- Jan 20, 2015
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In planning our 30th Anniversary celebration, I found a Black female photographer on Thumbtack.
We set up the shoot for Friday, Sept 29 at 3:30pm in downtown Atlanta. She sent me pictures of her studio which looked very nice.
We had other plans after the photo shoot, also in downtown Atlanta.
I received a call from the photographer at 11pm on Thursday, the night before the shoot, saying she had a family emergency and could not do the 3:30 shoot. Asked if we could move the time up to 2pm.
I was literally speechless. The plans were set. We had dinner plans after the shoot for 6pm with another couple.
I’m thinking about all this and can’t respond, What do you say when a so-called Black Business owner does this. I asked her to hold on while I spoke with my spouse.
He was a lot upset and said just cancel and tell her to return the deposit.
I tell her this, and she says, OK, well do the shoot. But I can’t do the shoot in Atlanta.
We can do the shoot in Conyers. I couldn’t speak. Didn’t know what to say. Didn’t know where Conyers was.
This person is changing all my plans.
This convo is taking place via text messages.
I stop texting to talk to my spouse.
We agreed to the 2:00 shoot and said we’ll have a good time anyway.
The shoot was horrible. She kept having us walk in front and she was taking pics of our backs. My husband and I are suspicious of this and talking among ourselves that she doesn’t have film in that camera. She must have pretended to be taking pictures by staying behind us.
It was totally ridiculous.
The shoot ends. We pay the balance and she say we should receive the pics in 3 days.
She emails the photos. All 17 photos.
I select 2 photos. The rest are horriable. And I tell her so.
3 days later when I go to get the 2 pics printed, I’m told the photos are copyrighted and the cannot be printed and sold back to me without the photographers permission.
It go’s further downhill from there.
I tell her I can’t print the photos without her permission. She text me back to say she gave me my photos and stop texting her!!! She is quite insane.
I contact Thumbtack. They say they will look into the issue.
She’s still not responding, so I call the police and tell them the photographer has my money and photos and refuses to to return the money or the photos.
The police officer told me to send her a 10 day letter to return the money or photos within 10 days or a warrant will be issued for her arrest.
I send the letter to her thru text and email.
She was angry, and texted me, finally, to curse me out for “threatening her”.
She tells me I’m blocked, and stop messaging her.
I text back (I hate texting) I will be texting you until I receive hard copies of my photos, and it’s not a threat. The police said if it’s not resolved in 10 days they will take the report over the phone. A warrant will be issued for your arrest.
After 2+weeks, I finally got the photos.
Why, why, why can’t we do business with each other.
I’m more upset because she is a Black female business person that I wanted to do business with, and she did not know how to do business.
She’s got some surprises waiting on her.
I reported her lack of business ethics in a complaint to the BBB, Contacted Conyers County to see if she had a business license. She does not. Told them what was going on. The took all the information.
Gave a HORRIBLE rating on Thumbtack.
What should have started and ended in one day, lasted nearly 3 weeks.
STILL SHOPPING BLACK.
We set up the shoot for Friday, Sept 29 at 3:30pm in downtown Atlanta. She sent me pictures of her studio which looked very nice.
We had other plans after the photo shoot, also in downtown Atlanta.
I received a call from the photographer at 11pm on Thursday, the night before the shoot, saying she had a family emergency and could not do the 3:30 shoot. Asked if we could move the time up to 2pm.
I was literally speechless. The plans were set. We had dinner plans after the shoot for 6pm with another couple.
I’m thinking about all this and can’t respond, What do you say when a so-called Black Business owner does this. I asked her to hold on while I spoke with my spouse.
He was a lot upset and said just cancel and tell her to return the deposit.
I tell her this, and she says, OK, well do the shoot. But I can’t do the shoot in Atlanta.
We can do the shoot in Conyers. I couldn’t speak. Didn’t know what to say. Didn’t know where Conyers was.
This person is changing all my plans.
This convo is taking place via text messages.
I stop texting to talk to my spouse.
We agreed to the 2:00 shoot and said we’ll have a good time anyway.
The shoot was horrible. She kept having us walk in front and she was taking pics of our backs. My husband and I are suspicious of this and talking among ourselves that she doesn’t have film in that camera. She must have pretended to be taking pictures by staying behind us.
It was totally ridiculous.
The shoot ends. We pay the balance and she say we should receive the pics in 3 days.
She emails the photos. All 17 photos.
I select 2 photos. The rest are horriable. And I tell her so.
3 days later when I go to get the 2 pics printed, I’m told the photos are copyrighted and the cannot be printed and sold back to me without the photographers permission.
It go’s further downhill from there.
I tell her I can’t print the photos without her permission. She text me back to say she gave me my photos and stop texting her!!! She is quite insane.
I contact Thumbtack. They say they will look into the issue.
She’s still not responding, so I call the police and tell them the photographer has my money and photos and refuses to to return the money or the photos.
The police officer told me to send her a 10 day letter to return the money or photos within 10 days or a warrant will be issued for her arrest.
I send the letter to her thru text and email.
She was angry, and texted me, finally, to curse me out for “threatening her”.
She tells me I’m blocked, and stop messaging her.
I text back (I hate texting) I will be texting you until I receive hard copies of my photos, and it’s not a threat. The police said if it’s not resolved in 10 days they will take the report over the phone. A warrant will be issued for your arrest.
After 2+weeks, I finally got the photos.
Why, why, why can’t we do business with each other.
I’m more upset because she is a Black female business person that I wanted to do business with, and she did not know how to do business.
She’s got some surprises waiting on her.
I reported her lack of business ethics in a complaint to the BBB, Contacted Conyers County to see if she had a business license. She does not. Told them what was going on. The took all the information.
Gave a HORRIBLE rating on Thumbtack.
What should have started and ended in one day, lasted nearly 3 weeks.
STILL SHOPPING BLACK.