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baby photography rip off - should I just pay the photographer? so expensive

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kateonamission · 31/12/2016 11:37

I was bought a photoshoot as a gift for my baby girl and have just been back to see the pictures and am so shocked at the prices to buy! £1000 for the images on a disk (there were 23 images) or £600 for low res images on a phone app. No prints included. Prints ranged from £60 to £200 each, and you don't get a digital copy of it with it, just the print.
Am I crazy or is this insane?
I'm finding it so hard to walk away from the pictures of my baby, obviously this is what they are banking on, feels so awful that her pictures will be gone forever if I don't buy them but at that price I feel really really reluctant and would feel totally ripped off.
I did ask if there was any movement and he was quite rude to me in response, with comments like 'I have to make a living you know' and 'you can't have your cake and eat it' when I asked about including the digitals if I bought the expensive prints from him. My heart and my head are torn! Help!

OP posts:
Countrymum0308 · 27/05/2017 23:33

It wasn't Portland studios in Sandgate was it? He only has a few reviews all really good. I was starting to doubt that I am in the right.

We bought a shoot then showed the pics everything I said we needed to have a think he threatened to delete the photos. We were pressured into putting down a deposit for our images.

When we got home I emailed saying we couldn't afford the photos and he said he won't give us our money back. I don't want to go to social media and I wanted to settle it amicably but I think I am going to be forced to. I just want to warn other couples that this photographer prays on new families to con them out of a load of money.

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