Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/02/10

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Getting burned (was scanner or digicam)
From: Jerry Lehrer <jerryleh@pacbell.net>
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 12:34:19 -0800
References: <ECC6F7B330A26C40B652962C47DEA25801370B35@asc02.asc.upenn.edu>

KC

So at least you got paid the half up front, so it isn't a total loss.

Jerry

Kyle Cassidy wrote:

> So about two months ago this band calls me up and says "we want pix" and I
> said "fine" and quoted a price for 300 or so digiphotos on CD's that they
> could take with them when they left. Then they said "no no, digital sucks,
> we want medium format shots on tranny" and I said "okay" and quadrupled the
> price and said I wanted half upfront. So they came over, I shot a bunch of
> rolls of MF, took it to the processor, had contacts made, sent the contacts
> out with a bill. Sent another bill. Sent another bill, sent another bill.
> And now I have several hundred dollars worth of film processing sitting on
> my credit card waiting for a bunch of guys who ain't gonna pay me. My profit
> would have been the same either way, but there's several hundred dollars
> extra in overhead I get to eat this time.
>
> kc
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