First: We waited over an hour past our appointment in a small, dirty, cluttered, and crowded waiting room (not even enough seats for everyone) to have our kid's senior picture taken. Unfortunately, Sam Pappas is the only photographer the school will allow. They called someone whose appointment was after ours, and though we pointed it out, they still let the other person go first. Every person in the waiting room was angry about the wait and making comments about the poor service and how they experienced the same in prior years with their older kids. Then, they expect you to take a decent photo after sweating and fuming in anger for an hour? The comments we heard from others on their way out were ""I didn't like any of the shots"". He took six really cheap looking rotten shots of our kid which were reminiscent of the 70's; just sitting on a stool like an elementary school photo. If you wanted anything other than that, like standing up, you had to pay extra. I believe that is their whole thing--Sam Pappas forces people who have no choice but to use him for the senior picture into racking up the costs in order to possibly get a decent senior photo. Watching him, I really believe it was intentional of him to take those rotten pictures--and I mean they were poor---so that we would feel pressured into footing the extra cash to get something better. He snapped the 6 pics in less than a minute and he called it a photo shoot. You have about 1 minute to choose your shot for the year book or you pay over $80--nonrefundable, to take the proofs home.
I hope every parent will complain to their school about not allowing a choice, but being forced into using a Walmart quality photographer.
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