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To ask your opinion and experiences with a Bounty Photographer

94 replies

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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Winosaurus · 21/01/2018 16:51

I don’t know who I hate more... bounty reps or over-zealous traffic wardens 😂😂😂

aaaaargghhhhelpme · 21/01/2018 16:54

GinnyBaker Flowers

frasier · 21/01/2018 16:57

I have never heard of this. DS was born in a private hospital, presumably they were not let in!

I am amazed salespeople are allowed in hospitals.

fastfrank · 21/01/2018 17:11

I wasn't offered photos but the bounty lady came into my room just as I was heading into the loo to do my massive post c-section release of gas (anyone who's been there will sympathise!) and I pretty much told her to go away, unfortunately my mum was there and signed me up so she stood there talking right outside the door...not ideal. When I was finished in the loo I just feigned interest until she went away. Was quite good having someone else there so I didn't have to deal with it. I wish they were banned, fuck off with your selling shit whilst I'm trying to recover from surgery and look after two newborns!

elliejjtiny · 21/01/2018 17:28

My experience isn't as bad as most people's on this thread. My baby was in neonatal and the bounty lady came in every day and sighed and tutted every time I told her that no, my baby wasn't with me. They shouldn't be allowed on a hospital ward and I think it's very unfair that women on postnatal have to put up with them, as if they deserve less than the other patients.

Decemberqueen · 21/01/2018 17:38

I just asked her to take a photo for his passport. Save us doing it later. May have been cheaper elsewhere in hindsight.
As an aside, on our first trip to Spain, at the departure airport, the passport control guy looked at the photo, looked at my DS who was 18 months and whose hair had turned blond from black in the photo, shrugged his shoulders and waved us through.

Original poster
Emlou07 · 21/01/2018 18:03

Thank you for all your replies.

Flowers To all those who had bad expierences, poorly babies and losses Flowers

I will not accept the job. I have absolutely no idea how bad this company was. (I knew very little about them other than they take photos. I didn’t know they sold on info etc)

Since posting this I have read many stories and had a look at petitions and I’m equally as enraged.

Those asking why I was thinking of taking the job if I didn’t need to.. Because I am a SAHM and my youngest is about to start Nursery for longer periods and I wanted to take a step back into the working world after not working for 5 years. I shall look into something else!

I agree, morally wrong and they shouldn’t be allowed on wards!

Both of mine (20 months apart) were prem and in nicu. I was on the ward for 9 days with my first before I had to go home and 4 days with my second. I briefly saw one when I had my 2nd who left a bounty pack and an extra towel and nappy for my DD to play dress up with. Other than that I had no interaction.

Thank you for your input! X

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Emlou07 · 21/01/2018 18:04

Sorry, I HAD* no idea.

I do now!

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Littleraincloud · 21/01/2018 18:22

I scared the one on the ward with my first son. I was still high off drugs from a forceps delivery, exhausted but still awake, and I think in shock, and I talked about a load of shit, loudly, then tried getting her to change my sheets as I'd bled a lot...... bet she regretted asking me

TallulahBetty · 21/01/2018 18:23

Good decision OP Flowers

Can't believe they are allowed - they wouldn't be on any other ward. Or if men gave birth. Imagine!

StargazyDrifter · 21/01/2018 18:50

Thank you for popping back to tell us, and very best of luck with whatever you pursue!

Louiselouie0890 · 21/01/2018 18:54

I felt very overwhelmed. I felt like I was on another planet having a photography shoot in a hospital feeling like I did. She didn't explain very well it was very pushed and I felt very bombarded. Sort of a bull in a China shop invading my space when I'm barely together. She could have done with a bit more of a softer touch iyswim

alfagirl73 · 21/01/2018 19:07

Some of these experiences are awful! It's horrendous that anyone like that should be allowed the freedom to go wandering around barging in on vulnerable women who are going through some very private, emotional and difficult moments!

As some people have said above, some people shouldn't be allowed in hospitals! It's not pregnancy related, but when I was at the hospital with my Mum during my Dad's final days, we were sitting waiting to go back into his room, both of us rather tearful and looking very upset/concerned and this woman with a clipboard came bouncing up and very brightly said "hello! I'm from xxxx" (I can't remember where she was from - not hospital staff!) "I'd like to talk to you about death awareness week!". As long as I live, I will never know how I didn't punch that woman! I get the rage and very upset even thinking about her and I wish I knew where she was from so I could make a formal complaint.

It's utterly baffling to me how people like this can go bouncing around hospitals with zero awareness of where they are or what people might be going through!

ifitquackslikeaduck · 21/01/2018 19:19

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JediStoleMyBike · 21/01/2018 19:24

I warned my DH in advance that they'd arrive and as soon as she popped in her politely said no thanks and got rid of her after we got the Bounty pack.
Lady in bay next door decided to have the photos and so my curtains were opened (while I had a boob out trying to establish feeding) so that she could move further back from the cot the baby was in to get a better picture. I cried. Hard labour, 2 hours pushing, ended in EMCS. DH not so polite the second time.

RedHelenB · 21/01/2018 20:34

She had to go near the babies to take their photograph which the mums gave permission for. I had long and difficult births with multiple first two and she wasn't pushy at all just asked if I wanted photos done and gave the pack.

Follyfoot · 21/01/2018 21:17

No-one should be trying to sell anything on a bloody hospital ward, it's immoral. I dont give a flying fuck how polite or non-pushy they are, they shouldn't be there.

Turnocks34 · 21/01/2018 21:35

Hated it. Woman approached me when I was feeling most vulnerable, 4 hours after giving birth, alone, exhausted. Took some mediocre pictures of my son, and then basically told me if I loved my son I'd spend £58 on pictures to remember his first day on this earth.

Differentcorner · 21/01/2018 21:54

As a midwife I feel bounty is utterly awful. I have seen many women who cannot afford to feed themselves being talked in to purchasing photos etc. How this can be allowed on our hospitals is unbelievable to me. They also interrupt precious time when trying to support and care for women and it's just another thing I have to try and work around. I'm sure the people that work for them are lovely I just feel it's awful to be getting women at their weakest!

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