I have an email marketing/scheduling through www.schedulicity.com that is done 
every month with either specials or offers for everyone to receive a little 
helping hand from me in return I get them into my chair so that I can receive 
income to support my field as a manicurist & family.

EVERY offer has limitations and special guidelines that need to be observed as 
any other business there are provisions for everything and every different 
situation. 

As a Self Employed person I have to treat my business just as any main stream 
corporation needs to be run and all rules are made to be broken...Yes...But not 
all the time if I did that for everyone I would not be respected and treated 
with a business point of view...Everyone assumes that just cause I work for 
myself I should bend rules all the time, offer discounted pricing, wait to get 
paid, write bad checks to me, run 20/30 minutes late so that the rest of my day 
is messed up and all the other clients behind them are pissed at me...I'm sorry 
I'm trying to make a living here but for crying out loud I should be held with 
some regard and respect as a business professional just as you would any other 
business! 

If I had purchased a Gift Certificate/Card from Walmart, Target or Kholes and I 
either lost it or used half of it I don't think that they would honor any part 
of 100% of my money that I used to purchase it....DO YOU? 

We all run and think of our business profession very differently and as I have 
been burned so many times before in the past 14 years of business....This is 
how I run my show.


Anna
Creations by Anna Z-James 
www.annazjames.com


 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Pati <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Sun, Nov 14, 2010 9:44 pm
Subject: Re: NailTech:: Help!


hmm... good point Dawn... I would do what someone else said...honor the money 
but not the special price after the expiration date... but I would think that 
would have to be spelled out somewhere....maybe????


Pati

'Good friends are like stars... 
You don't always see them, But you know they are always there.



-----Original Message-----
From: swtips <[email protected]>
To: nailtech <[email protected]>
Sent: Sun, Nov 14, 2010 6:41 pm
Subject: Re: NailTech:: Help!


 

 But is it a gift certificate when it is a special purchase?   I know the 
regular rules and laws for gift certificates but this sounded like a special 
like buy one get one kind of deal.  Are you allowed to expire that.??  Just 
thinkin and askin????
Dawn
[email protected]
Lancaster.PA


 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Pati <[email protected]>
To: nailtech <[email protected]>
Sent: Sun, Nov 14, 2010 8:08 pm
Subject: Re: NailTech:: Help!


In NY you have to honor a GC...no expiration dates allowed.  Well... you can 
PUT them on the Gc ( to encourage speedy use) but you have to honor them past 
the expiration date...OR you can refuse to honor it but have to send the money 
that the client spent to "unclaimed funds" in the governmental offices 
somewhere.... like really... who does that? But I think that makes sense..IF 
someone spends the money it shouldn't expire.


Pati

'Good friends are like stars... 
You don't always see them, But you know they are always there.



-----Original Message-----
From: Anna Z-James <[email protected]>
To: nailtech <[email protected]>
Sent: Sun, Nov 14, 2010 7:39 am
Subject: Re: NailTech:: Help!


 I am at an AWW with clients period they expect that you are their savior their 
super woman and want S##t for FREE all the time or expect that you shouldn't 
have a life or make time for yourself or your family, as if being a manicurist 
was my hobby or something....

I recently ran a special that if you pre-purchased a pedicure your received the 
a 2nd 1/2 off I had a client purchase the 2 certificates that had expiration 
dates on them...(Mind you she is not my only client and I don't have a memory 
of steal)...She came in got a pedicure and paid cash, 2 weeks later she said 
"oh I forgot to use my certificate" I stated to her bring it in and use it 
before it expires the next time because I didn't remember that you purchased 
them...She called to tell me that it had already expired....Well if you'd like 
I can honor it at half off...Now both of the certificates are expired cause she 
brought them both in for me to look at....I'm sorry the most I can do is 1 
pedicure at half off, the special was designed so that you would come in and 
maintenance your feet regularly, 1 for each month I can not honor the special 
as they are already 2 months expired, not to mention that if you had a gift 
card from Target or any other major store and it was expired they wouldn't 
honor it either.

Lynette - You did the best job you could have done to satisfy this client and 
yet she still did not respect your profession enough to allow you to do your 
job correctly nor did she respect the fact that you were using a professional 
product on her...Tell that poorlittle woman that you can't warranty the product 
that she purchasedfrom QVC cause it is not a professional product that you 
carry nor doservices with...had it been a product that you carried or used for 
yourservices that you would have warrantee it...Sorry...I'm also really baffled 
by the fact that she said she couldn't afford the services from you however she 
purchased a $30 item from QVC then turned around and asked you to used it on 
her rather then she do it her self....WOW! 

 
This is mybusiness not my hobby...I do not receive a paycheck from a 
majorcorporation and I am the boss....I can not continue to keep giving upmy 
time and services to others that have not made my time for services as a 
priority or the respect of my business any more!  I work veryhard, pay lots of 
money for products and rent, marketing, website, cellphone and other items to 
satisfy my clients needs.  My job as a selfemployed manicurist is to service 
and satisfy not only the clients butmy pockets as well. 


Anna
Creations by Anna Z-James 
www.annazjames.com


 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Rhonda Kibuk <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Sun, Nov 14, 2010 6:38 am
Subject: Re: NailTech:: Help!


Michelle,
 
I am with Karen.  NO REFUNDS.  People are famous for this one.  
 
R


On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 1:04 AM, <[email protected]> wrote:

The gel polish from QVC really works according to a client of mine. She 
recently stopped doing acrylics. But that small bottle of treatment cost 
$30!!!!!!!!!!! 
Sent on the Sprint® Now Network from my BlackBerry®


From: Michelle Phoenix <[email protected]> 
Sender: [email protected] 

Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2010 19:16:10 -0500

To: [email protected]<[email protected]>
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Subject: Re: NailTech:: Help!





Becky this is really good!

Michelle Phoenix - Elite Nail Technician 
Wet Paint Nail Spa
www.wetpaintnailspa.com


On Nov 13, 2010, at 7:11 PM, Becky <[email protected]> wrote:




"Good afternoon (client name), I just wanted to give you a call because I have 
gotten to thinking. I don't feel that I am able to provide the level of service 
that you require any longer. I like to believe that I know my limits and I am 
unable to continue at the level you require. You are quite particular and I 
respect that, so I am going to let you find a new salon in which to have your 
nails done. Have a beautiful day, and it was nice to have met you! "
On Nov 13, 2010 5:38 PM, "Lynnette Madden" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hey everyone.... I am in a mood and not sure what I should do.
> I will be brief :
> Newer sog client. About four times. EVERY SINGLE FREAKING TIME she got them
> done I got a phone call a day or so later.
> * first time.. Lynnette, my ni chip got a chip. Called back later that
> day,hubby tells me it happened as she took out her dentures. She never
> fessed up to it.
> *as I was curing her at another appointment, she put her one finger on
> another while curing the top coat. I buffed that area, small mind you, to a
> high shine because I did not have time to redo it.
> She called the next day to say it was not shiny in the one spot. I told her
> what she did, but come back for me to redo. She did the SAME DAMN THING, but
> this time her finger stuck....cured...to each other.
> Third time she calls to say she has bubbles on one thumb. When she came, I
> swear you needed a MICROSCOPE to see two little things.
> Comes in this week and says she cannot afford to keep this up. Brings in
> some $#!t from QVC and wants my opinion on it. (some pink "gel"polish)
> I did two coats of gelish base and we polished.
> Yesterday she called to say the polish came off on a corner of one nail.
> I have not called her back.
> 
> Buenos dias!
> Lynnette Diaz-Madden
> 
> www.facebook.com/nailtech
> www.salon29.net
> 
> Salon 29-where pampering and
> personal attention is on its way!
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