Episode 17: Are Hair Clinics Ethical? What You Should Look For | Joe Tillman

What I find interesting is that you had a hair transplant at an age that I don't think is necessarily appropriate to have a hair transplant.

And I'm sure, unfortunately, you had that hair transplant because there was not enough information out there for you to do your initial research.

Right.

I had brochures in a phone book.

That was it.

You know, and the whole reason why I was even in the clinic in the first place is because my best friend from high school, he and I were the only people that would talk to each other about about our hair.

He said, go with me for this consultation.

It wasn't even my idea.

I was like, OK, sure.

And I'm sitting there in the office with my best friend next to me and the doctor in front of me.

And he's talking to my friend and he looks at me and he says, and we can help you, too.

I'm like, help me with what? He goes, well, you're losing your hairline.

I am like, kind of, I know this, but really? He goes, yeah.

And he basically talked me into surgery, like put that, or he accentuated my self-doubt about my hair by reinforcing it with his own comments.

And that's what got me in the chair, really.

You know, when I think about it, it was all the classic, you know, get him in the chair type of comments that were made.

as I learn about sales and I learn about this stuff later on as I get older, I was ripe for the picking.

I was so ripe for the picking.

And I see guys like this all the time.

And I see myself when these guys are asking these questions and they think they know what they want.

They think they know what they need.

And they've been researching it for three days.

And yeah, so it's interesting still to see that history repeats itself.

It's brand new all over again.

You know, some of the techniques or the procedures or the way that they're presented online, you know, I've seen it three or four times already in different stages over the past 20 some odd years.

What I find interesting is that you had a hair transplant at an age that I don't think is necessarily appropriate to have a hair transplant.

And I'm sure, unfortunately, you had that hair transplant because there was not enough information out there for you to do your initial research.

Right.

I had brochures in a phone book.

That was it.

You know, and the whole reason why I was even in the clinic in the first place is because my best friend from high school, he and I were the only people that would talk to each other about about our hair.

He said, go with me for this consultation.

It wasn't even my idea.

I was like, OK, sure.

And I'm sitting there in the office with my best friend next to me and the doctor in front of me.

And he's talking to my friend and he looks at me and he says, and we can help you, too.

I'm like, help me with what? He goes, well, you're losing your hairline.

I am like, kind of, I know this, but really? He goes, yeah.

And he basically talked me into surgery, like put that, or he accentuated my self-doubt about my hair by reinforcing it with his own comments.

And that's what got me in the chair, really.

You know, when I think about it, it was all the classic, you know, get him in the chair type of comments that were made.

as I learn about sales and I learn about this stuff later on as I get older, I was ripe for the picking.

I was so ripe for the picking.

And I see guys like this all the time.

And I see myself when these guys are asking these questions and they think they know what they want.

They think they know what they need.

And they've been researching it for three days.

And yeah, so it's interesting still to see that history repeats itself.

It's brand new all over again.

You know, some of the techniques or the procedures or the way that they're presented online, you know, I've seen it three or four times already in different stages over the past 20 some odd years.