On a wedding I do charge extra to deal with the order processing. In general I have found little to no resistance to clients understanding that they should be paying for a service. The service is to take the wedding photos or family portraits. Most of them are quite happy to see the breakout of my time/service vs prints/lab charges.
Perhaps if I was doing this full time as a profession, I might have different feelings. Hard to say. So far it is working. I get my money up front, I don't really care or worry about how much they order and the couple seem to order more (maybe cause they don't feel like I am gouging them for the prints). They seem very good about separating my fee from the prints. -- Best regards, Bruce Wednesday, December 24, 2003, 12:58:46 PM, you wrote: >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Bruce Dayton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> >> Not an easy thing to deal with. Cheap people are just cheap! One >> route that I have gone is to quit trying to make money on the prints >> and just charge up front for the job/time. t> The only quibble I have with this is that order processing is so time t> consuming and annoying. If you really want to go this route, make t> *all* your money up front and *give* them the negs or high res files. t> tv
