Aloha Monkey Tattoo

This is not going to be a slam review, however, more of a heads-up to how these guys handle themselves with customers who receive a Gift Certificate. I received said GC for Xmas...
A couple years ago, I was lucky enough (or so I thought) to open a Special envelope with a $100 GC in it to Aloha Monkey, a Local Tattoo Shoppe. I was giddy with anticipation and already knew how I wanted to use the money... to touch up a previous and favorite tattoo that had a few spots of missing color that I wanted filled back in. I would have been an easy hundred bucks to them, but I guess they wanted to make more work for themselves.
So, I made the appointment and arrived at the shop to be ignored for several minutes when I arrived with my companion, so I started looking at flash. When I was acknowledged, they treated me as though I was an annoyance and not worth any effort. I felt put-off, for lack of a better word. When I informed the guy that I had an appointment and a Gift Certificate, his face dropped from happy to uninterested, as though he had just been told that he won the lottery,........ for losers.
Needless to say, as we got into the consult, he talked me OUT of having my tattoo touched up, which, frankly, would have been nothing but profit for them, since they didn't even perform the tattoo in question, but then decided to add onto a tattoo I had behind my ear which I didn't really want to have touched up. (Bear in mind, this was a special tattoo that every one of my cousins and I have, to commemorate our Irish Heritage and I didn't want anything else done to it, but the Artist continued to insist he couldn't do anything else. So I gave in.)
I just wanted my damned tattoo at this point.

So, I got the tattoo, at the artist's insistance and added flames and colour to my tiny shamrock tattoo behind my ear and he did a pretty good job, however, I didn't feel the work was worth $100, I have had tattoos done for much less that are much better than this one.
Anyways, needless to say, the lines on it are very blurry, meaning, he went too deep and held his wrist at the wrong angle, causing the ink to bleed under the skin.
I honestly think this guy was a new artist, maybe even an apprentice, because he had another artist breathing down his neck the whole time.
I feel like I deserved a seasoned artist and only because I had a gift certificate did I get passed off onto the newbie tattooist.
I was disappointed with my experience but aside from the blurry lines, my tattoo turned out alright, I suppose. I had definitely seen better, but I have to like it because it's permanently placed on my body.
Someday, maybe I will get a tattoo that doesn't have tons of mistakes.
Also, Perhaps in the future, Aloha Monkey's staff will get some customer service skills.
A reminder to all Tattoo Artists, just because I came in with a Gift Certificate ($100, btw. PAID in CASH by my boyfriend), but I also had $50 in my wallet, which I would have generously tipped him, IF he had gone above and beyond, but now that guy will never get my business back and I will forever be "scarred" by my experience, literally and figuratively.

Fair Warning. I think these guys might really be untrained, poo-flinging Monkeys.