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 p.1 #3 · Guidance on Pricing Photos | |
cwebster wrote:
Always ask too much, you can always negotiate down. You can't start low and negotiate up.
If a client balks at my first quote, I ask what their budget is and see where we can strike a deal. If the budget is ridiculously low, I'm not afraid to walk away.
<Chas>
Thanks Chas. I'm afraid the whole thing blew up in my face. We came to his bottom line via two statements I didn't find helpful. First he said they had plenty of images in their possession so weren't inclined to pay my asking price. I guess if they had so many fine images to choose from I don't quite understand their interest in my image. I guess they figured if they could lowball me, then fine and good. But the second comment really made little sense. When I'd been contacted by the seminary's graphics person it wasn't clear what image she was asking about, so I sent her five different images, four of which I'd taken on the campus. The person with whom I spoke this afternoon magnanimously offered to give me retroactive permission to sell photos I'd taken on private property and was legally unable to use. That struck me as less a generous offer than a swipe at me for having taken photos illegally on private property. I reminded him I'm an amateur who doesn't sell his work unless asked and I can imagine no one but the seminary being interested in photos I took of their grounds. I'm certainly not looking for a market for these photos.
The experience was sufficiently distasteful that I told him I simply couldn't accept his offer. So my gorgeous image will remain on my desktop occasionally and be shared with friends. Live and learn, I guess...
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