Ok, I just finished up with one moonbat obnoxious client. I\'m REALLY ready to be done with them for just a little while. Out of all of our clients this last year only one really annoyed the heck out of me, but I just finished with her today and I\'m VERY happy to be finished!
With that said: I have a lady who is interested in booking us. However, she seems flaky and moonbatish and I\'m going to have to go with gut instinct on this one and say \"I don\'t need any more drama\". I want to be finished with her without potentially hurting my reputation and without her realizing I\'m shrugging her off because I get a bad vibe. Her most recent e-mail to me is that she doesn\'t want to pay the deposit until we meet and she can\'t do so until Feb. Well obviously I won\'t hold the date for her for that long or even close to it. She said she is worried I\'m a potential scammer and that maybe the pictures on my website weren\'t mine. I can understand that attitude and if I was finding a photographer I would have similar concerns. Then again, I would do a little bit of research and would never tell the photographer of my concerns. A little googling, and a whois lookup and it should be obvious that I am who I say I am. The part that sketches me out is that in her e-mail before that she asked how she should put down a deposit. I don\'t like wishy washy crap and that\'s what this is. If she did this now I\'ll have to deal with this level of stupid from here on out with her if I let her book me.
I\'m worried that if I give her references she will think I\'m just faking e-mails or even phone calls...I don\'t want to underestimate her paranoia here. I\'m worried that if I tell her I booked the date and she is SOL she will take that as a confirmation that she unearthed me for the scammer she suspected. Then, she\'ll run to The Knot and I\'ll have even more retarded drama to deal with. I\'m worried that if I tell her \"I just don\'t think we are the right fit for each other\" she will do the exact same thing. I could let a week or two pass and THEN tell her the date was booked, but that seems like a silly way of dealing with the situation.
How would you rid yourselves of this drama llama?
Jan 04, 2009 at 01:03 AM
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