Entitled Client thinks he can "PAY ME IN EXPOSURE" for my Photography
Am I the Jerk?
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🗓️ 9 November 2022
⏱️ 21 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | An entitled jerk demands that I give a photo shoot for free, despite the fact that this |
| 0:04.7 | would normally cost me $900 and after trying to negotiate a higher price, just so I can |
| 0:10.6 | get my money's worth. |
| 0:12.1 | This entitled jerk freaks out on me and calls me some terrible names. |
| 0:16.1 | Here's what happened. |
| 0:17.1 | So I'm an amateur photographer that photographs events for a couple hundred bucks since I still |
| 0:21.9 | am a student. |
| 0:22.9 | One of my friends suggested a person who was looking for a photographer for his sister's |
| 0:27.6 | baby shower in Austin, Texas, which is about 4 and a half hours away from me. |
| 0:31.8 | I contacted this guy, we'll call him Jack, that's not his real name, asking if he was |
| 0:36.0 | still looking for a photographer. |
| 0:37.7 | He said yes and asked me for a quote, I said I usually charge $100 an hour, with about |
| 0:42.6 | 20 to 25 pictures an hour, along with edits, but since it would be a 6 hour event, with |
| 0:47.9 | several dance performances, skits and games, a 9 hour drive 2 and from this event, plus |
| 0:53.3 | accommodations, since it will be pretty late to drive back, and the fact that he needs |
| 0:57.6 | a videographer along with me as a photographer, as he doesn't want me to go back and forth, |
| 1:02.3 | I ended up asking for about 150 an hour. |
| 1:05.0 | So the grand total for this event would be about $900, and this would include everything |
| 1:09.3 | that I mentioned above. |
| 1:10.6 | He asked me if I was a professional photographer, and I told him not exactly, but I have been |
| 1:15.0 | doing this for 6 years, and I am pretty good at editing pictures. |
| 1:18.4 | I sent him my portfolio of both raw and edited pictures, which takes by the way a minimum |
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