Pricing question

colblimp

I'm covering a 70th birthday party in a few weeks and have the attendance fee sorted. The problem I have is thus: I'd come up with a price list for prints when the woman asked if she could have the pics on a CD so 'she can print as and when she wants'. Her Son-in-Law gave her the idea.

What should I charge for said CD or should I point blank refuse? I'm going to lose an awful lot of potential money by giving a CD and I'm not happy having to go down that road. Any advice would be great.

pixbyjohn

Give her a CD of low res shots. Keep the high res files on your computer so you can have them printed for her at your price when she comes back complaining about her printer :P

dingding

pixbyjohn wrote: »

Give her a CD of low res shots. Keep the high res files on your computer so you can have them printed for her at your price when she comes back complaining about her printer :P

The only problem is she would probably not realise they were low resolution and probably not come back for more.

You could watermark them or refuse to do it.

Put the CD in a clear sleeve and hope they store it on a window sill

jpfahy

Or apply a light watermark

frozenfrozen

Just tell them there's no point in having a photographer if you're going to get the pictures printed cheaply... Might as well have a friend with a point and shoot if they're going to end up coming off a home printer at 300dpi onto acid based 90gsm tesco a4 paper

pullandbang

Tell her she can have it for a price which is basically whatever no of pics you put on it X the price of each print. Also, she can have it after a reasonable period of time has passed so that the others can buy their prints from you at your normal fee.

CabanSail

I would tell her that it's your normal practice to supply a copy of the prints ordered on CD anyway. So the situation is a the same as before.

colblimp

Thanks, guys. That's an interesting selection of replies, all of which have been embedded into my brain.