Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Salon Charges Customer Extra Five Dollars Because She's Fat

A nail salon in Georgia, charged Michelle Fonville, 40, an additional FIVE dollars because she is overweight. The salon, NATURAL NAILS in Lithonia GA ( I had to put there name out there) charged her an extra 5 dollars because there chair according to the manufacturer has a 200lb weight limit and cost 2500$ to repair. My thoughts... Sad but true this is probably not the first or the last time this will happen at that nail salon. The charge of five dollars in my opinion is ridiculous because if you had any doubt that I was going to break your chair why would you charge me 5 dollars why not just tell me to leave or better yet charge me the 2500$ it cost to replace the chair if I broke it, don't try to insult my intelligence by charging me a five dollar fine for being overweight. I think the owners of this salon thought that were going to get away with it, Michelle asked for a receipt then questioned the mysterious charge and that's how she found out. I would have cussed them out for saying I was too big but then willing to take my money. Money has no size. Natural Nails told Michelle that she was not allowed to come back because she was too big; there are plenty of other nail salons Michelle that would be glad to take your money no matter what size or shape. Michelle said she was going to protest the store, now I personally would not go that far, just tell family and friends what happened and people will listen, hey it got to ABC news so someone thought it was worth noting. Honestly this is a real sticky situation because if I was the owner of the nail salon and I thought that someone was going to break my chair I would have explained to Michelle that we could not give her a pedicure for the risk of damaging our chairs but we can use one of our less expensive chairs to do her feet. If Michelle popped off and got upset than so be it, but at least I explained from the beginning and I didn't charge a mysterious FIVE DOLLAR FEE.

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