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Photographer - worth haggling!
ps_live
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Hi, just a quick note to say that if you ARE budgeting for a photographer, it really IS worth haggling for a better price ... they can only say no.
After several phone calls, we had whittled our list down to two, and have now seen them both and they were £895 and £1200 respectively for similar packages. What I would say at this point was that I was far more impressed with the £1200 guy, his pictures were far superior and the layout of his albums seemed to have a lot more thought and care attached to them.
We are on a budget though, so the cost is a significant concern to us. I decided to ring the £1200 guy and explain that we loved his photo's but he was over £300 more than the other guy. I told him it was purely a budget decision, and if he could do anything to help in this area, it could influence our decision.
He said he couldn't get near the £895, but what he could do would be to increase the album from 30 pages to 40 pages (an additional £90 if paid for) and if we paid cash, drop the package price to £1100. So, a saving of £190 (just under 15%) in total. We are really happy with this :j
If you don't ask, you don't get! :j:j:j
After several phone calls, we had whittled our list down to two, and have now seen them both and they were £895 and £1200 respectively for similar packages. What I would say at this point was that I was far more impressed with the £1200 guy, his pictures were far superior and the layout of his albums seemed to have a lot more thought and care attached to them.
We are on a budget though, so the cost is a significant concern to us. I decided to ring the £1200 guy and explain that we loved his photo's but he was over £300 more than the other guy. I told him it was purely a budget decision, and if he could do anything to help in this area, it could influence our decision.
He said he couldn't get near the £895, but what he could do would be to increase the album from 30 pages to 40 pages (an additional £90 if paid for) and if we paid cash, drop the package price to £1100. So, a saving of £190 (just under 15%) in total. We are really happy with this :j
If you don't ask, you don't get! :j:j:j
Debt-free as of 01.10.08. I will never have a CC again and I'm "in the black" :beer:
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Well done you!Love MSE, Las Vegas and chocolate!0
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A good way of saving is to discuss with the photographer just to give you a CD with the high quality image files (JPGs). You can then make your own book at Photobox or Bob books.0
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