Anyone heard of Studio 64?

AnnieH wrote:

I've just had a phonecall from someone at Studio 64 saying I've won a free makeover and photo shoot.

Is this for real, cos it sounded like a scam to me, or just not very "free" at the least.
She was trying to bully me into making an appointment, when i said I didn't want to book straiht away, as I needed to check with OH when he would be able to look after the kids, she got a bit shirty with me.

I had the same experience! I felt really bad, because I kept asking all the way through the phone call if it was for real. But the woman was talking so fast that I felt something wasn't quite right about it. When I agreed to go for the makeover, she said that she needed my credit card details, for a "deposit". There's no way that if a company is giving you a prize they need to take a deposit, so I apologized and said (quite truthfully) that I couldn't afford it. The woman I spoke to was fairly persistent, giving me all sorts of options to call back and pay later. I did feel bad later on, because I found that I had entered the competition, and it says that you need to put down a deposit in the T&Cs, but there was something not quite right about the whole experience. I've stopped entering competitions for the moment!

everyone wins these, i've won bout 3, never done one though

I also remember that when I won it I couldnt say yes straight away as I needed to sort out if I could get a babysitter and even if I could afford the train fair. So I asked them if I could have a number to call back and they got really stroppy and said "Look do you want to come or not?". In the end I went but it was a wasted journey. The stupid thing was that at the time I was working as a make up artist and I was going to ask if they had any freelance work for me but they basically just laughed in my face.

My friend won this last year, luckily we don't live to far from London, so went up. Had make up done, hair done and piccies taken - the guy taking the photos was abolutely lovely.

We had to wait a while for the pictures to be ready to view, and yes, we did get the hard sell but neither of us could afford it (shame because the pictures were GORGEOUS), and then the guy showing us the pictures just seemed to lose interest in us when we said we could only afford one.

It seems really strange, Black Saturn, that you had to take all the make up off etc before leaving, we went out with the make up on, hair done, nice clothes still on, and went and took pictures ourself - a damn sight cheaper!!

Here is the picture we bought, as I said it's such a shame that we were unable to afford any more because they were lovely - looked so professional! (It's just gone a bit grainy where I resized it) I really like it as usually I hate pictures of myself.



Our experience of them was quite good, yes you do have to pay to get to where it is being held, and stay overnight if you have to, and you have to be prepared to put up with the hard sell and stick to your guns if you really can't afford more than 1, but all in all we had an enjoyable day.