the moral of the story here is that it is the customer who drives this industry and not the artist. One of these days artist will figure it out.