How do you choose a barber's?

I have an undercut, and - *** ***** ****.

Last time I went, they had an underground op due to CoViD-19. The windows were papered over so you couldn't see in. There was another dud in there getting his hair cut too.

But anyway, like I was saying... jacked up my undercut. The barber blended the crap out of my hair so that it wasn't an undercut anymore. Now it looked ok, but it wouldn't comb the same!

Oh my heck... I talked to his manager about it. I showed pics of the cut and explained why I was dissatisfied. And she will cut my hair today at 4 - no charge.

 

Flowbee

 

where i live in the u.s., they've all become "stylists" and charge four times what a barber would have. if you can even find one of them.
probably the best answer i can think of would be a friend who would be willing for reasonable, and of course the clipper for them to use to do so.

that's why when suggested they would be less expensive then over priced razors, i was like "say what?" and can only guess some things must be very different in some other countries.