Hair Salon Extortion
Your Hair Stylist Could be Next
Lawyer jokes are pretty much well deserved. I have never been a big fan of lawyers, but this story had my blood boiling.
There has been a controversy about gender price discrimination in the hair salon industry for years, about whether a hair salon should charge women the same price for a haircut as they do for their male counter parts. Which quite frankly is ridiculous. I’m a firm believer that hair salons should have a much wider variance in pricing their services than they already do. For me the critical key is good communication about pricing policy, so if the customer feels they are being overcharged for whatever reason they can vote with their feet.
“this slimy abulance chaser threatened to sue”
Back in the 90’s there were a few attempts to sue hair salons, dry cleaners, airlines etc., etc based upon price discrimination. The cause almost always lost, but was expensive for an individual small business owner to defend. We’re talking bankruptcy in some instances. Judges began to take a dim view of attorneys who continued to bring suit despite lack of a precedent and were dismissing them as frivolous.
That is, until this slimy ambulance chaser from Manchester New Hampshire started threatening to sue a local hair salon for gender price discrimination. This guy had tried this before and had visions of a small Ma and Pa hair salon being frightened out of their wits about being served a subpoena and needing to fork over a thousand dollars for a quiet, out of court settlement. But alas my hero, Claudia Lambert, owns Claudia’s Signature Salon, contacted the New Hampshire Attorney General’s office. The creep has been charged with extortion and is now out on $5,000 bail.
You Go Girl! I just love this story.
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Lawyer pleads innocent to salon extortion attempt MANCHESTER – A Manchester lawyer pleaded innocent yesterday to a theft by extortion charge for allegedly demanding payment from a Concord hair salon to settle a threatened lawsuit. Daniel P. Hynes, 26, of 71D Wellington Terrace Drive, was arraigned in Manchester District Court on a misdemeanor charge. |
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