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This has happened to me twice in the last week, thankfully, just at quoting. I walked away from both, but the ridiculousness of their thought process was illustrated so perfectly here.
in response to a fair estimate for a photo shoot, I actually got a long nasty letter from some goofball who thought it silly that a photographer should charge him to take the pictures out of their camera, for the time spent working for him after the actual shoot.
perhaps he thinks the camera, the lighting equipment, the software needed to open and process raw images, health insurance, shouldn’t be factored into pricing…
Covered just about every trick in the book before ‘the cheque is in the post’. Applicable to all commerce. Genius. How did the people who made the video get paid?
May 27th, 2009 at 10:40 am
Yes!! What a great way to put things in perspective.
Oscar Williams
May 27th, 2009 at 12:14 pm
I agree, it is brilliant and applicable to so many creative industries not just advertising/marketing.
May 27th, 2009 at 4:08 pm
Hahaha, Love it. Thank you so much for posting this
May 27th, 2009 at 7:36 pm
I’ll bring this in my iPod next time I have to negotiate =)))
Thanks, Leslie !
Ana
May 28th, 2009 at 8:25 am
Through the heart.
I’ll send this to some clients I used to work with.
John
May 28th, 2009 at 9:44 am
[...] Grazie a Leslie Burns Dell’Acqua [...]
May 28th, 2009 at 10:55 pm
This has happened to me twice in the last week, thankfully, just at quoting. I walked away from both, but the ridiculousness of their thought process was illustrated so perfectly here.
May 29th, 2009 at 3:34 pm
Like many other photographers, I’ve often heard the ol’, “Can we use your image on our website? We’ll credit you.”
My response? “Oh I’d love to but the last time I was at the grocery store, they refused to let me buy food with a photo credit.”
May 31st, 2009 at 12:26 pm
absolutely brilliant. It’s being passed around facebook!
May 31st, 2009 at 12:40 pm
in response to a fair estimate for a photo shoot, I actually got a long nasty letter from some goofball who thought it silly that a photographer should charge him to take the pictures out of their camera, for the time spent working for him after the actual shoot.
perhaps he thinks the camera, the lighting equipment, the software needed to open and process raw images, health insurance, shouldn’t be factored into pricing…
May 31st, 2009 at 11:50 pm
Just brillilant – the very reasons I no longer bother with cr*p clients.
June 1st, 2009 at 12:02 am
Covered just about every trick in the book before ‘the cheque is in the post’. Applicable to all commerce. Genius. How did the people who made the video get paid?
June 2nd, 2009 at 5:37 am
Saw this on the EP site. I just get more discouraged when I see this stuff. The Harlan Ellison video is another one.
June 6th, 2009 at 7:15 pm
What starts with “C”, ends in “NT” and there’s a lie in the middle of all of them?
CLIENT!
June 30th, 2009 at 5:48 am
Anyone been brave enough to show this to a client asking you to work for nothing?
September 5th, 2011 at 8:30 am
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