Hair Loss News

Picture the scene.  You’re a client of a well known Hair Club, you signed a contract for services to have your hair system cleaned, repaired and styled on a regular basis.  

One day your stylist tells you she can offer you a better deal and save you money at a new salon that she will soon be working at.   You naturally jump at the chance to save some money and start visiting her at the new salon.

Fast forward to a few months later and you are now under surveillance by detectives hired by the Hair Club you had a contract with.

If this scenario sounds bizarre and implausible it’s actually based on a true story.

According to the Smoking Gun website, “The Hair Club for Men recently hired a private detective to videotape ex-clients as they entered a rival follicle replacement business staffed by two of its former workers.”

According to a breach of contract lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Sacramento, Hair Club for Men alleges that two of their stylists violated the terms of non-compete agreements they had signed upon being hired by the company.

To support its claim against the stylists, Hair Club hired Frasco Investigative Services to stake out the offices of Elite Solutions Hair Alternatives, their business rival who is now employing their former stylists.

Private detective Michael Selby videotaped four of the former Hair Club clients entering Elite and also shot footage of their former stylists at the competitor’s premises. The surveillance images of the four men visiting the salon were included in the recent court filing by Hair Club.

Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction.

To read more and see the actual court documents visit the Smoking Gun website: http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2007/0402071hairclub1.html