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To ask your opinion and experiences with a Bounty Photographer

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Emlou07 · 21/01/2018 13:08

Both of my DD were prem so I never experienced one. But I have read quite a lot of bad reports surrounding the reps.

I’ve been offered a job as a ‘Bounty Lady’ only 3 days a week. Fully aware it’s commissioned based. I’m not doing it to pay the bills. So if I take the job, I wouldn’t be a ‘pushy’ rep. So that side of things isn’t an issue.

I’m more interested in what your expietences were? Good or bad? Value for money?

Are they really that disliked? Confused

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Dinosauratemydaffodils · 21/01/2018 13:44

I was somewhat psychotic after ds was born plus he was in NICU however the Bounty lady stood out as one of the few people in the hospital who actually gave a fuck along with the cleaning staff according to my very worried dh. She gave us a pack and some samples without asking for details etc.

Tink2007 · 21/01/2018 13:44

I hated the Bounty lady from my first DD. She had only been born about an hour and she didn’t ask, just started snapping away pictures. It was an awful experience.

We never saw one with our 2nd DD.

stitchglitched · 21/01/2018 13:46

With my last baby she was wearing a tunic that looked like a healthcare uniform, carrying a clipboard and didn't bother identifying herself to me but started asking for my personal information. There was no suggestion of this being an optional service and her approach to me seemed to have the attitude that my interaction with her was non negotiable. I refused to give her any info and made it very clear that I wasn't interested in speaking to her. She was a bit huffy about it but left me alone.

QueenAravisOfArchenland · 21/01/2018 13:50

I agree with PPs: a professional photographer and salesperson (if you can call them "professional photographers" has no business being given access to a hospital ward, period. It's grotesque and unethical whether the salesperson is "nice" or not and it's a fucking travesty that hospitals allow it. Many of them do actively lie and misrepresent themselves to look like medical professionals or like you "have" to deal with them.

If you really want pics of your boxfresh newborn family and friends can snap a few, or you can have a pro visit when you're home.

DappledThings · 21/01/2018 13:52

I've had two overnight stays on a post-labour ward and never seen a Bounty rep there. With DC1 there was one in the waiting room at my 12 week scan who pissed me right off but never saw one again.

This was at King's College Hospital in London in 2016 and 2017. Just curious as to whether I just got lucky or if anyone thinks King's have banned them.

QueenAravisOfArchenland · 21/01/2018 13:53

DappledThings: I mercifully never saw one in a two-night stay at Kings (I would've thrown something) so I suspect that Kings have indeed banned them.

lookingforthecorkscrew · 21/01/2018 13:54

As if I want a woman with a clipboard all up in my tits while I’m leaking colostrum and lochia...

welshgirlwannabe · 21/01/2018 13:59

Sounds horrible, why would you want that to be your job? Especially if you don't need the money? Disgraceful and they should be banned everywhere. I suspect they are banned from my hospital (Wales) as I've never seen one or heard of anyone else being approached in this way. Thankfully.

Bearsinmotion · 21/01/2018 14:00

I have no idea why anyone with moral integrity would want to do that job. If you don’t want the money what do you want? You could just be a photographer.

I also don’t know what you mean about “value for money”? For the photos? Otherwise no money changes hands, it’s just a cheap shitty bag of freebies in exchange for personal data so you can be hounded for months afterwards.

MissDuke · 21/01/2018 14:02

I personally would never do that job. As a company, they are incredibly unethical, harassing new mothers who generally are very vulnerable. I want them banned from wards.

citybzg · 21/01/2018 14:04

So if I take the job, I wouldn’t be a ‘pushy’ rep.

That's exactly what you would be.

Bounty reps are there for a reason.

UpABitLate · 21/01/2018 14:06

And the government / NHS trusts is / were actually PAYING bounty to do this...

RamseysIdiotSandwich · 21/01/2018 14:07

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ButtMuncher · 21/01/2018 14:15

I was high as a kite and emotionally distressed when the Bounty lady appeared - I had a section, I was leaking and couldn't move very well, and was struggling to get a nappy on my 3 hour old son.

She was polite but my god I felt awkward. I still can't believe we allow it on wards with vulnerable women in recovery. It's opportunism in abundance and makes me really angry.

RedHelenB · 21/01/2018 14:18

Lovely. Had Bounty pictures for all 3 of mine and the pack was good value. Some people just like to complain!

DotCottonDotCom · 21/01/2018 14:20

My DD was 27weeks, I experienced one.

She bounced into the room screeching “photograph tiiiime! Oh we’re baby”

Fighting for her life on a vent you absolute twat.

DD2 was full term and I told the Bounty woman to get out the room.

These people should NEVER be allowed in a hospital

GerdaLovesLili · 21/01/2018 14:20

After a very late miscarriage I was put on the post natal ward as there were no more suitable beds available. I was put on the ward quite early in the morning and had the curtains drawn around the bed.

You can imagine how I felt, listening to the other new mothers and their brand new babies on the ward.

The Bounty Lady swept the curtains aside without asking, and then said, "where's your baby?".

I hate Bounty and all their agents.

Rockandrollwithit · 21/01/2018 14:21

My experience with my second was awful. DS had been transferred to a hospital 100 miles away for emergency surgery, which we had been warned that he might not survive (thankfully he did). I was in bits in a side room.

The bounty lady came in all "where is the baby?" and just would not leave. She just kept talking and I really did not care at that point. Really inconsiderate.

DotCottonDotCom · 21/01/2018 14:21

Honestly OP it’s morally wrong to work for those fuckers

Rockandrollwithit · 21/01/2018 14:22

Seriously, the hospitals should tell the bounty reps which rooms/bays to avoid. Not everyone on a postnatal ward has a healthy baby.

UpABitLate · 21/01/2018 14:25

RedHelenB

"Lovely. Had Bounty pictures for all 3 of mine and the pack was good value. Some people just like to complain!"

Are you a Bounty person?

You've read the stories of women who have suffered late miscarriages, babies in SCBU and other just feeling terribly unwell, high, in pain, and that's your comment?

I don't understand people like you. I suppose lots of people have always lacked empathy.

TallulahBetty · 21/01/2018 14:25

Morally repugnant twats

Also

I know you said youre not bothered if you don't get the sales for commission. Bounty might be bothered tho, so you might not last long...

Bearsinmotion · 21/01/2018 14:27

I don't understand people like you. I suppose lots of people have always lacked empathy

Quite. That’s where Bounty get their reps from.

lalalalyra · 21/01/2018 14:30

I'm so glad my local hospital no longer allows them on the ward. They have a desk/area near the day room and can only come into the ward to take photos/deliver packs if you ask them too.

Too many of them make out that you have to give them details to get the child benefit form.

StargazyDrifter · 21/01/2018 14:31

I had never heard of this until this thread and find the very idea staggering. The model is utterly unacceptable in my view. As others have said, it's preying on the vulnerable and confused (and having been in post-op wards that is exactly what most people are, as I imagine they are on maternity wards). This shouldn't be allowed. Does the NHS get money from this, is that why they allow it? Still unacceptable.