Salons in the heartlands ignored refusals, pushed upgrades and used age-based pressure, CNA’s Talking Point found as it also met a customer who lost nearly S$50,000 buying prepaid packages from a business that ended up closing.
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Salons in the heartlands ignored refusals, pushed upgrades and used age-based pressure, CNA’s Talking Point found as it also met a customer who lost nearly S$50,000 buying prepaid packages from a business that ended up closing.
Talking Point host Diana Ser also went undercover as an older woman to investigate beauty salons’ pressure tactics.
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