I don't know what I think of this show. It is like a car accident. I know I shouldn't look, but not only do I look, I can't look at anything else until it's past, and then I think about it afterword.
Oliver is the only reason I actually sat through it. The tattooers are terrible except for the few that have been mentioned. Navarro is a douche with terrible tattoos, and Nunez is mediocre tattooer.
The ammount of money paid to cast members of reality television can be extremely extravagant. The jersey shore kids are getting 60-100k per episode. They are cheap to make, and the advertising still generates a ton of revenue. most of which is spent on keeping the "talent" in various states of retarded.
I would have no trouble believing that Peck is probably getting 25-30k an episode and Nunez getting 50-75k and Navarro about the same, because they are "known entities" and in the eyes of a production company a known entity has a fan base built in so they bring in guaranteed viewers.
I know how these shows work because I worked on an MTV reality show a few years ago that I can't name but it was full of retarded, fake girls who were given 100,000 every week to blow on booze, blow and cologen.
My problem with the show is that they are letting people get fucked up by these obvious no talent ass clowns, like Al Flicktion and B-tard. People are stupid, so if they are down with a free tattoo by an artist that they don't know, so be it, get screwed. A sucker is born every minute.
That said, I will probably keep watching. In fact I bet I can't not watch every time it is on.
