Rendezvous Tattoo Parlor hangs alleged 'photo-shopped' Best of Blacksburg certificate.
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Every year, the Collegiate Times unveils its Best of Blacksburg list.
The list, covering food establishments, stores and other services serve as tools for students and members of the community in making decisions for business.
One of the categories in the Best of Blacksburg list is Best Tattoo Parlor, which Ancient Art won in 2007. However, customers entering into rival parlor Rendezvous could be easily mislead, as the parlor, which came in third for 2007, hangs two fake first place "Best of Blacksburg 2007" signs.
"We don't have a dispute, but we just want to let everyone know who the best store is," said Vicki Rose, a piercer at Ancient Art. The signs at Rendezvous were first noticed in May.
"Our regulars were telling us Rendezvous had a sign up that looked ghetto," Rose said. "We've been trying to handle this respectfully."
Workers at Rendezvous were hesitant on talking about the certificates.
"(We got the certificate) whenever they sent it in the mail," said Patti Rowan, manager of Rendezvous.
Though this would appear to explain for the false sign, the odds of this explanation being true are not good.
"It would never happen," said Xavier Herrera, advertising director for College Media Solutions and Business Manager of the Collegiate Times when the Best of Blacksburg were unveiled for 2007. "We only print out a single certificate for each winner, and from what we can tell, the certificate was photo-shopped.
The fake certificates inside of Rendezvous can appear to look legitimate. The main difference between the fake and the real sign is the font used for the writing of "First Place." While the real certificate at Ancient Art has "First Place" written in blue italicized font, the fake sign found at Rendezvous has "First Place" written in straight black font. The two fake signs are hung at the door and by a couch by the parlor's portfolio.
Rendezvous' dishonesty has shocked Ancient Art, who has had a strong record on the Best of Blacksburg, with many first place prizes in recent years.
"We've been the best tattoo place in Blacksburg since we opened up 10 years ago. We just want to let everyone know who rightfully holds the title," Rose said.
Voting for the 2008 Best of Blacksburg is already underway, with voting coming to a close Sept. 21.
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I think Rondezvous diserves the award more than Ancient Art anyway. All the experience that I've ever had with Ancient Art was negative, one of the tattoo artists even bragged that he had over charged me for my tattoo and that he had done a horrible job to one of his former co-workers (not knowing that he was one of my friends).
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All of the guys from 2007 are gone and the new guys are great.
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Where might one vote for these Best of Blacksburg?
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If I could have voted it would have been for Rendezvous definitely, who gets to vote? People that work for the paper?
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I myself absolutely love Ancient Art. I've had two of my tats done there, and when one needed a touch up the guy who did it the first time did it for free - even though it was my fault it had faded! I refer all my friends to ancient art, i've never heard of a bad experience at AA myself. Go to Richie - he's the best.
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I definitely think that ancient art deserves to win the award each year. I don't know who you went to ms. Holly but the gentleman who did my husband's tattoo was great. I have no complaints about the parlor. It's a great place and I believe they deserve it. How do we vote for the best tattoo parlor?
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Maybe thoughs of you that adore Ancient Art should realize that you are getting your work done by unlicensed artist and piercers as of June 2008.
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Before i got my first tattoo I researched everything real good(or so I thought). So I belived the hype at Ancient Art about "being the only tattoo studio in Virginia that is state health department approved" Later on I found out that the state health department doesn't even inspect tattoo parlors in Virginia. Too late for me, I got a staph infection in my tattoo at Ancient Art in Blacksburg. It ruined the tattoo and cost me a lot of money at the emergency room. I eventually got another tattoo, this time at Rendezvous Tattoo. It was given to me by a registered nurse who owns the place. No problem with the second tattoo. I learned the hard way.
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I don't no how well this works for Ancient Art Tattoos, but got some Greek letters from Teddy Springs at the Tattoo show in S.C.& he jacked them all up different sizes,two letters are upside down, now what am I supposed to do with this mess,not a very good way to put your business out there, its your name Teddy Springs & trust me I will get it fixed, covered whatever, I know you got your money & that's all you seem to be worried about!
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