To cancel the underwater photoshoot

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Essexgirlupnorth · 17/10/2014 21:43

Doing our first term with a baby swimming school and included was a underwater photoshoot in a couple of weeks. Got the welcome pack through with prices and wasn't entirely unsurprised about how extortionate the prices are but didn't cancel it then.
My car failed it's MOT and going to cost best part of a grand to fix it. Been back a work a month after returning from maternity leave so not flush at the moment. Photoshoot is after paid day but don't really want to be talked into spending a couple of hundred quid on photos I'm not that bothered about.
Should I just cancel it and explain I'm skint or not turn up on the day because DD is sick?

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BOFster · 17/10/2014 21:45

Is it No Obligation?

Charitybelle · 17/10/2014 21:45

A couple of hundred quid!! I had this done for dd and it was £25 for 5 photos! Brilliant photos so def worth it, but no way would I have spent that much. They're taking the proverbial, cancel it.

fairgame · 17/10/2014 21:45

Just cancel it, you don't have to do it if you don't want to. My friend had one done and the photo's were naff for the price they charged.

youbethemummylion · 17/10/2014 21:45

Just cancel you don't have to do it and there will be other opportunities which maybe you will be in a better position to take up in the future

starlight1234 · 17/10/2014 21:46

If you don't want the pic then cancel. However I still have underwater photo of my DS as tiny baby on wall and it is still a talking point 6 years later.

I was told his picture was kept on file for years so it could be something you could purchase in the future , just depends how you feel.

Smartiepants79 · 17/10/2014 21:47

If you're not that interested in them then don't bother.
Cancel it.

TheRealMaryMillington · 17/10/2014 21:50

Just cancel - if you say she is sick they will just try to reschedule
Sorry if this offends anyone upthread but these photos have become such a cliche, everyone's got one (apart from miserablists like me on kid number 3)

ByTheWishingWell · 17/10/2014 21:54

Cancel if you're sure you don't want the pictures.
We're going tomorrow. The prices are absolutely shocking (£60 for one print, £200 for 3 on a memory stick kind of shocking), but I think we'll end up buying something if they turn out well. It seems like loads now, but I'll be glad to have it in a few years.

My parents and grandparents still have the one of my nephew on their bathroom walls 4 years on, and it is still a talking point.

TheBooMonster · 17/10/2014 22:15

We went to one of those shoots. I was actually quite disappointed with the pictures, at least you saw a price list before you went, we didn't see one till we went to look at the pictures!! had I seen the cost of the photo's I'd have saved my self the cost of the shoot and used it to cover a few more lessons. We left with no photos but I think we were in the very significant minority with that and the ladies there were all quite surprised O.o

Our Tumble Tots group had a photographer in recently, the photos were so cheep in comparison (a whole bleeding pack of framed pictures for the cost of a single one of those underwater ones) that we went a bit overboard in the end, and the cost for getting them on a disk was something like £25 for the first and £8 for each thereafter, still not exactly cheap as chips, but far more reasonable!

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Essexgirlupnorth · 17/10/2014 22:19

Thanks think I will ring and cancel this time. Part of me would like to see what the photos look like. Thought I was going to have to cancel a few ago as she refused to do any underwater swims.
I had some photos done at Jessops which were lovely and 12 images with a print and digital copy for less than one of these costs.

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