Photo-machine rip-off

[LotusOmega375D]

Just popped out to get a couple of photos done for a Visa application. I need the 50mm x 50mm ones. I was staggered to discover the price for this: 7 quid for 4 identical photos on 1 sheet of paper!

Needless to say they can shove it and I'll take and print them myself for peanuts.

In today's digital age, I can't see those machines being around for much longer at that sort of price level.

[LilCat]

LotusOmega375D said:

Just popped out to get a couple of photos done for a Visa application. I need the 50mm x 50mm ones. I was staggered to discover the price for this: 7 quid for 4 identical photos on 1 sheet of paper!

Needless to say they can shove it and I'll take and print them myself for peanuts.

In today's digital age, I can't see those machines being around for much longer at that sort of price level.

That is a rip off!
In Hong Kong I paid 10HKD (approx 90p) for a set.

[RedWhiteMonkey]

LilCat said:

LotusOmega375D said:

Just popped out to get a couple of photos done for a Visa application. I need the 50mm x 50mm ones. I was staggered to discover the price for this: 7 quid for 4 identical photos on 1 sheet of paper!

Needless to say they can shove it and I'll take and print them myself for peanuts.

In today's digital age, I can't see those machines being around for much longer at that sort of price level.

That is a rip off!
In Hong Kong I paid 10HKD (approx 90p) for a set.

Unfortunately I can't find a return flight from the UK to Hong Kong for £6.10.

[Robatr0n]

I think the point was that they can cost and should be bought for peanuts, not that he should fly to HK.

[Deva Link]

RedWhiteMonkey said:

Unfortunately I can't find a return flight from the UK to Hong Kong for £6.10.

They'll email them to you if you send a picture of yourself.

[RedWhiteMonkey]

Robatr0n said:

I think the point was that they can cost and should be bought for peanuts, not that he should fly to HK.

[Robatr0n]

Yeah.....No.

No.

[LuS1fer]

You can upload pics to a dedicated passport photo site on the net. I did this after 3 goes at trying to get booth photos of a crying 2 year old all of which were uselss and wasted £12 of my hard-earned....

[AndyACB]

LilCat said:

That is a rip off!
In Hong Kong I paid 10HKD (approx 90p) for a set.

Are they the ones that fade after a year meaning you need to get a new passport at £90??

90p? How the hell do they make a profit running a machine that does it for 90p.

[Robatr0n]

AndyACB said:

LilCat said:

That is a rip off!
In Hong Kong I paid 10HKD (approx 90p) for a set.

Are they the ones that fade after a year meaning you need to get a new passport at £90??

90p? How the hell do they make a profit running a machine that does it for 90p.

They're basically the same as the ones you get over here. Everything is just much cheaper there, breakfast for 30p was nice!

Incidentally LilCat can fly to Hong Kong, buy her Passport photos and then fly home for less than £7.

[AndyACB]

Robatr0n said:

They're basically the same as the ones you get over here. Everything is just much cheaper there, breakfast for 30p was nice!

Incidentally LilCat can fly to Hong Kong, buy her Passport photos and then fly home for less than £7.

Was breakfast a bowl of fresh crickets?

I'm coming over, quite fancy a new 911 - how much are they?

[Robatr0n]

Well yeah, except cars.

I'm not sure if it's true but I've heard that they basically pay 100% tax on cars. The amount of Phantoms, new Ferraris, Astons, etc.. was mind blowing.

There's obviously quite a few wealthy folk in HK!

[Gareth79]

All the photo machines I've used in recent years have had a display instead of a mirror, and a face outline that you line up with. You can take as many pictures as you like until you get one that is perfect, then print and send it off.

Interestingly in Sydney it's nearly always done by people in post offices and other places, I eventually looked at Photo-Me's website and found a booth (the digital sort even) in a shopping centre, but there were very very few at the time.

[davepoth]

I've given up with photo booths. There's a chemist shop in Bath where they take the photos by hand - and they guarantee that the photos will be right for passports and the like. If they get rejected they retake the photos for free.

[Deva Link]

Gareth79 said:

All the photo machines I've used in recent years have had a display instead of a mirror, and a face outline that you line up with. You can take as many pictures as you like until you get one that is perfect, then print and send it off.

"All" - How many photo machines have you used?

Gareth79 said:

Interestingly in Sydney it's nearly always done by people in post offices and other places, I eventually looked at Photo-Me's website and found a booth (the digital sort even) in a shopping centre, but there were very very few at the time.

Why couldn't you use the post office too? You've got some sort of photo-booth thing going on, haven't you?