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Hi there, this is my first post.
I work at rock-festivals selling jewelry, fashion accessories and piercings, i also do piercings at those festivals(it's mor hygenic than you think
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Over our counter is a row of steel bracelets and necklaces(with a big, big sign), and i have the following conversation(or at least parts of it) at least once a day:
SC: "Is this silver?"
Me: "No, it's stainless steel."
SC: "So it blackens?"
Me: "No, it doesn't. Silver goes black when exposed to sweat or sunlight."
SC: "okay... do you sell silver necklaces?"
Me: "No, everything we have is steel or titanium. a few articles are gold."
SC: "Is this silver?" *point*
Me: "No... it's steel."
SC: "No, i don't want that because it goes black."
another thing i love is with people complaining that they got an allergy from our stuff. We don't sell stuff that contains nickel(because a lot of people have an allergy against that) but you can have an allergy against gold, titanium or steel. It's rare, but happens. But it's not my fault. And you can't be allergic to PTFE
A lot of times people ask if they can try on the piercings, which is a big no-go. If they insist, i sometimes tell them that i have this demo-jewelry they can try, but about 30 people had them on before. For some reason they don't like to try that, but can't understand why i don't let them try on the merchandise. For the very same reason we don't take returns on bodypiercings. We don't have to, jewelry and underwear can't be returned. If we sold the wrong size by accident(because we can't really measure sizes, it's mostly guesstimation) we will give you a larger/smaller size, but we don't return money(okay, a lot of times we do because we are nice, but only if the customer is polite)
Note: You can hold the stuff up to whichever bodypart it goes through, i have no problem assisting with some forceps and a mirror, but you can't put it in.
You know what you shouldn't do after you got a piece of metal punched through your body? play with it. My studio is sterile, my needles are sterile single-packs, my jewelry is sterile and the customer has asked a hundred times if everything is sterile. And 2 seconds after i have finished explaining what the SC should and shouldn't do with his new piercing(like touching it with unwashed hands) he touches it.
Sometimes i feel like crying.
I work at rock-festivals selling jewelry, fashion accessories and piercings, i also do piercings at those festivals(it's mor hygenic than you think
)Over our counter is a row of steel bracelets and necklaces(with a big, big sign), and i have the following conversation(or at least parts of it) at least once a day:
SC: "Is this silver?"
Me: "No, it's stainless steel."
SC: "So it blackens?"
Me: "No, it doesn't. Silver goes black when exposed to sweat or sunlight."
SC: "okay... do you sell silver necklaces?"
Me: "No, everything we have is steel or titanium. a few articles are gold."
SC: "Is this silver?" *point*
Me: "No... it's steel."
SC: "No, i don't want that because it goes black."
another thing i love is with people complaining that they got an allergy from our stuff. We don't sell stuff that contains nickel(because a lot of people have an allergy against that) but you can have an allergy against gold, titanium or steel. It's rare, but happens. But it's not my fault. And you can't be allergic to PTFE
A lot of times people ask if they can try on the piercings, which is a big no-go. If they insist, i sometimes tell them that i have this demo-jewelry they can try, but about 30 people had them on before. For some reason they don't like to try that, but can't understand why i don't let them try on the merchandise. For the very same reason we don't take returns on bodypiercings. We don't have to, jewelry and underwear can't be returned. If we sold the wrong size by accident(because we can't really measure sizes, it's mostly guesstimation) we will give you a larger/smaller size, but we don't return money(okay, a lot of times we do because we are nice, but only if the customer is polite)
Note: You can hold the stuff up to whichever bodypart it goes through, i have no problem assisting with some forceps and a mirror, but you can't put it in.
You know what you shouldn't do after you got a piece of metal punched through your body? play with it. My studio is sterile, my needles are sterile single-packs, my jewelry is sterile and the customer has asked a hundred times if everything is sterile. And 2 seconds after i have finished explaining what the SC should and shouldn't do with his new piercing(like touching it with unwashed hands) he touches it.
Sometimes i feel like crying.
rb
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