Jaackil Loc: Massachusetts

Thank you!!!
Yes that is true about schools they do have the right to require permission.

aellman Loc: Boston MA

Best answer yet. Great comeback!

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

Gone

DavidThompson Loc: Asheville, NC

I shot film photos of my kid’s soccer team and wife and l did not have to take a turn at being the team manager, or the treasurer or making arrangements for motels when traveling, deciding on group eating to maintain team morale, etc. That was prior to digital. If I got a “good” picture of a kid, I would give a 4”x6” to the family. There were instances where a family might be single parent, or a divorce or “hard times” and those of us who could would secretly finance small expenses for a kid. There were two reasons: 1- We didn’t want a kid to have to leave the team as a “victim of circumstances” or the kid was a skilled athlete and none of us wanted to lose him or, 2 - It just seemed like the thing to do. When we did have a professional photographer come to shoot the high school team and photoshopped an absent kid into the picture and had the high school as a backdrop, there was about a $15 charge for an 8x10 and again, “the high school coach” made shire that any kid unable to purchase a picture received one. Sometimes these efforts seemed totally morally appropriate and sometimes it was less clear and the hidden donner just accepted it.

Dickwood33 Loc: Alberta, Canada

E-mail her all of the above!

Jaackil Loc: Massachusetts

Not sure how that applies to the question at hand.

Dickwood33 Loc: Alberta, Canada

How to reply to the mother.

Jaackil Loc: Massachusetts

I should tell her how he shot film photos of his kids soccer games and how the coach made sure every kid got one?

BHC Loc: Strawberry Valley, JF, USA

You're close. Just tell her that the coach will pay for it and she needs to get the $15 from him first.

Jaackil Loc: Massachusetts

What? What are you smoking?

Stephan G

Passing the buck in reverse?

If anything should be stated to the woman, it should be this. "Ma'am, I put together a package deal for the whole team and followed through with it. I have been doing this for a while. Additional photograph copies are charged at a nominal fee to cover the costs. The original package belongs to the team, pro forma. I do not provide anything beyond that."

Stephan G

Everything stated in this thread is tangential to the original post. This includes your postings as well. Anecdotal comments are sincere attempts to flesh out those tangents. (QED.)

Logan1949

Thank you for asking. The cost for downloading the detailed picture is a 40% hockey-team discount off of the usual professional price; this helps to offset the cost of taking and printing the free pictures given to each team member. Who all did you want to send the pictures to?

[If you are face-to-face, smile with wide-eyed innocence as if you were really answering an honest question by someone who just really wanted to know the answer. "Thank you for asking." puts you on their side. "The cost . . . is a 40% ... discount" shows that the cost is a bargain. "helps to offset the cost..." Does not imply that it completely covers the cost or makes a profit. "...the free pictures given to each team member." Shows that they are helping to support the team. "Who all did you want to send the pictures to?" This keeps them engaged in the dialog, assumes they will pay, and should help them to realize that dividing $15 among many recipients will make each one cheaper.]

[Note: The word "Cost" is what the retailer has to pay to provide the goods or services. The word "Price" is what the retailer charges the customer including any profit for the retailer.]

Jaackil Loc: Massachusetts

Not really at all. There are no parallels nothing tangential at all other than a camera and a team. This is not a case of a person who can not afford the images. The coach shouldn’t have to pay for this image because the woman won’t. This is an entitled woman who thinks she is entitled to the image. But please feel free to draw this tangential lines for me. You did go off in a tangent though telling your own story which I still fail to see how it addresses the original question. The question was How To Respond. I do not see a response at all. You told a nice story about what you did but you did not answer the question.

Jaackil Loc: Massachusetts

This is pretty good. Not as good as the previously suggested “are you a communist?” 😀. But Definately more tactful! Thank you.