Client requested shoot & burn to justify requested discount (need to read this!!)

8 years 3 weeks ago #480566 by Tony Imaging
I ticked off  a potential client today.  They gripped at my rates and then when she was trying to justify how I could accept her low offer (30% of what my normal rate is for wedding).  She goes "most photographers just shoot and throw the photos on a CD" then goes on saying "it's not like you are building a bridge, all you are doing is looking through a hole on your camera and snapping shots off, it's not rocket science.  I don't understand why you won't take a lower offer.  Wouldn't you rather have something, than nothing?".

This was the first time I got up from a meeting, and asked them to leave.  I indicated I wasn't the right photographer for them.  Then she got furious and stated, "your business is doomed, all the other photographers are accepting what they can get".  Then as she was walking away, her silent husband put his arm around her and said "we'll get someone better".  And then, she finishes off with "I didn't like that f'ing aXXhole anyway.".

LOL this story was too good not to share with you all today.  Boy what handful she must be.  


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8 years 3 weeks ago - 8 years 3 weeks ago #480575 by Stealthy Ninja
I bet they'll end up with Uncle Bob taking the photos for them.

Good luck to that dude getting married to her.  Sounds like a real classy lady.

I hate the idea that some people have that photography is just pointing the camera and pressing a button... you're better off not having clients like that.

all you are doing is looking through a hole on your camera and snapping shots off, it's not rocket science.

LOL and cooking is just heating up food.   I wonder what she does for a living.  
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8 years 3 weeks ago #480578 by Amy Porter
How rude, people like that deserve what they get.  


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8 years 3 weeks ago #480637 by Neil Dulay
WOW that's someone who would most likely come to the wedding with an assault weapon.  Sounds like the man upstairs just did you a favor!


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8 years 3 weeks ago #480643 by Screamin Scott
She's seen too many Craigs List photography ads....

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8 years 3 weeks ago #480663 by msmith55

Screamin Scott wrote: She's seen too many Craigs List photography ads....


Amen to that. Let her teenage kid take the photos of the event.


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8 years 3 weeks ago #480676 by Tim Chiang
What a tool, good thing that didn't work out.  I'd bet that would have been a nightmare.  


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8 years 3 weeks ago #480679 by Joves

Screamin Scott wrote: She's seen too many Craigs List photography ads....

:rofl: :agree:
Yes the new ailment is Craigs Syndrome. Symptoms are thinking that everything should be dirt cheap, and the delusion that photography is easy.


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8 years 3 weeks ago #480692 by Sammy Marc
Sounds like you're better off not having worked for her. Feel bad for the next photographer she accosts!!


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8 years 3 weeks ago #480697 by EOS Man
I'm sorry, but that is just hilarious.  Yeah, sucks that you had to waste your time with such an idiot.  I find the humor in that, what is going through her head?!

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8 years 3 weeks ago #480781 by Paris Gal
I would have done the same.  Things happen for a reason, I feel bad for the poor sap that takes on this client.  I can see this being a person that you do a stand up job and they still leave a negative review. 

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8 years 3 weeks ago #480792 by phaller
I guess that's where the term bridezilla comes from?!


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8 years 3 weeks ago #480821 by Gus
Craig's syndrome indeed. It's great how accessible photography has become, but unfortunately things like this happen more and more as a result. Any idiot with a camera thinks they can take incredible pictures, not understanding the time, effort, and patience it takes to learn how to do it. Tis a shame.


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8 years 3 weeks ago #480847 by Tim Dordeck
Smart move, i would have done the same


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8 years 3 weeks ago #480863 by Hassner
How classy of you to just leave.
I can think of ten things I would have said before I left.

"If you do not know the difference between a good and a bad photo, why not get a family member or friend. You can get it for free!"


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