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My Brief Bitch Session

July 7, 2008
Evil Beet
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Okay, so I have to tell you guys this story.

When I was in New York City with my sister, we got spray tans. I think I mentioned this previously. We were just wandering around the West Village, and we saw this spray tan place called Color Tanning, and I was like, “Ooh, let’s get spray tans!”

We went inside and talked to the girl there, and she said it would be $90 each for the spray tans. Now, that was pretty steep, but I figured, hey, we’re in New York, and this would be a fun thing to do with my little sister. So I said okay, sure, let’s go for it.

So we get our spray tans, and we look damn good, not too orange, and I generally feel it’s worth the money. Plus the girl gives us these little kits of lotions for our face and bodies, and the lotions are awesome, and it’s all good.

Today, I check my credit card bill online, and Color Tanning has charged me for over $450. I figure there must be some mistake, so I call them up to explain the situation. I talked to the same girl who did our spray tans, and she was like, “Oh, well the tans were $90 and the lotion kits were $120.” I was like “WHAT???” There was NO FREAKING MENTION of those lotion kits costing me ANYTHING. She gave them to use like they were freebies that came along with a $90 freaking tan! Absolutely NO HINT that the fucking lotion kits cost MORE THAN THE TAN. I mean, in fairness, I guess I did sign the credit card receipt without looking too carefully, but still. That shit should be illegal. You should have to tell people when you’re selling them something and not act like it’s free so that you can get a commission on it.

I called my sister to tell her about it, and to warn her not to spill a drop of this precious, precious lotion, and she was like “You should report her to the Better Business Bureau!” And I was like, “Eh, that’s too much work,” and then she was like, “You know what? You should BLOG about it!” And I was like, “Oooh, I like that idea much better.”

So anyway.

COLOR TANNING.

IN MANHATTAN’S WEST VILLAGE.

SUCKS.

48 CommentsLeave a comment

  • Man that does SUX. I could c u excited about ur tan&lotion just putting ur signature down but a “oh by the way that will b 120 per kit” would a been nice. U SUX COLOR TANNING!

  • you should report them AND dispute the charge with your credit card. F them.
    also, i love when non-ny-ers say “new york *CITY*…so cute…

  • Actually I think the first way you start on that problem is call your credit card company (get the name and number of who you’re talking to) file a complaint and ask them not to pay, then if I remember correctly the credit card company will fight the dispute for you. Good luck, that’s bullshit!!!!!

  • UGH that would piss me the fuck off! Good blogging about it, but I think you need to write and send a strongly worded letter to the head of Color Tan!

  • G’day from Down under. Damn. I hate to admit it Evil Beet, but I’ve kinda developed a crush on you… I hate that. That does me absolutely no good… unless you are coming to Sydney on a holiday… then I can be your Aussie sherpa. Ha ha.

    I must just be a softy for cute, sarcastic, quick witted sheilas with paper mache bone structure. :-)

    That being said, “Boo! Boo, to you” for not posting the before and after tan pics.

    X

  • You should have asked to speak to the manager and demanded a full refund and the lotion as a gift

  • Ha, I need you guys to call for me. I’m so bad at real-life confrontation. I do much better in print. I’m actually surprisingly nice and wussy in real life. Ask anyone.

  • Beet, it’s OVER TWO HUNDRED DOLLARS. Get on the phone! Have a friend over for moral support if you have to.

  • everyone gets fooled once
    you won’t be a second time victim
    remember you signed the deal and didn’t look at the mentioned price
    she can always say that you knew the price
    because in fairness we should look before we sign
    but I admit sometimes we’re distracted with something else
    Anyway, NYC is a nice place to go to, but a place full of businesses that do the same that happened to you is so many ways
    Remember those stores that sell cameras,DVD players,cellphones,etc
    never do any kind of business there!

  • Hey Evil Beet… you can take care of this without real-life confrontation. The New York BBB can advocate for you… just file a complaint and then let them deal with it! Per the BBB NY website: “Historically, over 70% of complaints filed through BBB are resolved. In some cases, BBB mediation or arbitration may be offered to assist in resolution.”

    Contact the BBB NY via web and provide them a few tidbits of information at: https://odr.bbb.org/odrweb/public/complaintlink.aspx.

    Worst case scenario, you get to get it off your chest (he he he ;-))… best case scenario, you are given some sort of refund.

    Wow, this internet thing provides information about anything anywhere… who’da thunk it? :-) You can even look to see if anyone filed a complaint against them before.

    Hope the foot is doing better!

  • If I were you I’d find the tanning place’s mailing address, get an empty box and address it in care of the girl that scammed you.. then take a giant crap in the box and mail it to her directly. Some people need to be taught a lesson. What’s her name? I’ll do it for you.

  • First mistake? Spending ninety dollars on a freaking spray tan. You were totally robbed, as those things typically cost MUCH MUCH less.
    Second mistake – not looking at the charge slip. I bet you’ll never do that again!!! :)

  • @Down Unda:

    Yeah, I know, I can see the IP addresses of the comments. :) Hee hee. I know where you all live.

  • I was coming back 2 read the helpful advice given & I was about 2 say Down Unda my eyes did a double take cuz 1st helpful then Pervy when I saw u defend ur self<3.

  • Yeah, not me. If I was going to be pervy I’d at least do it with a little panache. :-) Ha ha.

  • Beet – I’m the same as you…I hate confrontation. Call the CC company and dispute it. They side with the cardholder 99% of the time and usually don’t even look at your signature slip. That’s fucking crazy!

  • Yes, call your CC company. It’s actually very painless — I’ve called AMEX a few times about BS charges (that means YOU, Toshiba!) and they were surprisingly sweet about it and had my back.

  • Yeah, um. Dispute the charge with the credit card. Call and tell them that you didn’t authorize anything over $180 and the rest was fraudulent, and they’ll do the rest for you.

    So sorry, that would suck massively. :(

  • Fucking crooks. I’d call the credit card company and have them refuse payment. Those people were dishonest with you.

  • Beet, you admitted you signed the charge slip without looking at it.

    I think that this time you’re probably on the hook for this, since it’s your responsibility to actually look at the bills you sign.

    Unless, of course, *your* copy of the credit card slip has a different price on it than the “450.00” you quoted above… You *did* keep your receipt, didn’t you? (I really hope you did, otherwise you’re just really irresponsible and pretty much asking to get ripped off!)

    If your receipt has an amount less than what you were billed, call your credit card company. They’ll refund the overage to you. Otherwise, you didn’t really get ripped off as much as you didn’t pay attention to your own money, which is not really your card company’s responsibility.

    Good luck with a lesson learned Beet, but at least your tan looks good, right?

  • Wow – talk about aggressive retailing! Well, if you’re ever in DC I run a mobile Air Brush tanning company – Glow. For $50 bucks I can come to your hotel, office or home and make you tan and fabulous. No retail at all – I promise!
    glowdc@gmail.com

  • You should pull a Naomi and walk in the joint and throw those fucking lotion bottles in that whore’s face!!! What a piece of shit!

  • If I didn’t live in Canada, and lived in New York, I would go vandalize these assholes. I would spray paint a big evil beet on their wiiondow. LOL. But I really would, because I love you.

  • beet! ok, i’m not sure if you were just in a hurry or if you are really that naive, but they are salespeople so they are not going to offer information that may potentially cause you to refuse their product – you’re an adult & it’s your job to ask how much things are going to cost you. look at the total before you sign it – once you sign it you’re kind of screwed. if your receipt shows a different charge amount then you need to call your credit card company ASAP! good luck.

  • Theft by deception, call your card company and complain – I bet you won’t be the first person to do so.

  • you really should report them too. although now that you blogged it your one new york reader will go in there and say OH NO HELL NO YOU ARENT GIVING ME THAT LOTION!

  • Beet, I agree with most of these comments–even though you should always look at the receipt, that salesperson took advantage of you. Start with your credit card company and take it from there.

  • @Down Unda:

    You get the awesome award of the day for fitting “panache” into a normal convo. That’s my goal for the week…. trying to fit “panache” into a sentence and make it work. Next week…. “Malarky”.

  • of course she has our IPs
    once we could even see in this site how many people were commenting and where from(country)
    I miss those details
    I admit it
    so she knows where I am
    even in which part of my country I am
    in case she wants to

  • Well, I charged $45 for spray tans, and gave free spray tan kits, and people still thought it was too much!
    Come to Australia for your tan, we are really nice people here.

  • That’s plain bullshit. Was it a fuckin dumbass like those ‘Olly’ bitches on Sunset Tan? THEN I might understand! ;)

    And to the 2nd comment-myself being a ‘non-ny-er’-if you just said New York w/out the ‘city’ wouldn’t that be in reference to the WHOLE state?! You make no sense to me. hmmmmmmmmmm…

  • ill tell you what, they have some hot men on there website thingerr! but thats wrong i would call the BBB i would go off on them and dont forget to act like us new yorkers either! you gotta be grouchy =] haha

  • Oh Beet, you’ve gone and got everyone all riled up and now you have a willing mob on your hands. What will you?

  • If it makes y ou feel better I will never ever go there, and they have lost my potential buisness. I live in Colorado and don’t think I’ll be in New York City anytime soon, but still.