I'm in for a manic few weeks!!

Danthus · 17 Jul 2011 at 23:28

rG-tom said:
Rob, i'm a photographer. Is that 47% scaling? ie if the value is higher do they take less? i could cope with them taking say £25 of £70 as I'd hopefully be able to then sell more prints to at least 25% of the punters, but not too much more!

Check the link I posted!

Glaucus · 17 Jul 2011 at 23:30

OldCoals said:
Check the link I posted!

You can set limits, why people don't though :confused:

especially when they take such a huge cut, which I didn't realise.

Can also try

http://www.travelzoo.com/uk/sales/contact/

No idea if they are cheaper though.

rG-tom · 17 Jul 2011 at 23:33

OldCoals said:
Check the link I posted!

that was the photographer being utterly stupid there, offering FAR FAR too much for FAR FAR too little.

I'd be going down to say £70, so £35 in my pocket. Only a single print, no discs, very basic editing. I'd say 30 minutes of editing for an hour shoot, and say £10 of costs of printing and framing if buying in this kinda bulk, making a that just under £20 an hour for my time.

Then it hopefully AT LEAST 1 or 2 big print orders for every 5-10 sittings, with a profit for each print of about £80, and it should hopefully push some decent figures.

Would need some careful research though, which that photographer did NOT do.

Glaucus · 28 Aug 2011 at 22:34

So how have you got on robfosters? Or have you died of exhaustion.

The_Abyss · 28 Aug 2011 at 22:41

I'd be very wary about putting a business on Groupon. History seems to dictate that you'll soon be viewed as a discount retailer / service provider, and then people don't buy unless you have a deal on. Prezzo are a good example, only they've chosen to embrace the discount culture.

GreatAuk · 29 Aug 2011 at 00:58

Can't you phone them up and tell them to take the advert down? Anyway, good luck lol!

robfosters · 29 Aug 2011 at 02:16

AcidHell2 said:
So how have you got on robfosters? Or have you died of exhaustion.

Hello mate.

We're ploughing through them. Groupon extended the validity of the voucher to 9 months. The difficult is informing people that the voucher validity is for both parties. i.e meaning that we have 9 months as well as they do to fulfil bookings.

It's difficult though. The business is coming on leaps and bounds and it's getting hard to fit them in. We can do a 1 hour groupon job for £10 or with full paying customers, do 3 hours for £100. What's best for the business?

eXist · 29 Aug 2011 at 08:08

robfosters said:
Hello mate.

We're ploughing through them. Groupon extended the validity of the voucher to 9 months. The difficult is informing people that the voucher validity is for both parties. i.e meaning that we have 9 months as well as they do to fulfil bookings.

It's difficult though. The business is coming on leaps and bounds and it's getting hard to fit them in. We can do a 1 hour groupon job for £10 or with full paying customers, do 3 hours for £100. What's best for the business?

so now your going back on your groupon customers because you can make more out of regular customers.....nice business, its your own fault for pricing it so low

Dave M · 29 Aug 2011 at 08:31

Not the first small business owner I've heard with a Groupon tale of woe.

The business model works well for Groupon but needs a steady stream of naive small business owners. Doubtless there are ways of making it work for the business too but it isn't as straight forward as Groupon would like you to believe.

Hope you get some repeat business and it doesn't damage your reputation.

Glaucus · 29 Aug 2011 at 08:44

robfosters said:
. We can do a 1 hour groupon job for £10 or with full paying customers, do 3 hours for £100. What's best for the business?

, not a good move, you'll damage your reputation. No one likes being had on group on and they'll be very vocal. Really should have set a limit.
Keep ploughing on and hopefully it'll work out.