Photographer's Spam Mail
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- megE
Considering everyone knows everyone - I'm going to cover up the names in this just to avoid drama. However, this is a true story! Happened to my coworker this morning.
Yesterday we were contacted by a photographer through an email blast in which we did not voluntarily sign up for. Getting these spam email blasts has been a problem in our office and we've been trying to stop them at the source. He on the other hand took a different approach. Below is his response to the photographer's email then his response back. Enjoy.
Photographer,
Why would anyone ever choose a photographer who uses spam mail as a form of advertisement?If your photography was any good at all...you wouldn’t have to lower yourself to the same level as fraudulent penis enlargers.
Reevaluate what you’re doing. Realize where you’ve placed your credibility. Just a tip.
Regards
[photographer's reply]
interesting, ....you must be a very frustrated man, reading all of your below the belt insults , makes me want to forward it to some of my creative director friends and !! clients at BBH, mc cann, saatchi and publicis.
i dont think they will share your enthusiasm in insulting good talent ... and you would be on a blacklist in seconds by the way.....
actually i do have contracts with VOGUE , the most prestigious magazine out there,and not because i hit the party-scene,.... i actually have never even met these people, and still work for them on a regular basis, because exactly of my work.
solely introduced through exactly this way of communication,....email only ....
but may be you dont understand this out there in the hills....in no-where land.....
and may be thats why you are not in new york, but out there in the middle of no-thingness.....competing with nobody....being frustrated ,....insulting other people over email...
you wouldn't survive a week here with your way of talking to people ....
you are off the list, as i said , and i will remember your name .....for sure
may be one day we will meet in new york,since we always meet twice in life.... and hell i will remember your insults ....
akos
- shitehawke0
Sounds like a complete cunt to me.
- Mal0
Douche can't even spell
- Mau0
welcome to the internet
- 7point340
wait, hold on a tic...
what's this about penis enlargement?
- bolus0
you mean this one:
http:/ /w ww.akos photography.c om /
(remove the spaces)
- megE0
dammit yes, that's him....
i forgot to replace the signature
*oops! :)
- hehe sorry for pointing it outbolus
- *shakes head sadly.shitehawke
- I LOVE THAT !!!dyspl
- shitehawke0
Names have been changed to protect the insolent.
- plash0
I think all forms of finding work is fine. Those with a salary job may not understand that freelancers wake up unemployed everyday and finding new leads is key to progressing their craft. plus the current condition of the economic workforce forces us to try the "undesirable " options.
- Carl_Weathers0
His attitude sucks but his photography kicks ass. Mostly.
- Yes, they mostly come out at night. mostly.shitehawke
- models kick ass, photography itself is quite boring imhobolus
- Mau0
I like his work
;)
- megE0
I like his stuff just fine - but we do get spammed here all the time, it's ridiculous
- Mal0
yeah nice work
- oilpanllc0
why so many ...'s? photographers heart must have been pumpin' ...
- boobs0
No squeeze for him!
- dyspl0
Like his work, but have to say that kindness is not only here for less renowed/talented people.
- bekannt0
weird he is spamming, having such an impressive portfolio. doesn#t make any sense..and if he has contract with vogue. why would you loook for more clients via spamming ???
- zenmasterfoo0
"If your photography was any good at all"
I think you were a bit harsh with that little quip. That he responded with all guns blazing is his choice, given your tone. I'm not giving you a hard time but they guy has a solid client list and his photography, although not my favorite by any means, is good for the industry he works in. Maybe if you had just pressed him on the spam and not attacked him personally, you may have gotten a different response.
Just a thought..
- wasn't me.... was coworkermegE
- coworker = ASSHATGetRefresh
- agreed. dumbo the coworker needs to speak up for himself.zenmasterfoo
- +1Arild
- GetRefresh0
Why did you reply to him at all? And when you did, why the smart-ass and disrespectful comments? You deserve to be blacklisted for being so stupid.
Two cunts don't make a right. But two Wrights did make the first airplane.
- monospaced0
What your coworker wrote shouldn't have been seen as insulting. He simply reacted to a sleazy method of self-promotion by saying that a self-respecting photographer shouldn't have to do such a thing. The photographer, on the other hand, ended up sounding like a total snob and resorted to name-dropping and embellishments, not to mention passion-inspired writing full of grammatical, spelling and syntax errors which expose his lack of education. The fact stands that a good photographer shouldn't lower himself to the level of a penis enlargement scam.
- he did, but they left themselves open to it, unfortunately.zenmasterfoo
- megE0
It was meant to be funny - sorry to offend anyone, but maybe "out there in the hills....in no-where land....." have a different sense of humor :)
{but yes, mono, I agree, coworker just had the intention of pointing out that a good photographer shouldn't lower himself to the level of spam --- maybe he didn't word it correctly}