Legal Rights with Tattoos in Canberra?

molongloid Translation please. Just for the simple folk.

Jo, I would ask someone with lots of tatts. There are a few here. You might be lucky.

Hi, i too went and got my first tattoo and the women who done it also done mine wonky and looks like i could of done it myself, i also got a bit of attitude and was told that the area i got mine done does not always turn out the way it’s suppose to and she said that she told me that before hand which she did not, and didn’t really care and kinda brushed me off, may be the same place you went to! Anyway i am not aware about the laws when it comes to tattoo’s but i should look into it. I have left it too long as i was scared to go back to her and risk her stuffing it up even more. I will have to go somewhere else and pay the money for it to be fixed, but i will never go back to her or that establishment.
Jo

This just confirms my view that tatts just make it easy for the rest of us to identify the brain dead in society….

And which tattoo parlour have you walked past recently Bam_Bam?

John Moulis said :

Tattoos? Ya pay ya money and take your chances. I had no complaints about mine when I had them done at The Illustrated Man, Sydney in the 1980s.

Ah, Tony Cohen has made a dollar or two out of me as well 🙂

Hmm, I thought all the local shops were rebel omcg 1% franchises. So I’m sure they would have excellent customer sastifaction policies.

Tattoos? Ya pay ya money and take your chances. I had no complaints about mine when I had them done at The Illustrated Man, Sydney in the 1980s.

eh_steve said :

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The Trade Practices Act has been slightly amended and renamed the Competition and Consumer Act 2010, so it might be worth scanning the contents and seeing if anything stands out.

The other recent development is that Consumer Guarantees have just come into effect, check out the consumer guarantees section of the accc website – http://www.accc.gov.au/content/index.phtml/itemId/3863 – for some useful info.

It’s definitely on the ACCC’s turf, if it is indeed wonky or otherwise defective.

As I understand it, the ‘old’ TPA remains as a schedule to the ‘new’ CCA. But, you’re right about the consumer guarantee provisions. I think you’ll find, though, that the ‘enforcement’ of the CCA in that respect, in the ACT, is the responsibility of the ACT Office of Regulatory Services (rather than the ACCC).

suck it up and go to another tattooist to get it fixed – it won’t cost too much and it is really not worth the fight.

Most tattoo artists would be horrified that you weren’t happy with what you got. I’m not sure about the ACCC route, but sounds like your best bet would be to go to another tattoo artist and get them to fix it. When I got mine done, I was told if anything went bad then they would fix it free of charge, even if it was a result of me scratching it.

Sounds like you picked the wrong place to go to.