How to lose a potential client in one simple step...

Oh my gosh how rude, and bizarre. Its hardly a new thing people get married on Friday's!

That is rude and bizarre?! I am confused as to why he thinks you care about his opinion? "Quick we had better change the day of our wedding as the pizza man thinks we should do it on a Saturday!".

Lol I've had similar comments with a Sunday wedding. I don't think these people want the business.

Oh and pizza van sounds awesome!

*sporfles*

Haha, I bet if I asked him I can't be getting married on a Wednesday! Who'd a thunk it!

Hahaha! I can understand guests saying that, but suppliers?! What a numpty

Twat!!

Idiot!

He doesn't sound like he's supplied anything for a wedding ever before. I'd stay well clear of him and post a review. He obviously doesn't know what he's doing.

Haha brilliant! Better get started on moving your date, then

He obviously doesn't do many weddings then as Friday weddings are massively popular and i've never shot an empty one yet ?

You should reply and say something like "Thanks so much for that, we'd not realised that no one would come with it being a Friday. All things considered, I seems I wont need to feed anyone after all, so I suppose we wont be requiring your services!"

Haha pleaaaaaassssseeee do this and tell us the response! What a numpty sending you those messages. I think we have all had our fair share of suppliers who appear to not want to work but this one tops them for me :-)

That's ridiculous! I've found that most places are treating Fridays the same as Saturdays now, so clearly he doesn't get much business - not hard to see why!

Our wedding is a Saturday and a few people have commented saying we should have picked a midweek date due to cost! Aaargh you can't win!

^^^^^

THIS!

Oh I would love to read his response to this. What an idiot!

So rude!

Oh hunni i can can blow you out of the water here. i've copied and pasted this from the post i put on the forum i used to frequent when it happened so if the font is different that's why, but this is what happened to me when were tog shopping before we married:

"I e-mailed some togs about 2 weeks ago and one emailed back immediately. He asked to meet us at his studio but he's over 2 hours away from us by train and neither of us currently drive. Add to that the fact we would have to wait until our children were in bed at 8pm and it all becomes unbelievably hard. So we explained this and asked him to call. We gave him a number and rough times to call and he said he would. Cut to 2 weeks later and we hadn't heard from him. Of all the togs we emailed 3 are already booked on our date and 4 out of our budget so we're down to the final contenders and I'm anxious to book someone before we lose another to someone else. So I e-mailed and explained I wanted to make a decision and as a phone call seemed to be proving difficult could he email me a rough quote for us to work with. I have be slightly chatty but never rude. This is the response I got:

From: paul
Subject: Re: Good Evening! Wedding photography required- can you help?
Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2012 00:28:14 +0100
To: winter

Hello
Please leave a number & time to you. Your email takes longer than it takes to make a call.


You are sending the strangest emails I've ever had from a potential future client and find it very unlikely you are actually getting married and need a photographer.

Paul
Sent from my iPhone


How insanely rude is this?
Business lost there methinks!!!!


Finally got home after being out all day and I replied to him with this:

Dear Paul,
I did already send you a phone number and a rough time to call- we've been waiting for you? If you scroll down the conversation you acknowledged that we'd done so, saying you'd call the Thursday of the week you sent the message or one night during the following week.

As to the validity of our enquiry, we most certainly are in need of a photographer for our wedding. Attached to this email is photographic evidence of the receipt of payment in full for our ceremony and reception at Loseley. If we were not in fact getting married that would be somewhat a waste of money. The deposit to the registrar would be a waste of money. The dress I've bought would be a terrible waste. You see where I'm going there? It'd be a rather expensive hoax I think.
Quite why you doubt me I'm unsure. To say my emails are 'strange' is beyond insulting. I may have used a more colloquial tone but I didn't realise that this rendered me fair game to be termed in a derogatory light. I am well aware hiring a photographer is a business deal, but given this is a wedding, I thought it was advisable to build a rapport with the person I was trusting to record my day in this way, and so went with a more informal approach. To cast the aspersion that my need of service was fake and to vilify me with the label of 'strange' is quite frankly hurtful and reduced me to the point of tears.

To be honest Mr. Johnson I am disgusted with your e-mail. I had hoped to spend a considerable amount of money with you by asking you to provide our photography but I simply cannot entrust this task to someone who thinks it is appropriate to speak to potential clients in the way you have. I had hoped to be able to pass on your details to my 10 (yes 10!) engaged friends but now should they ask me yours will not be a name I'd mention.

It is a dreadful shame that our correspondance has to end in this way but after such accusations I do not see there is a way forward for any kind of deal to happen.

Yours,
winter

I sincerely doubt it'll get me an apology or heck even be acknowledged but at least I've explained what the consequences of such a rude email are."

well he did write back and he claimed that he'd confused me with another bride of the same name who'd sent a cheque that never cleared and it turned out she wasn't getting married.

needless to say we never contacted him again and then we found our amazing tog's who did the most incredible job.

honestly there are some suppliers out there who you wonder how they're still in business!!!!

What the?!? Really???