Heil Harvesting, Ulysses KS/Limon CO | This is a VENT as much as anything. If you can't tell by my activity on NAT I have been on the internet most of the day. It is now 4:40ish central and I am two emails away from leaving the office...
Really been an interesting day but a long and boring one all at the same time. Dealing with auctioneer out of Canada and their graphic design company.
Auctioneer has been great to deal with, particular but great. We did have to reshoot some items. Move some items etc. I understand the idea is to attract people to the auction, auctioneer works for the seller, I work for the auctioneer, so I work for the seller. I have no idea how many shots i have taken but sent about 200 photos. Probably half of which it sounds like will make their website.
Now, this graphic design lady, she is about to drive me NUTS! She is clueless. Her title on her email says she is a graphic designer and her computer capabilities are ridiculous. The first group of photos I uploaded as an album through my hotmail, their is a link right next to the album that says 'Download All'. Well she cannot seem to grasp this concept, So I ask her to open the images and download them manually (right click, Save Image As). Well she is on a Mac, that will not work. I am sure there is a way on a Mac but I know little to nothing about Macs past the Apple 2E (Oregon Trail baby!). What about PhotoBucket? She supposedly has never used it and is set against trying it. She wants them as attachments. Problem is, attachments are limited to 25 megs on hotmail, about 10 photos. 200 photos at 10 photos at a time, at 7 to 10 minutes per upload gets to be a lot of time. A lot of useless time. I have office work to do in the office but I just get into something and shabang, time to upload again. All because this lady is an idiot.
Things this lady does understand: mega pixels. I made the mistake of mentioning that I may resize the images to decrease my data uploaded, more photos per email, etc. No, she wants all 10.2 megapixels. What the hell is she doing with 10.2 megapixel photos? She is making brochure and putting them on a website. We are not printing out landscapes for an art display on 3 ft by 5 ft photo paper. It will be looked at on a monitor and a computer screen and on a shiney brochure. Get real. I suspect they charge the auction company for hosting based on the amount of data hosted and large photos means more revenue for her company.
I will be the first to admit that DSLs downfall is upload speed, but this has gotten out of hand. Her supposed incompetence is ridiculous. If it was on Photobucket or as an album through Hotmail, I can set it up to upload and walk. But no, I have to load images to email.
So between sorting photos, taking photos, running back and forth from the auction site, uploading photos, reuploading photos because 'she can't access them' and dealing with her I have successfully utilized a full day. Now if it would have been at the auction site, fine, but fact is, she would have her photos quicker if she wasn't dumb about it. And I could have the rest of my day.
Honestly, I enjoyed the shooting and dealing with the auctioneer. I learned some things about photography and advertising and the auction business. I like the family I am shooting the photos for (a Mennonite family--no cameras) and am glad to do it. Really glad. But CRAP LADY!
I will admit that I should have stood my ground a little more on the photobucket and the Hotmail albums and should have just resized the photos but at the time I had no clue what I was getting into.
Last batch of attachments uploading!
EDIT: Zipped some photos and the lady could not make that work. Is zip not an option on a Mac?
Edited by beh 11/29/2010 18:22
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Took some pictures for an auction company today...
