Yep! I experienced the same thing. The sample prints are impressive tho.
> them about 3 years ago or so...and for over a year
> and a half, even
> though I told them I was not interested, I got weekly phone
> calls and
> also emails about every 4 days or so. I kept telling them I
> wasn't
> interested...and they just kept calling. Finally the woman
> who was
> calling me must have changed jobs or position within the
> company, and a
> man started calling. After about 3 months, he finally
> stopped. Oh, and
> there's always a promotion of some sort that "is just about
> to end, you
> MUST sign up today!"
>
> I had really only wanted to see their print samples that
> they send out
> on different paper types.
> A gold metallic, to be precise. :-)
> After about a month of "this is Becky from "Pictahhje", I
> knew that even
> if I was willing to hand over much of the control to them,
> which I was
> not, they were pretty expensive, and also persistently
> annoying. Not a
> program for me at all, but YMMV.
>
> Candace
>
>
>
> Robert Burnette wrote:
> > Pictage charges $99 per month for the use of their
> services in addition to the printing and shipping costs.
> They don't leave you much profit.
> >
> > Robert
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: John Hudson
> >
> >> I came across a high end Canadian wedding
> photographer recently
> >> who utilizes
> >> www.Pictage.com in Torrance, California.
> >>
> >> The arrangement looks to be that he emails all his
> digital
> >> images to Pictage
> >> who in turn generate hardcopy prints and ships
> them back to
> >> Canada, or
> >> emails print ready files to Canada for printing at
> the newly
> >> marrieds' photo
> >> lab of choice.
> >>
> >> In respect of the prints coming north across the
> US / Canadian
> >> border I was
> >> led to believe that no Canadian taxes were levied
> at the border
> >> which would
> >> save money on what would otherwise be the sales
> taxes levied on
> >> a set of
> >> Canadian produced prints.
> >>
> >> Does anyone in Canada have experience of dealing
> with Pictage
> >> and whether
> >> the tax free border crossing is for real?
> >>
> >> jh
> >>
> >>
> >>
>
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