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Delorus Wed 16-Nov-22 12:09:51

A relative with 3 children has just received email with details of recent school photos.If she had one of each child then the 3 together the cost for 1 copy would be £70.Then within weeks they will be selling class photos.Why in this day and age are they so expensive I am sure £5 a photo x whole school and they would still make their profits.
News headlines of poverty,cost of living crisis etc how can parents pay these exorbitant costs ,as well-being as emotional upset of not being able to recall your child's school history.In this day of mobile phone photos children are snapped daily so why the unnecessary expense.I also hope that parents not on benefits are not being charged to compensate for those that are as with school trips and outings as most of those not on benefits are truely struggling keeping their financial heads above water.

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Callistemon21 Sun 20-Nov-22 15:04:48

There's one of me with classmates on the internet 😲
We must have had a photographer come into school to take informal photos.
No, I'm not uploading it 😀

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Maggiemaybe Sun 20-Nov-22 15:28:22

I haven’t any of my primary school group photos, and they’re the ones I’d like to see. Two of my schools were in small villages and only had 30 or so pupils in all - perhaps they weren’t worth the photographer’s while.

I’m about to update the DGS photos we have on display, and asked about the school ones. One school’s charging £20 for an 8 x 6, but at least it has two of them on. Another’s charging £15, but the boys were taken separately - parents had to take them in for a special Saturday session if they wanted a family photo. And the nursery ones weren’t up to much, apparently. It’s not going well!

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chris8888 Sun 20-Nov-22 15:34:27

Going to the local tip a few years ago we saw boxes of school photos just dumped in a skip.
Makes you a bit scared about what happens now to the ones not bought.

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Norah Sun 20-Nov-22 15:36:07

Ziplok

There is no obligation whatsoever for parents to buy school photos.

Indeed.

Truly no need for photo packets stuffed in store containers.

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paddyann54 Sun 20-Nov-22 15:40:58

CHRIS8888 Nothing should be printed that isn't ordered that cuts down waste ,thats because downloads are available a lot of .Photographers dont print on spec anymore ,it was very expensive to do as professional printing has always been more expensive than a high street lab

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Casdon Sun 20-Nov-22 17:03:47

paddyann54

CHRIS8888 Nothing should be printed that isn't ordered that cuts down waste ,thats because downloads are available a lot of .Photographers dont print on spec anymore ,it was very expensive to do as professional printing has always been more expensive than a high street lab

Professional photographers do cock up though, it was probably those in the skip. My son had professional photos taken at his graduation, but the photos that arrived weren’t him. It took ages, but eventually we sorted it out and received the correct ones - I presume the incorrect ones were disposed of?

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Callistemon21 Sun 20-Nov-22 17:52:09

Nearly as bad as the wrong school reports!

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BlueBelle Sun 20-Nov-22 18:17:02

I was very very limited fr money when the kids were at school but I always bought their school photos
But I think there is more taken now than then

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Casdon Sun 20-Nov-22 18:22:53

Callistemon21

Nearly as bad as the wrong school reports!

I know, he was actually quite upset because he thought they had completely lost his photo!

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