To think the school are charging too much? School photos

[HelenaBuggeredItUp]

£60 for: 1 x A4 b&w print of siblings
1 x A4 print of class photo
1 x A4 sheet of DC1
1 x A4 sheet of DC2
1 x A4 sheet of a calendar with photo on on DC1 & DC2
4 x 4 postcards with tiny copy of sibling photo on photo paper with a crappy Christmas message and tree on.

The photos are on photo paper but didn't even come in those cardboard type frames. To add to the insult, they are not good fucking dreadful photos.

AIBU to feel like they are taking the piss?

How much were yours and what did you get for the money?

I got a digital copy only - emailed to me - for about £20 and I then printed off as many as I wanted. That was Tempest, IIRC.

I paid £10 for a lovely photo to be sent as a file to my computer which i shared with grandparents so that can print if they choose and to what size they want. I am still to order ours ... in fact his pre school one is not hung yet

School photos are too expensive for what they are in my experience, but it's the companies that charge that much, not the school, although the schools do sometimes get commission to add to school funds.

One year when our school photos were very expensive, the school noticed that there were significantly less orders, and switched the company they used the following year.

If enough people tell the school they are unhappy with what is being offered by the company they use, then they might look for another one.

We have just paid £40 for 2xlarge photos, 4 medium photos and a sheet (9?) of passport sized photos. I think it's a rip off but it's ds1 first school pics so I felt I had to buy them, shocking photo too

That seems ok for the class photo too. Are there different packages though? We went for the cheapie option of one 7"x5" portait. It would have annoyed me to only have the £60 as an option.

But it's the company who charges, not the school.

Ours were pretty reasonable. I paid £12 for a copy via email.

The photographer obviously wasn't very good at their job. All of them are bad.

We paid £33 for

1x extra large
2x large
4x medium
6x desk
12x passport sized plus the photo digitally

this is with Tempest and we only buy the photo of both children, never singly unless in first or last year at school

In the class photo only 3 kids are smiling and looking at the camera, even the teacher couldn't muster a smile.

No different packages but you can buy extra for another £59.

I would dress them in uniform and go to max speilman

Ours must have been quite reasonable then. I paid £15 for one large, two medium and four slightly smaller ones. They all came with cardboard mounts.
Obviously the price was pretty good but shame about DD1 clearly trying too hard to smile and ending up just showing her teeth in a really odd and slightly scary way!

Sounds like a lot of photos for £60. Re: the quality, did you get a proof first? I just wouldn't have bought them! Bad that they don't have any other choice of package though.

we just dress ours in uniform and take a pic on a sunny day against the brick wall of our house - they are ALWAYS better pics than the school ones which we don't bother with.

We've just had our school photos back so I can tell you exactly what we paid - £28.50 for one 7" x 10", two 7" x 5", two 5" x 3.5", four 3.5" x 2.5", nine mini prints and one 8" x 10" calendar.

That was the most expensive photo package - the others started at £9.50 for two 5" x 3.5".

I've been moaning that I had to buy two lots of photos - our school does individual photos and then one of siblings together but every year one or the other of my kids will look odd in the siblings photo and I end up having to buy the separate ones!

There is just 4 postcard type ones. Don't know why I wrote 4 x 4.

I don't think we will be buying them, and will do like others here say and take them to somewhere else to get the picture done.

I do the same as Shopgirl and take my own photos. I refuse to pay the prices for contrived photos with cheesy grins.

We just paid 11.00 for keyring photos, but the photo was awful and did wonder why it was such an awful photo ..I dont know how many they take of each child eg one snap and then the next child...

Does anyone remember that thread about a year ago when someone swore blind the schools were being bribed by the photo companies? IIRC she had some relative in the police and was going to blow the whole thing right open but we never heard any more.