The standard rate at Black barbershops is now $35-$40

Man that shit is annoying.
I've seen barbers just chilling, clicking around on the phone or sleeping for 30 min waiting on an appointment.
So instead of knocking out a head or two while waiting, they'd just rather say "nope" with a waiting area full of people.


Bruh when I lived out of town it was even worst. Shops closing at 5pm and niggas smelling like weed. I used to be so frustrated. I'm like shift workers get off at 5pm from the refinery and yawl closed already. My last straw one time was when I got ready to get cut the barber was like I need to go pick my brother up is that cool? I found a dude who cut for 10 and was family environment. The cut wasn't as good but that joint was 10 bucks.
 
high end barbers that be making house visits to the

the rich kniggas..

been charging thirty to fifty a cut when they aint making

house calls...
 
Any organization like Black Churches/NAACP/The Nation of Islam should setup in the Hub of Black American places like NYC, Philadelphia, DC, Atl, Mia, Houston, LA, Detroit, and Chicago for starters a chain of upscale black owned barbershop/Super Market.
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That sounds like a good idea!! I dont get it, it seems like at times we are being held back from running in this money race. As if everyone has lite track shoes and we have to run with lead filled combat boots and wearing at 400lbs lead vest!! Maybe there afraid we will take it over and do it 100 times better(like we do with everything we get into) and that scares the shit outta them!! I just cant figure it out, bruh.. Thats a good point you brought up!!
 
Man that shit is annoying.
I've seen barbers just chilling, clicking around on the phone or sleeping for 30 min waiting on an appointment.
So instead of knocking out a head or two while waiting, they'd just rather say "nope" with a waiting area full of people.

Damn, that doesnt sound like a good business model that shop is running..


Bruh when I lived out of town it was even worst. Shops closing at 5pm and niggas smelling like weed. I used to be so frustrated. I'm like shift workers get off at 5pm from the refinery and yawl closed already. My last straw one time was when I got ready to get cut the barber was like I need to go pick my brother up is that cool? I found a dude who cut for 10 and was family environment. The cut wasn't as good but that joint was 10 bucks.

Thats pure madness.. A shop closing a 5pm, the majority of people dont get off till 430pm.. That shop closing a 5, is losing out on a ton of cash.. Atleast, thats how I see it..
 
I don't like them by appt ass niggas. Don't wanna take walk ins and shits. Them boys don't realize a lot of cats don't want to live by a schedule when they off work. I'm sorry but on my off day I aint sticking to no schedule for a cut. They are a service and need to be available.

I feel ya, I can call my barber on Friday to see what openings he have and be in his chair at 10 am on saturday.
 
My barber uses it, pretty cool app it shows their available time once you book an appointment it goes to requested the barber will confirm the appointment within minutes you can also pay through the app if they turn on mobile pay option

The only reason I mention it because I was introduced to the person who created that app. Very creative young brother.
 
15 bucks uptown Bronx. U guys are getting hosed

So the part around the 0:58 second mark always made me laugh when money was funny I knew how that felt. This video was from 12 years ago... He did shoot most of the video in Brooklyn... and that was the price then in some spots but not NOW AT ALL....


 
high end barbers that be making house visits to the

the rich kniggas..

been charging thirty to fifty a cut when they aint making

house calls...

I’m in between shops right now so I’ve only been doin house calls.

It ain’t always what it seems . Yes your charging more per service but your doin less services. In a shop I’m doin 2 heads a hour at 25 each , where as house calls are 50-60 and I’m only doin 1 per hour because i need travel time. But on my off days a house call is 100, and that simply because I’m not finna alter my whole day for one head
 
See this what's wrong with the black community we don't support each other.

We go give our money to Lin Yung Fuk and 'em instead to cut our hair or up the street to the Puerto Rican barbershop or the white girl at super cuts.

But won't give our local barber who we been going to for years $30 for a cut.

Man that's what's wrong with our community.

If my barber is black and he say you gotta pay $100 for a cut you should pay cuz that means you support black business if you don't your against the black community.

Because $30 for a haircut is TOO fuckin much
 
$7 special on Tuesdays and Wednesday’s around my way!

Who the hell is cutting your hair

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Bruh when I lived out of town it was even worst. Shops closing at 5pm and niggas smelling like weed. I used to be so frustrated. I'm like shift workers get off at 5pm from the refinery and yawl closed already. My last straw one time was when I got ready to get cut the barber was like I need to go pick my brother up is that cool? I found a dude who cut for 10 and was family environment. The cut wasn't as good but that joint was 10 bucks.
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Yeah man, hood barbers are very unprofessional.
I remember about a month ago I had an event to be at by 10 am one Saturday.
But I needed a cut badly.
I text my barber the night before and he told be to be there at 8 sharp the next morning.
I pull up at 8 sharp, he's not there.
He finally drags in at 8:45 with a big ass breakfast plate in hand.
This nigga says: "Say bro I'm hongry, I'm eating my breakfast first. Gimmie 20 minutes"
With ZERO regard for my tight schedule.
It took all of my strength not to just say fuck it and leave.
But my head was looking rough.
Didn't get out the chair until 9:35, and was late to my destination because of it.
 
Now that I’m sporting a beard god dam prices have gone up smh. I know shop rent has gone up but god dam. Same regular clippers and spray after a cut. No service has gone up. Another thing that Black barbers lack is taking a credit card. Them cash days are fucking over. I stopped fucking with my barber because his card thing was broke smh.
 
The only reason I mention it because I was introduced to the person who created that app. Very creative young brother.
i cut my own hair now. .. but one of the reasons i stopped going was because of this right here... i hate appointment barbershops... part of the experience is going.. waiting your turn and chopping it up with people you barely know....

if that's gone wtf fuck im going there for
 
I don't like them by appt ass niggas. Don't wanna take walk ins and shits. Them boys don't realize a lot of cats don't want to live by a schedule when they off work. I'm sorry but on my off day I aint sticking to no schedule for a cut. They are a service and need to be available.


No they don't
Do yall know why barbers started going to appointment in the first place?

Cause the shop will close at 6pm and cats will come in at 5:59 and wait to get a cut so then a cat that been there since 9am won't get out until 10pm especially on the weekends

But that's ok too because shit why does his time natter when you need a cut?


Also when is his lunch break or 15 minute break?

Cause the shop is gonna stay packed on Thursday Friday and Saturday

And he better not dare go out for 10 minutes every cat in there will be like tf he doing????


Oh he's in the back trying to scarf down something to eat in 5 minutes and get back to work

Damn cant he eat on his own time?

Oh you mean when the shop is closed or after all the heads are done at 10pm?


Oh and also how about the cats who feel they have a "special relationship" with the barber he's their boy they can just call ahead of pull a number then come back when they feel and they're next


It is a service and they're available by appointment so if you want the service call ahead and make the appointment


Most barbers have days they accept walk INS and those are the not busy days

On the weekend it makes no sense to accept walk INS
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Man that shit is annoying.
I've seen barbers just chilling, clicking around on the phone or sleeping for 30 min waiting on an appointment.
So instead of knocking out a head or two while waiting, they'd just rather say "nope" with a waiting area full of people.


They can't get a break?

You don't think they scheduled it that way so they could actually get a break?

Put it like this what if your boss was upset you took a break or had a 30 minute lunch during the course of a work day when there's work that still needs to be done?

If someone was like damn you took a 15 or a lunch and didn't just knock out this work that needs to be done?


You'd be like wtf??
I been working all day I need a lunch kinda Job is this?
 
No they don't
Do yall know why barbers started going to appointment in the first place?

Cause the shop will close at 6pm and cats will come in at 5:59 and wait to get a cut so then a cat that been there since 9am won't get out until 10pm especially on the weekends

But that's ok too because shit why does his time natter when you need a cut?


Also when is his lunch break or 15 minute break?

Cause the shop is gonna stay packed on Thursday Friday and Saturday

And he better not dare go out for 10 minutes every cat in there will be like tf he doing????


Oh he's in the back trying to scarf down something to eat in 5 minutes and get back to work

Damn cant he eat on his own time?

Oh you mean when the shop is closed or after all the heads are done at 10pm?


Oh and also how about the cats who feel they have a "special relationship" with the barber he's their boy they can just call ahead of pull a number then come back when they feel and they're next


It is a service and they're available by appointment so if you want the service call ahead and make the appointment


Most barbers have days they accept walk INS and those are the not busy days

On the weekend it makes no sense to accept walk INS
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You sir. are appreciated it

When i went walk-in only i would be in the shop 10-12 hours 5 days a week. Once my kids got bigger and i had to be more hands on. Fuck that, appt only. Start at 9/10 lunch at 1/2 close at 7/8 and even with appt it still doesn’t guarantee gettin out the shop on time and in a decent hour cause it’s easy to get backed up
 
A barbershop is a good way to network with other people, much the same way that country clubs are for whites. I am at a spot now and hearing about other opportunities from just talking to other people. The $30 might be worth it if you factor in your access to information.

Barbers are well connected people in the community.
 
No they don't
Do yall know why barbers started going to appointment in the first place?

Cause the shop will close at 6pm and cats will come in at 5:59 and wait to get a cut so then a cat that been there since 9am won't get out until 10pm especially on the weekends

But that's ok too because shit why does his time natter when you need a cut?


Also when is his lunch break or 15 minute break?

Cause the shop is gonna stay packed on Thursday Friday and Saturday

And he better not dare go out for 10 minutes every cat in there will be like tf he doing????


Oh he's in the back trying to scarf down something to eat in 5 minutes and get back to work

Damn cant he eat on his own time?

Oh you mean when the shop is closed or after all the heads are done at 10pm?


Oh and also how about the cats who feel they have a "special relationship" with the barber he's their boy they can just call ahead of pull a number then come back when they feel and they're next


It is a service and they're available by appointment so if you want the service call ahead and make the appointment


Most barbers have days they accept walk INS and those are the not busy days

On the weekend it makes no sense to accept walk INS
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Back in the day my Dad owned a barbershop. Nigga ain't have no fucking app and he made way more than these new age niggas. If he closed the shop at 9pm and a nigga came at 8:50 guess what he was cutting that hair. My moms used to be mad as fuck at my dad but he was about getting that paper. Nigga had his shop open 7 days a week getting it.
 
They can't get a break?

You don't think they scheduled it that way so they could actually get a break?

Put it like this what if your boss was upset you took a break or had a 30 minute lunch during the course of a work day when there's work that still needs to be done?

If someone was like damn you took a 15 or a lunch and didn't just knock out this work that needs to be done?


You'd be like wtf??
I been working all day I need a lunch kinda Job is this?
Man, barbers are not busy during the day while most people are at work and school.
They might go 2-3 hours in between heads during the week.
Especially Monday-Wednesday.
But when its a full house and people are waiting, they're just leaving money on the table.
That's not a hustlers mentality.
 
Man, barbers are not busy during the day while most people are at work and school.
They might go 2-3 hours in between heads during the week.
Especially Monday-Wednesday.
But when its a full house and people are waiting, they're just leaving money on the table.
That's not a hustlers mentality.

How do you know?
Lol
Imagine someone telling you when you're busy and when you're not at your job

And you totally ignored things like a break and lunch and the fact that there became a need for appointments

I saw my barber go thru it he had that "hustlers mentality" and ran himself ragged because he wouldn't have any time to take a break or eat
So from 9am till about 10pm he's cutting heads

Anyone do a Job for 13 hours and no breaks no matter what the job is and see how that feels


So he went to appointments because it makes everything clear.

People need to respect their time and either make an appointment or go in on walk in days
 
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