Expensive photograph

[livewire]

I thought to myself, what a wonderful gift to give my parents, I'll order a print, not framed, just a print, of my daughters grad picture. $44? Additional prints were only $40? Am I out to lunch or is that a little out there?

[Captain Awesome]

Sounds about right. I used to freelance as a grad photographer, good money in it.

[ToddT]

All school photos, not just grad photos are outrageously over priced. We just do the Walmart thing now for us and the kids. It's sad, but for $40-$50 I can get the whole family done, plus individual shots of the kids.

[wanderingchef]

yeah but then your supporting WAL-MART, a company that cares nothing of this community or the people that create it. Does that make it worth saving a few bucks?.................

[livewire]

A FEW bucks? Few? Make it a FEW and I'll support local business all the way. But to me this is not a FEW bucks.

[Bsuds]

A scanner and printer come to mind.

[Fancy]

But then it depends on the size of the photo and price of the ink. I've used Walmart and London Drugs for specific projects. In this case, it's an order so I'm assuming actual photo isn't available to copy from.

[Bsuds]

That's true, sometimes it's cheaper and easier to take it somewhere. Sometimes Costco has prints for .08 ea.

[Fancy]

I always kick myself I don't bring my camera card to Costco for the prints. I don't think they would copy a grad photo (copyrighted) though some people might get away with it.

[Bsuds]

I thought to myself, what a wonderful gift to give my parents, I'll order a print, not framed, just a print, of my daughters grad picture. $44? Additional prints were only $40? Am I out to lunch or is that a little out there?

While that does sound expensive you have to consider that you are paying for the Photographer's time as well as the photo.
For instance how long does it take you to sit at your computer and find 1 specific photo and then print it out?

[Anonymous123]

yeah but then your supporting WAL-MART, a company that cares nothing of this community or the people that create it. Does that make it worth saving a few bucks?.................

So you are saying that the employees care nothing about their community. If everyone boycotted WAL-MART and shut them down,there would be a lot of people unemployed. People from your community. You should be thanking WAL-MART for providing paycheques to help the economy in your town.

[LANDM]

yeah but then your supporting WAL-MART, a company that cares nothing of this community or the people that create it. Does that make it worth saving a few bucks?.................

Perhaps you should ask the very significant number of local people that work at Walmart whether they are part of the community and help create it. Perhaps ask them whether they feel that their paycheques are of assistance to them or the community. Perhaps ask the people who shop there, willingly and not with a gun to their heads, whether they are happy that Walmart is in the community.
Come back and report your findings and see whether you still believe that your statement is true.

[atenbacon]

Wallmart employees are bussed in from other communities, everyone knows this...


Either that or people that comment about Wallmart doing nothing or not caring for their local economy or communities are clueless.


Pick one of those options.

[Bsuds]

I'll take door #2

[kgcayenne]

Sears has a really nice photographer and reasonable prices.