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Rob.Marsh

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Hi all,

I wanted a few prints on a quick turn around the other day so I popped into town to get them done.

Now, I had a choice of boots or an indipendant set up. I am all for supporting local buisness so I elected to give the indipendant guy a go.
He has some great prints up in the window and offers short turn round etc etc so all looked promising. I loaded the images I wanted onto an SD card and off I went.

To my surprise, he took one look at the SD card and said "I cant take those, CD or nothing as far as digital is concerned. If you want to print from that go to boots". I asked if he'd take a USB pen as I didn't want to burn a CD, and I got a no. :bonk:

Now, this really surprised me, as I would have thought that he'd be trying to compete with Boots who are only just down the road. He didn't seem bothered at all.

I would have thought in this age of digital photography, printers would try to offer the ability to take as many formats as possible. Especially if they want to compete with the big guns like boots, and all the online services.

Am I wrong in thinking this? Maybe I fell victim to a die hard film only printer/photographer.!! :shrug:
 
He may be a decent printer... (or maybe not), but he's not the best businessman in the world.
 
What a strange and narrow-minded view. That's another independent who will whinge about being unable to compete with the big boys when they go under.
 
mmcp42 said:
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Yep, I doubt he'll last long with that attitude, no matter how good his prints are. :nono: As an independent he should be offering top level customer service to retain his customer base. :bonk:
 
I can only imagine he has an old loyal customer base as he has been there since I can remember. Its a shame, as Id much rather see the local buisnesses stay alive in the town.
 
the local printers in my town will take pics from a pen drive, I've had 2 shots printed there on different occasions and he's a nice bloke, the only reason I don't use the internet for canvasses really
 
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