Kids School Photos

Nuclearvodka on 12/06/2018 - 10:59
Last edited 12/06/2018 - 17:39 by 1 other user

Hi Ozbargainers.

I just bought my daughter's first school photos, and I paid $90 AUD!
I mean WTF?!

Fair enough I didn't have to buy the whole package, (it's her first ever school pics, I didn't want to miss one single photo)

But in all seriousness, how the explicit can they charge us these prices?

the pack was $60 AUD + 30 AUD for the USB with 5 extra photo!

SERIOUSLY?

I know I'm a sucker for buying it, I should probably be kicked from this page, but I just had to.

What do you guys normally pay for your kids school pics?

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  Nugs on 12/06/2018 - 11:01

  +1

  yeah, we normally go for the class plus single largeish print. $38 for my oldest today.

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  Almost Banned on 12/06/2018 - 11:12

  +1

  Yep - school photos are one of the biggest rorts going today.
  If the ACCC isn't too busy hitting the banks and petrol companies with a soggy lettuce leaf they should look into that scam.

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    dasher86 on 13/06/2018 - 09:21

    what until you get to purchasing university certificates and framing…

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  Banana on 12/06/2018 - 11:18

  +2

  Never bought any school photos. They were ~$50 back in my days. I kept the tiny little sample photos they gave every year though. I was an Ozb from young.

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  Melb69 on 12/06/2018 - 11:22

  +1

  Get the class picture and the 1 portrait 1. Scan them and print off for friends and family.

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  ShortyX on 12/06/2018 - 11:31

  +2

  https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/306767

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  HighAndDry on 12/06/2018 - 11:50

  it's her first ever school pics, I didn't want to miss one single photo

  I'm pretty sure they only take 2 photos: Group + individual portrait. All the others are just different sized reprints of these two…

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    Nuclearvodka on 12/06/2018 - 12:04

    +1

    I'll check, but we were told their were 5 "different" photos

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  chumlee on 12/06/2018 - 12:08

  +2

  Better to complain about school photos than police mug shot

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    Nuclearvodka on 12/06/2018 - 12:17

    +4

    Don't know what you're talking about, I look great on mine

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      HighAndDry on 12/06/2018 - 17:32

      +1

      AND they're free!

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        Nuclearvodka on 13/06/2018 - 10:14

        It depends, the ones driving ca be quite expensive

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  oscargamer on 12/06/2018 - 17:29

  We pay about $45 / yr for school photos and downloadable good quality image

  Do you have other options rather than the $90 one?

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  chichi on 13/06/2018 - 09:33

  I haven't bought a single school photo since the kids were very young (they are now year 9 and 12). I do have a nice collection of the free photo bookmarks they send out after the first print of photos are distributed.
  They use the portrait photos for the kids profiles (on the school site) and I'm always glad I never paid to have a print copy. My boys are pretty photogenic usually but for some reason their school photo always looks like a mug shot. My eldest looks like a serial killer in his last one.

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  Danstar on 31/07/2018 - 07:58

  The prices at my kids school are way over the top too.

  For just a class room photo is about $45 with nothing else. And it's not even a "whole class shot"

  It's just portrait shots of each kid from the class in a separate box.