Price Wars
Oh conundrum! Referrals are supposed to be a good thing, ain’t it? So why am I stuck in the middle of two of my clients playing tug of war with the price that I supposedly should be the one giving?
Let’s slow down a minute… Client A was my client few weeks back. She completely fell in love with the pictures! In her utmost joy she referred us to a friend of hers, Client B. So we do a shoot for Client B. She loved it too! Now, Client A found out how low our charge was for the shoot (it was a 2-day shoot, bytheway). And upon finding out the measly price of the 2-day shoot, she started calling us and rattling on and on about how we should’ve been paid more and how she’s going to tell Client B to pay more when in truth, we, the photographers, are more than perfectly OK with the charge we did. There mightve a miscommunication with the price before the actual shoot but nonetheless, we were already paid and as far as we are concerned, its the end of the transaction. No additions, no refunds. With what Client A is doing, unnecessary attention is therefore shun onto this rather impertinent matter! And the worse part is, we’re the ones in the middle, seeming victims of this little triteful argument. To seal the thing off, we just told Client B that we do charge more but we gave her a pretty good discount on the service we rendered and just told her to keep her mouth zipped about the matter. We aren’t really on the losing end you see? Maybe thats why such a fuss is trivial to me. We have printing coupons on the photo printing, but of course, quality is not sacrificed. There is such a thing as our pride in our work, you know?
So anyway, before someone pulls somebody else’s hair, I hope this thing mulls over. Not a good thing to be in between two hot swords.

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