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maxgphoto wrote:
Dear Mike, is the hourly rate you quoted us negotiable?
My response after the 13th email exchange with this potential client....
My name is Max, for the price of $xxx an hour you receive my photography services which I spent four years of college honing and $150,000 in education costs. I bring two cameras that cost $1,800 each, auxiliary lights costing $600 and wireless triggers for those lights that cost $100 each, I have four. Plus my lenses which range from $500 to $1,500 dollars each, I have four of them as well. After I shoot the event for two hours, I generally spend another six hours editing the photo's and using software that costs $750. So, my rates are not negotiable.
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I understand you're frustrated over this, but if you really sent that email then you are not a professional or your head is so far up your ass that you enormous ego spoke when not spoken to. If I were the client I would have replied as follows.
Dear Jerk,
I will be sure to let everyone know how egotistic and assholishtic you are. A simple, no my rates are not negotiable would have been enough and we would have booked you anyways. It doesn't hurt to ask, but in this case it did hurt you that we asked. You will not be getting our business and I wish you luck with your over paying of school and lack of personal skills.
Good Day!
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