Rich-M
Well-Known Member
Webshots shutdown as Webshots last year pissing me off big time. I had all the installers and over 3000 photos so I just kept using it. They went on to be "Smile" a lousy copy of various photo print websites shutting down all their old services. I saved out my photos and before they shut down they also permitted you to change your portfolio to normal jpegs for use also which I did so if either of you want the install or any libraries I have them.
I have to tell you a funny story, I always put Webshots on every computer I refurbish or build and I have made sales based on it being there and when they screw it up I go out on service calls to fix what they did to it so it is more than great looking, it makes me money. But the funniest of all was a local Boro who I sold a refurbished desktop to the sanitation dept. When I was installing it the Boro Secretary was looking over my shoulder and began asking me questions about the animal pictures. I told her what it was. She then asked me if I could put that on her desktop and I said "sure" when I am done here. Then she said but "it will be gone when I get my new Dell desktop in January". I said "I can come out and put it back on for you ", I said. Then she says "can I buy a desktop from you?". I said "yes, and when I gave you the bids for refurbished I also gave you a bid for new custom desktop as well last week". Oh, she said "I didn't understand that I guess."
A few minutes later she comes back over she asks me if I can beat $1100 and hands me the Dell invoice. I said "I offered you a better system then that for under $700 last month". "Ok I am going to get council to cancel this sale and buy yours but it will have this desktop in it right?" "Do you want me to give you a new estimate" I asked? "No, I won't need that", she said. That wound up being the desktop, a new monitor, and a laser printer before it was over. But it didn't end there. Every week for a few weeks I got calls from her sister, best friend, brother, nephew and one council member all of which wound up with new custom systems built and sold. All insisted they would only buy them with the Webshots desktop on them and I explained I put it on everything I build anyway. The tax collector had been my client for years and using the refurbished one when she was in the office once a week pushed her to order a newer desktop also, not because of Webshots though and she was due.
I have to tell you a funny story, I always put Webshots on every computer I refurbish or build and I have made sales based on it being there and when they screw it up I go out on service calls to fix what they did to it so it is more than great looking, it makes me money. But the funniest of all was a local Boro who I sold a refurbished desktop to the sanitation dept. When I was installing it the Boro Secretary was looking over my shoulder and began asking me questions about the animal pictures. I told her what it was. She then asked me if I could put that on her desktop and I said "sure" when I am done here. Then she said but "it will be gone when I get my new Dell desktop in January". I said "I can come out and put it back on for you ", I said. Then she says "can I buy a desktop from you?". I said "yes, and when I gave you the bids for refurbished I also gave you a bid for new custom desktop as well last week". Oh, she said "I didn't understand that I guess."
A few minutes later she comes back over she asks me if I can beat $1100 and hands me the Dell invoice. I said "I offered you a better system then that for under $700 last month". "Ok I am going to get council to cancel this sale and buy yours but it will have this desktop in it right?" "Do you want me to give you a new estimate" I asked? "No, I won't need that", she said. That wound up being the desktop, a new monitor, and a laser printer before it was over. But it didn't end there. Every week for a few weeks I got calls from her sister, best friend, brother, nephew and one council member all of which wound up with new custom systems built and sold. All insisted they would only buy them with the Webshots desktop on them and I explained I put it on everything I build anyway. The tax collector had been my client for years and using the refurbished one when she was in the office once a week pushed her to order a newer desktop also, not because of Webshots though and she was due.
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