Are Venture Photography fooling their customers?

Scammed

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12 Jan 2011 - 2:19 AM

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Do NOT buy the "special" USD50 photo shoot with the free gift! Do NOT give this gift to people who are not rich! I gave one of these to a family as a gift BUT WAS NEVER TOLD THAT THE FRAMES & EXTRA PICTURES WOULD COST THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS TO THE RECIPIENT!

It is very embarrasing to people to be shown these nice photos and then have to be put on the spot with little kids begging for pictures which the family cannot afford. Close down these sleaze-bags!

photoman99

4 Feb 2012 - 6:20 PM

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Here is what Venure Photograpy won't tell you.
First they get you n with a "free photo session" and a "free 8x10". Well this much is true. You will get the one hour session for free and you will get a cheap (a quality statemnet - not price. read on) framed 8x10. But they won't tell you the prices up front. I will. All prices below are for framed photos.
simple desktop frame - 8x10 - $400, 5x7 - $300
Classic frame - 8x8 $600-$750, 12x12 - $1,200-1,350, 16x16 - R1500-$1650, 20x20 - $17,00-$1,900. They also do some really cool mosiic type framing and collections which run from $2,000 for five picutres in a sort of mosaic pattern to $6,000 for 9 larger picutures in a mosaid.

There are a lot more options but you get the picture so to speak. These guys are incredibly expensive. Sure the photographs are high quality, they do a good job of composition and the framing is pretty cool looking too. But even with all that these prices are at double or tripple what you would pay for a good photographer and top end framing job.

One more thing. You can't just buy the pictures and frame them yourself. You can only get thier frames. There is also no option to get the digital images. They will sell you a slideshow for $1,500 but these are not images that can be saved individually or used in any other way.

All in all nice pictures but I wouldn't waste my time here.

thewilliam

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4 Feb 2012 - 9:43 PM

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Venture is a "designer brand" and "designer" products rarely come cheap.