502 W Main St, Troy OH 45373, cash only, (937) 869-5291

Seven hundred and eighty three five star reviews, and a booking app owns every one of them.

Troy Barber Shop is on West Main Street in Troy. Jarad, Ty and Brandon cut, an adult cut is $25, and the shop describes itself as a clean friendly old school barbershop, cash only. The rating is 5.0 across 783 reviews. Every one of those reviews lives on a booking platform that owns the page, the customer list and the search result, and the shop has no address of its own on the internet. Ring (937) 869-5291 or book online.

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On the board

Ten prices published, and every number on this page is the shop's own.

These prices come straight off the shop's live booking page, not estimated and not rounded. The full list is buzz cut or burr $15, senior 65 and older $18, beard trim with straight razor $20, adult cut $25, kids cut $25, senior cut and beard trim $25, haircut and beard service $35, head shave and hot towel $40, complete grooming $50, and the VIP package at $100. Six of them are on the cards below and the rest are in the form. Cash is what the shop says it takes, so bring some. Call (937) 869-5291 if something you want is not on the list.

Adult Cut, $25

The standard cut, thirty minutes, and it is the same twenty five dollars whichever chair you land in. A kids cut is also $25, and if you are 65 or over the cut drops to $18. Book the barber you want on the shop's booking page or take whoever is free. Buzz cut or burr, with no line up and no taper, is $15 and runs about five minutes.

Haircut and Beard Service, $35

Cut and beard done together in one sitting, thirty five dollars. That is ten on top of the cut, and the beard on its own with a straight razor is $20. For anybody 65 and over there is a senior cut and beard trim at $25, which is the best value on the whole board and almost nobody knows it exists because it is buried in a booking app.

Beard Trim with Straight Razor, $20

The beard on its own, shaped up and taken off the neck and cheek line with a straight razor rather than clippers alone, which is what gets the edges properly clean. Twenty dollars. This is the handy one between cuts when the beard has got ahead of you and you are not due a haircut yet.

Head Shave and Hot Towel, $40

The shop's own description of this one lists a box shaver, a straight razor and a trimmer, so it is the full job rather than a quick pass. Forty dollars. If you shave your own head and have ever regretted it around the back, this is the answer to that.

Complete Grooming, $50

In the shop's own words, a haircut and style, eyebrow shape up, ear and nose hair removal, beard trim and shape up, hot towel treatment, and premium beard products for a fresh polished look. Fifty dollars. This is the one people book before a wedding, an interview or a photograph.

VIP Package, $100

The full hour. The shop writes it as haircut, style, beard trim, hot towel service, facial and eyebrow shape up, and describes it as the one for when you want to treat yourself. A hundred dollars and an hour in the chair, so book it properly rather than trying to squeeze it into a lunch break.

Finished work

Search your own shop name and a booking app wins, then Yelp tells people you are somebody else.

Here is the honest situation. Search for this shop and what comes back is a booking platform page, an Instagram account, a Facebook page and a couple of directory listings, and not one of them is owned by the shop. The 783 reviews sit on the platform, the customer list sits on the platform, and if the platform ever changes its terms or its pricing, all of it goes with it. It gets stranger. The Yelp listing on 502 West Main Street carries the name Ropps Barber Shop, and there is a second Yelp listing at the same street address under the name A-1 Barber Shop. So a stranger looking up this address gets two or three different business names and no way to tell which one is open. Meanwhile there is no page anywhere that shows the price list, the three barbers, the cash only rule and the hours in one place. The photos below are what that page would look like.

Chairs on West Main Street

Cuts that grow out clean

Beards shaped to the face

A straight razor still gets used here

Tools kept sharp and kept clean

Old school, and busy on it

Six days a week on West Main

How it works

How you get in the chair.

Pick a barber, or do not

Jarad and Brandon are both listed as Master Barber and Ty cuts as well. Everything on the price list is the same price whoever you sit down with. If you have a regular, book him by name on the shop's booking page. If you have never been in, take the first chair that is free.

Book online or ring (937) 869-5291

The shop runs online booking, so you can grab a slot without ringing anybody. The phone still works perfectly well if you would rather talk to a person. There is no published email address for this shop anywhere, so those two are the routes in.

Bring cash

The shop's own bio says cash only, in those words, so this is not a maybe. There is a bank machine on West Main if you get caught out. If you would rather put it on a card, ring first and ask instead of finding out in the chair.

Mind the booking policy

This one is published and it is real. Cancel less than 24 hours before your appointment and 50 percent of the service price is owed. A no call no show is 100 percent, and an outstanding balance has to be cleared before you can book again. That is the shop's own wording. Turn up or ring, and it is never an issue.

About us

Three barbers, ten published prices, and 769 people who gave it five stars.

Troy Barber Shop is at 502 West Main Street in Troy, in Miami County, and describes itself as a clean friendly old school barbershop, cash only. Three barbers work it, Jarad, Ty and Brandon, and two of the three are listed as Master Barber. The rating is 5.0 across 783 reviews, and the breakdown is worth saying out loud, 769 of them are five star. The price list is published in full and it is fair, a buzz cut at $15, a cut at $25, the same $25 for a kids cut, $18 if you are 65 or over, a beard with a straight razor at $20, a cut and beard together at $35, a head shave with a hot towel at $40, complete grooming at $50 and the VIP package at $100. There is parking, the shop is child friendly and there is wifi. Now here is what is going wrong, and none of it is about the haircuts. Every bit of that lives on somebody else's platform. The reviews are on it, the booking is on it, the customer list is on it, and the search result belongs to it. Yelp lists this address under the name Ropps Barber Shop, and separately under A-1 Barber Shop, so the shop's own address returns two other business names. A customer who hears about you at work and searches Troy Barber Shop that evening has to work out which of four or five pages is you. That is the whole problem. A single page you own, with the barbers, the price list, the cash only heads up and a button into the booking you already use, makes you the answer for your own name rather than renting it.

■5.0 across 783 reviews, 769 of them five star

■Three barbers, Jarad, Ty and Brandon, two listed as Master Barber

■Adult cut $25, kids cut $25, seniors 65 and over $18

■Beard with a straight razor $20, cut and beard together $35

■Head shave and hot towel $40, complete grooming $50, VIP $100

■Cash only, in the shop's own words, with parking and wifi

■502 W Main St, Troy, Miami County, phone (937) 869-5291

Hours

Monday9:00am to 6:00pm

Tuesday9:00am to 6:00pm

WednesdayClosed

Thursday9:00am to 6:00pm

Friday9:00am to 6:00pm

Saturday9:00am to 4:00pm

Sunday10:00am to 2:00pm

Being straight with you about where these came from. The Monday row is confirmed on the shop's own booking page, which showed 9:00am to 6:00pm. The other six rows come off the listing that sits on this street address under the Ropps Barber Shop name, and the full week is not readable on the booking page without logging in. So the two rows worth confirming are the Wednesday closure and the Sunday 10 to 2, because a Sunday afternoon is an unusual thing for a barber shop to be open and an easy thing for a listing to have wrong. Ring (937) 869-5291 if you are cutting it fine. On a live version of this page these seven rows get typed once by the shop and are then right everywhere.

Find us

502 W Main St, Troy, OH 45373

The shop is at 502 West Main Street in Troy, in Miami County. There is parking. One thing worth knowing before you search for it, this exact address also appears on Yelp under the name Ropps Barber Shop and again under A-1 Barber Shop, and nothing published anywhere explains whether those are prior owners or stale listings. If somebody sends you to Ropps on West Main, that is this building. Phone is (937) 869-5291.

(937) 869-5291

Get in touch

Ask about a chair.

Tell us who you want, what you are after and roughly when suits you, and somebody will come back to you. If you would rather not wait on a reply, ring (937) 869-5291 or use the shop's online booking and pick your own slot. There is no published email address for the shop, so those are the two live routes.