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.
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.”
absolutely brilliant. It’s being passed around facebook!
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…
Just brillilant – the very reasons I no longer bother with cr*p clients.
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?
Saw this on the EP site. I just get more discouraged when I see this stuff. The Harlan Ellison video is another one.
What starts with “C”, ends in “NT” and there’s a lie in the middle of all of them?
CLIENT!
Anyone been brave enough to show this to a client asking you to work for nothing?
Yes!! What a great way to put things in perspective.
Oscar Williams
I agree, it is brilliant and applicable to so many creative industries not just advertising/marketing.
Hahaha, Love it. Thank you so much for posting this 🙂
I’ll bring this in my iPod next time I have to negotiate =)))
Thanks, Leslie !
Ana
Through the heart.
I’ll send this to some clients I used to work with.
John
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.
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.”
absolutely brilliant. It’s being passed around facebook!
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…
Just brillilant – the very reasons I no longer bother with cr*p clients.
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?
Saw this on the EP site. I just get more discouraged when I see this stuff. The Harlan Ellison video is another one.
What starts with “C”, ends in “NT” and there’s a lie in the middle of all of them?
CLIENT!
Anyone been brave enough to show this to a client asking you to work for nothing?