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BAH!!!! Horrible experience today at Walgreens.

I brought my camera there, still loaded with film to have developed. This has all kinds of pictures on it that I really wanted - including a bunch I took today of a plane I am looking into buying. This dude at the counter grabs my camera and looks at it.

I say "careful, I haven't rewound the film yet."

"No problem," he says, and proceeds to open the camera right there, exposing the entire roll of film.

I snatch the camera away and spout some mean things to him, and he gets offended. Then he picks the camera up off the counter again, and OPENS THE CAMERA AGAIN!

I freak out, and tell him to get me his manager. His manager simply apologizes and tells me they'll develop the film to see if anything comes out. If not - they'll give me a free roll of film.

I know they can't really compensate me, and I don't really expect it, since there's no way to bring the pictures back, but what ****es me off is that the kid that did it never even thought he did anything wrong. HOW THE HELL DID HE GET A JOB AT A PHOTO COUNTER????

ARGH! They apologized, which is really all they can do, and I'm happy they did that. But this still infuriates me. Guess it'll teach me a lesson to get my film developed at a place that specializes in cheap underwear and school supplies.
 
NickDBrennan said:
BAH!!!! Horrible experience today at Walgreens.

I brought my camera there, still loaded with film to have developed. This has all kinds of pictures on it that I really wanted - including a bunch I took today of a plane I am looking into buying. This dude at the counter grabs my camera and looks at it.

I say "careful, I haven't rewound the film yet."

"No problem," he says, and proceeds to open the camera right there, exposing the entire roll of film.

I snatch the camera away and spout some mean things to him, and he gets offended. Then he picks the camera up off the counter again, and OPENS THE CAMERA AGAIN!

I freak out, and tell him to get me his manager. His manager simply apologizes and tells me they'll develop the film to see if anything comes out. If not - they'll give me a free roll of film.

I know they can't really compensate me, and I don't really expect it, since there's no way to bring the pictures back, but what ****es me off is that the kid that did it never even thought he did anything wrong. HOW THE HELL DID HE GET A JOB AT A PHOTO COUNTER????

ARGH! They apologized, which is really all they can do, and I'm happy they did that. But this still infuriates me. Guess it'll teach me a lesson to get my film developed at a place that specializes in cheap underwear and school supplies.
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And you were expecting rational thought from people who only know that you put the film in here, take the pictures out there and then collect the money? That's silly!

I had an experience of my own today at none other than the local WallGreen's. The sign at the photo counter said that they can turn film into digital so I thought I'd ask what sort of resolution / pixel count I could expect. I got blank stares back. We had some short conversation about it after which I had the distinct impression that they had no bloody idea what I was talking about. Again, talking to people who only know you put the film in here, take the pictures out there and then collect the money.

By the way, I've been getting my prescriptions filled at Wallgreen's because it's really the only convenient place to get in and out of near my home. I had to threaten to report them to the state licensing commission because they were consistently shorting me and my spouse on our meds, on average about 10%. Always short, never too many. Gee, I wonder why that is.

Jeannie
 
NickDBrennan said:
BAH!!!! Horrible experience today at Walgreens.

I brought my camera there, still loaded with film to have developed. This has all kinds of pictures on it that I really wanted - including a bunch I took today of a plane I am looking into buying. This dude at the counter grabs my camera and looks at it.

I say "careful, I haven't rewound the film yet."

"No problem," he says, and proceeds to open the camera right there, exposing the entire roll of film.

I snatch the camera away and spout some mean things to him, and he gets offended. Then he picks the camera up off the counter again, and OPENS THE CAMERA AGAIN!

I freak out, and tell him to get me his manager. His manager simply apologizes and tells me they'll develop the film to see if anything comes out. If not - they'll give me a free roll of film.

I know they can't really compensate me, and I don't really expect it, since there's no way to bring the pictures back, but what ****es me off is that the kid that did it never even thought he did anything wrong. HOW THE HELL DID HE GET A JOB AT A PHOTO COUNTER????

ARGH! They apologized, which is really all they can do, and I'm happy they did that. But this still infuriates me. Guess it'll teach me a lesson to get my film developed at a place that specializes in cheap underwear and school supplies.
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Bummer, glad I went digital.

But let this be a lesson to all who read if you want good expert service then you cannot go to the cheapest place. The reason Walgreen and places like this offer cheap service is that they employ people who will work for nothing, read morons. To get expert service you have to be willing to pay that person what their service is worth.

I
 
smigaldi said:
Bummer, glad I went digital.

But let this be a lesson to all who read if you want good expert service then you cannot go to the cheapest place. The reason Walgreen and places like this offer cheap service is that they employ people who will work for nothing, read morons. To get expert service you have to be willing to pay that person what their service is worth.

I
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The trouble is that the big outfits like WallGreen's get into these little niches, offer cheap prices and drive the experts out of business. It's getting really hard to find people who know what they are doing. Craftsmanship, for the most part, is dead or dying in this country.

I remember when one local drug store even got into the auto parts business.

Jeannie
 
OMG I hate to hear that from you guys. I love the Walgreens by my house. Its better than the CVS (Consistently Vacant Shelves) that never had the meds that I was looking for. But you better belive I will be counting my meds from now on.

I mainly take my pictures to Target and have them developed there, but they just changed from a Kodak picture kiosk to a Target picture kiosk, so we shall see what quality pictures I will get back. Yes I know, Nick, it bites to have kids like that behind the counter.
 
Maverick said:
The trouble is that the big outfits like WallGreen's get into these little niches, offer cheap prices and drive the experts out of business. It's getting really hard to find people who know what they are doing. Craftsmanship, for the most part, is dead or dying in this country.

I remember when one local drug store even got into the auto parts business.

Jeannie
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Ugh that is NOT good. I don't buy my meds from the auto part store, so why by auto parts at the drug store?
 
smigaldi said:
But let this be a lesson to all who read if you want good expert service then you cannot go to the cheapest place. The reason Walgreen and places like this offer cheap service is that they employ people who will work for nothing, read morons.
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Now, now, such blanket generalizations are dangerous. I had extremely good service from Diane at the Walgreens on Semoran Ave in SE Orlando. She'd even discuss lens optics, grain size of various brands/speeds etc. She knew cameras. I really missed that when I went digital. (Not that I'd go back under any circumstances.)

While I agree that morons are the rule, there are some wonderful exceptions out there.
 
NickDBrennan said:
BAH!!!! Horrible experience today at Walgreens.

I brought my camera there, still loaded with film to have developed. This has all kinds of pictures on it that I really wanted - including a bunch I took today of a plane I am looking into buying. This dude at the counter grabs my camera and looks at it.

I say "careful, I haven't rewound the film yet."

"No problem," he says, and proceeds to open the camera right there, exposing the entire roll of film.

I snatch the camera away and spout some mean things to him, and he gets offended. Then he picks the camera up off the counter again, and OPENS THE CAMERA AGAIN!

I freak out, and tell him to get me his manager. His manager simply apologizes and tells me they'll develop the film to see if anything comes out. If not - they'll give me a free roll of film.

I know they can't really compensate me, and I don't really expect it, since there's no way to bring the pictures back, but what ****es me off is that the kid that did it never even thought he did anything wrong. HOW THE HELL DID HE GET A JOB AT A PHOTO COUNTER????

ARGH! They apologized, which is really all they can do, and I'm happy they did that. But this still infuriates me. Guess it'll teach me a lesson to get my film developed at a place that specializes in cheap underwear and school supplies.
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Nick just nailed the reason why the Mom & Pop will always be able to operate while under the shadow of the dreaded big boxes. At least he wasn't pumping Jet A into your piston because it said 'Turbo' on the cowling. Oh yeah, what Jeannie said too.
 
This is exactly why I use the local pro-photo finisher. And I don't mean Ritz/Fox Photo, either.

BTW, folks like CVS and Walgreens will look at your pictures and turn you in to the authorities if they even suspect that something isn't kosher. Even if it's innocent.
 
BTW, folks like CVS and Walgreens will look at your pictures and turn you in to the authorities if they even suspect that something isn't kosher. Even if it's innocent.[/QUOTE]

RIGHT ON!!!!! There was a case of that at Walmart here in NC where a person took a picture of "kids in the bathtub" and they were arrested for child porn, :mad: just over an innocent photo.

I mean HELLO!!!!! Almost everyone has pictures of kids in the bathtub playing as little kids, and I mean, tots, nothing over 3 or 4 years old.
 
NickDBrennan said:
I say "careful, I haven't rewound the film yet."

"No problem," he says, and proceeds to open the camera right there, exposing the entire roll of film.
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This is why I never let the line guy tow my airplane.....
"must resist hand of death....".....Dilbert.
 
Why did you give him the camera anyway? No way am I letting some minimum wage dweeb touch my stuff like that.

Digital is the way to go. Online print processing at several good vendors. Mpix will even color adjust for you if you would like.
 
update: I got the film back. Of the 27 exposures, 11 turned out, kind of. Each one of them has crazy ghosting effects and a lot of over exposure.

The most important pictures are viewable tho - pictures of my niece and me both freshly shaven. At least I kind of have that.
 
Brian Austin said:
Why did you give him the camera anyway? No way am I letting some minimum wage dweeb touch my stuff like that.

Digital is the way to go. Online print processing at several good vendors. Mpix will even color adjust for you if you would like.
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I can't remember the last time I used my Canon AE-1. Digital is so much easier. I know that film has its place and I appreciate the quality associated with it but for my purposes digital is the way to go.
 
I had a similar experience at a Rite Aid a few years ago. My wife took a roll of pictures at my sons last 8th grade football game. When I went to pick up the pictures the clerk informed me they had a little accident with my film and they had destroyed all the pictures. The manager offered the free roll of film. I told him what he could do with the free film and left. Have not been back.
 
Nick:

Sorry for your horrible experience. I'm glad some of your exposures were...uhm...recognizable at least and you have the ones of yourself and your niece.

Hopefully this won't happen to you again.

terry
 
Next time unload the camera before you go in, and hand them the roll of film.
 
Advice from some photography book I read a long time ago, probably on how to shoot wedding shots...shoot the same shots on at least two different rolls of film (this is one reason pro photographers have two cameras)...have the identical rolls developed independently.

Len
 
Maverick said:
The trouble is that the big outfits like WallGreen's get into these little niches, offer cheap prices and drive the experts out of business. It's getting really hard to find people who know what they are doing. Craftsmanship, for the most part, is dead or dying in this country.
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Yep, the last two local camera store/ film labs went out of business in the last year. I'm sure victims of the web for gear and big boxes/chains on the processing end.

Is Craftmanship dying or are we killing it by refusing to pay for quality and service?
 
ejensen said:
Is Craftmanship dying or are we killing it by refusing to pay for quality and service?
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Bingo.

Most consumers don't recognize the difference between a higher quality item and its cheaper counterpart. Case in point: furniture, which I'm fairly familiar with since I build it in my (somewhat lacking) off time. Most consumers head to the local warehouse type furniture outlet with the hard sell tactics. They don't look at the joinery, hardware, wood quality, etc., because they don't educate themselves. It lasts ten to fifteen years through a few moves and gets sold, donated or tossed. Rarely is it looking as good or stays as 'tight' as the better quality furniture.

I've built furniture that will be handed down to children's children if they keep it in the family. Others around the country do the same. Slowly but surely, that consumer base is starting to recognize higher quality furniture. HGTV and DIY networks have actually helped in that respect.

The consumer wants better stuff for less money but isn't recognizing the tradeoffs. Walmart, Walgreens and their competitors offer cheap stuff that LOOKS as good as the expensive stuff. Nine times out of ten, you'll get a very similar product from a photo finishing place as Walgreens. It's #10 that makes the difference, though.
 
Brian Austin said:
Bingo.

Most consumers don't recognize the difference between a higher quality item and its cheaper counterpart. Case in point: furniture, which I'm fairly familiar with since I build it in my (somewhat lacking) off time. Most consumers head to the local warehouse type furniture outlet with the hard sell tactics. They don't look at the joinery, hardware, wood quality, etc., because they don't educate themselves.
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Dovetailed drawers, good hardware, minimal venier (which is getting really hard to find, everything is veniered today.) Won't find this at the furniture warehouses.
 
Anthony said:
Dovetailed drawers, good hardware, minimal venier (which is getting really hard to find, everything is veniered today.) Won't find this at the furniture warehouses.
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Not only dovetailed drawers but how tight is the joint? Mass produced dovetails are a lousy fit. Run your fingers over them. If a fingernail catches on the joint line, it's not good enough. There will be a little discrepancy due to wood movement but you shouldn't see any gaps.

Veneer isn't necessarily a bad thing but most commissioned or small shop pieces won't do it. The underlying wood is usually MDF (medium density fiberboard) or particle board. Get it wet and it's ruined as the particles swell with the moisture intake. No sanding and refinishing or fixing possible. The 'artsy' stuff will use veneers, especially on curved pieces. Personally, I haven't played with it at all. I might try it sometime, just to experiment.

Finishing in a production line is usually just a lacquer spray finish to make it shiny and smooth. Blah. Good finishing will take a week or so as each step cures. Sanding is the key to a good finish. That takes me the most time because after machine sanding, I finish it by hand, matching grain direction to avoid the scratch marks. Tedious but it shows in the end.
 
NickDBrennan said:
update: I got the film back. Of the 27 exposures, 11 turned out, kind of. Each one of them has crazy ghosting effects and a lot of over exposure.

The most important pictures are viewable tho - pictures of my niece and me both freshly shaven. At least I kind of have that.
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Nick, if you do a google search for "photo restoration" you'll get lots of sites of folks who can bring damaged images back to life. It is in fact what I do for a living. Email me if you would like me to try to recover an image for you.
 
Brian, I could talk making fine furniture all day long. It is a very pleasant advocation for me, every since HS. But if you really want a fine finish, ixnay the sanding and start scraping. It produces such a deep lustre you'd think you could dive into it. I have about 40 different scrapers of different profiles. Most were hand made for a specific project. It is with a deft touch that you control what 'grit' you want. Another benefit is scrapers allow you the opportunity to practice the correct techniques for keeping your tools sharp.

They laugh at me when I insist on hand cutting my pins and tails but my joints stay tight. And those little inadvertent nicks with the back saw along the faint pencil'd layout line? Those add real value because they are indicative to the care that went into the piece. The knowledgeable buyer recognizes and appreciates that. I use a .56 mechanical pencil for all layouts.
 
Frank Browne said:
Nick, if you do a google search for "photo restoration" you'll get lots of sites of folks who can bring damaged images back to life. It is in fact what I do for a living. Email me if you would like me to try to recover an image for you.
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I don't know if its possible. Looking at the negatives, most of the pictures are just white. The ones that are damaged could be fixed I think, but the majority of the pics are all white.
 
NickDBrennan said:
I don't know if its possible. Looking at the negatives, most of the pictures are just white. The ones that are damaged could be fixed I think, but the majority of the pics are all white.
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Can't do anything about the ones totally gone, but the ones where you have an image but with some damage can probably be repaired.
 
ejensen said:
Yep, the last two local camera store/ film labs went out of business in the last year. I'm sure victims of the web for gear and big boxes/chains on the processing end.

Is Craftmanship dying or are we killing it by refusing to pay for quality and service?
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It's both.

The rise of the ease of use with digital, coupled with kiosk oriented printing solutions, makes people think "Why?" when they think of their local photo professional.

As Harley can attest, there are few quality photo shops left. Lots are "I bought a Norijitsu or a Fuji autoprocessor and I sell 1325432535 different picture frames", very few are committed dip-and-dunk or hand processed lines that go after Kodak and Fuji process line certifcation.

People also accept lower quality, because it is "easy". Example - one of my friends has pictures of his son on his desk, at his first baseball game. He took the shots with a Canon S200 (2MP camera) and has it printed on cheapo HP photo paper. When he's 80, where will that photo be? Nothing like the slides and pics my grandfather saved from when my mom was a kid, that's for sure.

Cost does play a large part in it. All of my E-6 (slide) and black-and-white goes to a professional lab in Boston that uses an entire dip-dunk and handroll (for B+W) process. Yes, I pay just about $20 for a roll of film to be developed, and another $15 for a contact sheet of B+W. But you know what? They have yet to destroy a roll of my film, no dust marks / inclusions from dirty machines, and they are consumate professionals who I can work with on particular rolls (push/pull a stop, use a toner in the printing, dodge / burn here). I one time did some digital enlargements to spec out how I was going to ilfochrome a particular picture; the first one was way too tonal and I needed it washed out a bit - so the guy threw the 7 test runs he did in at no charge. $25 worth of stuff, free, but he wanted to do it Right and show me the options I had. He still gets all my business (in fact, they have about 70 rolls of film, a bunch from a wedding and some from a weekend in Maine).

I'll also note that some photo shops have a brutal reputation as being arrogant. Case in point, a large Hasselblad dealer lost my business when I went in looking for a pentax flash (a 360), and the counter guy treated me like a total moron. Just because I don't shoot a 'blad doesn't mean I'm an idiot, and I won't give him my business. This doesn't help, because I *do* tell people to avoid him like the plauge.

Nick, I'm sorry to hear of your photographic loss. My most priceless roll of film, ever (Christmas before Jessie's grandmother died, I shot 2 rolls of B+W, photojournalist style) was destroyed by a ****head clerk at a local "photo" place [Vermont Color]. Nothing in restitution but a "I can get you a coupon for free developing!", kid avoided me when I came back in by going out the back door (I saw him on the street smoking as I left). One of the few times I could have either cried or broken someones nose at the same time. Avoid the local nondedicated shops, go to a place where the talent is there and the quality is there. Yes, it costs more, but you get a FAR better product (and nights sleep!) in the end.

Cheers,

-Andrew
 
astanley said:
My most priceless roll of film, ever (Christmas before Jessie's grandmother died, I shot 2 rolls of B+W, photojournalist style) was destroyed by a ****head clerk at a local "photo" place [Vermont Color]. Nothing in restitution but a "I can get you a coupon for free developing!", kid avoided me when I came back in by going out the back door (I saw him on the street smoking as I left). One of the few times I could have either cried or broken someone's nose at the same time. Avoid the local nondedicated shops, go to a place where the talent is there and the quality is there. Yes, it costs more, but you get a FAR better product (and nights sleep!) in the end.

Cheers,

-Andrew
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WOW I would be REALLY mad. I would say if the pictures are important...go to a professional photo place. However, things can still go wrong. A local pro photo shop lost 5 out of 7 roles of film from a wedding a number of years ago. I can't even imagine what the wedding photog had to say to the bride...um I have a few pictures of you with cake all over your face and some of you so drunk you were kissing the best man but that's about it...

That's one good thing about digital. If you take the proper precautions (backups) you do not have to worry about the lab losing your pictures...you LOST my cd, that's going to cost me $0.15 to replace:eek: ...
 
Iceman said:
However, things can still go wrong. A local pro photo shop lost 5 out of 7 roles of film from a wedding a number of years ago.
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I had a friend who ran a photo lab once upon a time that did a lot of black and white work. Once he hired a new tech. On her first morning, she loaded 8 rolls of film onto the spools, put them in the supertanker, and did something (the details escape me now) to ruin all 8 rolls. She didn't say a word, simply got her purse and coat, left out the back door and never came back.
 
Hey, Sisyphus. Push/pull, dodge/burn, I love it when you talk like that. Meow. I used to do a lot of developing including my own slides.

My worst case was when I dropped 11 rolls to a small shop I had used exclusively for the prior 3 years. They were great and willing to work with whatever I needed. Anyway, I dropped off the film as typical but they gave it to the new guy who claimed to be a graduate of Brooks in Santa Barbara. I didn't even know they had a new guy. Those rolls were the result of a 10 day hike into the Sierra Nevada at 1st snow.

Sheesh, the story I could tell. They made the standard offer of free film. I declined. They added free developing. I said maybe. Later, when I showed them the checks from the stock agencies for the few good exposures on those rolls they turned their backs to me saying I was too difficult. Huh? A loyal customer with a legit beef who has lost a lot of money due to their incompetence and I am no longer welcome? They probably thought I was going to sue for lost income.
 
Some of the opinions expressed here are why I've haven't been to a Walmart in almost five years. Everyone these days wants the cheapest price (OK, not EVERYONE, but MOST everyone). They care nothing about quality workmanship and/or have no clue how much time quality workmanship costs. We purchased a gorgeous Craftsman style dining room table about three years ago. Handmade in Montana. SOLID oak. The mechanism thingie that helps the table slide open to add leaves to it is metal, not plastic. There are strips of felt under the table in the place where you store the leaves so they don't get scratched. The chairs themsleves weigh a good 25 lbs each (the ones with the arms weigh a little more). I cannot move the table, sans leaves, by myself. This table will be around after my great-great grand children have died. And we paid several thousand dollars for it. To me, it is a work of art and worth every penny. An aquaintence of mine had seen it at the furniture shop about a month before we bought it. She was surpised that we purchased it and told me that I got ripped off and that no way in heck would she pay that kind of money for a table, when she could get something like it at the discount furniture store for about $5,000 less. And yes, she could afford it. But she cares nothing for quality, just for getting something for the cheapest price.
And same with the people that call pete for a price on a windshield. His quote might be $20-$30 more than the nationaly owned chain down the street, but I cannot tell you how many times, people have come to his shop after the first rain and said, "so and so installed this glass for me, but it leaks!" Gee, you may have saved $$ three weeks ago, but they won't stand behind their install and fix it for you, so now you have to pay me $25 to do it. Plus the inconvenince of having to be with out a car for an hour or two.

No, they just don't get it. And this country is paying the price for that. We want Walmart prices for eveything these days. Screw the quality, I want it cheap.

Ok, I'm done ranting now. Sorry, but this thread has hit a nerve. :)

Dee
 
DeeG said:
No, they just don't get it. And this country is paying the price for that. We want Walmart prices for eveything these days. Screw the quality, I want it cheap.
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Goes beyond that, Dee.

Look at Costco vs Sam's Club. Both are close in price. Costco treats its employees much, much better. Costco is now under fire from some Wall Street types complaining about the "excessive" employee benefits. I don't see those analysts giving up their benefits "for the shareholder".

Cheap begets cheap. Fortunately some - including some of the big chains like Costco and Nordstrom - still value customers and employees. Oh, wait, you're living in the Pacific Northwest, you know about those companies already. B)
 
BillG said:
Backed up on CD of course!
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Note going to do any good...CD media won't last that long and the equipment to read it will only be at the Smithsonian. Case in point...see any 8 tracks lately. I'm sure if I couldn't bare to part with my wonderful turntables which are collecting dust in the basement I wouldn't know where to go to play something recorded on vinyl.

I've got a ton of digital photos...my uncles pictures from when he was in the Navy scanned from original photos, my wife's family - at least 3 maybe 4 generations of stuff...my own pictures....my thought is to just keep migrating them from one PC to the next as I upgrade with CDs or DVDs as temporary backup only.

Len
 
wsuffa said:
Cheap begets cheap. Fortunately some - including some of the big chains like Costco and Nordstrom - still value customers and employees. Oh, wait, you're living in the Pacific Northwest, you know about those companies already. B)
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Bill, this is so true. For instance, several years ago I bought a pair of flat heeled leather sandals at Nordy's. I loved them so much I wore them almost every day. About two to three months after I bought them, I snagged one of the thin leather woven straps on the bottom corner of a screen door. I took the shoes back to N's, asking the gal if she knew where I could get them fixed. She takes the shoe from me and goes into the back room, and came out with a box with a brand new pair of shoes in them. She handed me the box with the new shoes in it. I said I didn't want to get a new pair, just get the old ones fixed. Nope. She said that she didn't expect me to buy the shoes, she was just exchanging the 'broken' pair for a new pair. I was stunned. But, that is typical of their CS. Nordstroms will ALWAYS have my business.

Dee
 
BillG said:
Backed up on CD of course!
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Bill, you know that CD media has a shelf life of about 30 years! :yes:

Digital stuff needs to be backed up one of two ways: on a long-term cold storage tape OR on archival quality paper (Fuji LightJet prints).

Cheers,

-Andrew
 
Yeah, yeah, I know - but I still plan on backing up my photos digitally one way or another... :)
 
Richard said:
Hey, Sisyphus. Push/pull, dodge/burn, I love it when you talk like that. Meow. I used to do a lot of developing including my own slides.
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I think you are only the 3rd or 4th person to notice the buddy icon. When I get a house (read: after I move out of the Boston area), I'll eventually set up my own home photo studio. For now, the pros get it.

My worst case was when I dropped 11 rolls to a small shop I had used exclusively for the prior 3 years. They were great and willing to work with whatever I needed. Anyway, I dropped off the film as typical but they gave it to the new guy who claimed to be a graduate of Brooks in Santa Barbara. I didn't even know they had a new guy. Those rolls were the result of a 10 day hike into the Sierra Nevada at 1st snow.

Sheesh, the story I could tell. They made the standard offer of free film. I declined. They added free developing. I said maybe. Later, when I showed them the checks from the stock agencies for the few good exposures on those rolls they turned their backs to me saying I was too difficult. Huh? A loyal customer with a legit beef who has lost a lot of money due to their incompetence and I am no longer welcome? They probably thought I was going to sue for lost income.
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11 rolls? Yeah, I would probably be serving 11 concurrent life terms in Cali...

I have had countless negs damaged by dirty processing lines. Dip and dunk is the only way!

Cheers,

-Andrew
 
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