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The siren call of a small business engaging in questionable business practices is too tempting for TikTok to ignore. This month, it’s a tattoo artist a client believes scammed her out of more than $2,000. A three-part video by @cmonteith posted on May 9 details her experience of commissioning a fox tattoo, for which she was required to pay thousands in deposits and consultancy fees before seeing a sketch. Once the sketch materialized, it was hastily drawn and in no way matched the reference photos the client had shared. That wasn’t the artist’s back shell skin happily fixing it for another couple thousand dollars!
Unsurprisingly, @cmonteith declined the offer, and when it became apparent the artist had no intention of repaying her money, she took her grievances to TikTok. The enormity of the price, and the tone of the emails shared between @cmonteith and the artist, have made people freak out in the comments and have even driven other unhappy patrons of this same artist out of the woodshop. Ri McCue, one of those unhappy customers, called the establishment Lucid Tattoos in Cambridge, Ontario, and claimed that the artist had shared a photo of his ID in an attempt to get it banned from the other studios, because if c ‘it’s a way to disabuse people of the idea that you have predatory business practices, it’s even more predatory online.
Why it’s a 4: The scathing response to the videos eventually spilled over to TikTok and, according to @cmonteith, reviews of the store itself. She later returned to TikTok to ask investigators to refrain from commenting on the name in comments and leaving negative reviews on Google. She’s swept the tattoo community widely enough that artist Matt Vaught is taking her out to get a free tattoo and end the saga on a positive note.
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