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OAP/65+ Men's Haircut
Peter Marsh · 20 min
£14.50
has appointments free
Tuesday 1 September
35 times free
Afternoon
You are looking at a live demo
Demo Barber is not a real shop. The barbers, the customers and every booking in the diary are invented. Everything else is the real thing: the same code a paying barbershop runs, on its own web address, sending its own email.
How to try it
- Book the way a customer would. Pick a service, then a barber, then a time. Every step is a real page at a real address - watch the bar at the top of the browser change as you go, and try the back button.
- Use your own email at the last step. The confirmation that lands in your inbox is the one a real customer gets, with a real add-to-calendar file attached to it.
- Book as much as you like. The whole diary is wiped and rebuilt every night, so nothing you do here inconveniences anybody.
- Nobody will answer the telephone. The number in the header is one reserved for television and film, so it can never ring a real person. The address is Buckingham Palace for the same reason.
What to look for
- The price and the length change with the barber. The directors charge more and take longer than the newest barber, and the diary knows it. Pick a different barber and watch the times move.
- Anyone, first available. For the customer who does not mind who cuts their hair. It offers every slot any barber can do, and picks one for them.
- Only free time is offered. Availability is worked out from the shop's hours, each barber's own hours, what is already in their book and how long the service actually takes.
- The whole look came from two colours. This shop's skin was derived rather than hand-built, which is the reason a website is included in the price rather than a line on the invoice.
- It works with JavaScript switched off. One-handed, on a phone, on a bad connection. Nothing on this site waits for a script before it will show you a list of times.
- No commission, and no marketplace. The customer is the shop's own, the booking is the shop's own, and nobody is advertising the barber down the road underneath it.