As a former employee of Olan Mills, let me tell you how they really think of their customers. They "train" us to lie and manipulate our customer by trying to sell you picture packages that we are supposed to say that you are only going to get that deal on the day of your appointment. You are not getting a deal on these packages! Their packages are priced like that EVERY day. It's all about trying to force you to spend big money that day because we are supposed to meet a certain average every day. Also, some photographers and sales people will try to tell you that if you don't purchase any other photos that day that your pictures will be erased from their computer. This is totally crap!!! Your pictures will be in the computer system in that studio for about 5 to 6 months!!! DO NOT buy into this! They are only out to get as much money as they can from you by lying to you. If you are shopping in Kmart or Belk, and you are approached by a photographer from Olan Mills and they tell you that they want to photograph your child so they can be"samples" for Olan Mills, DO NOT believe that either! Photographers have no authority to make your child a Olan Mills sample, only the corporate office does that, and chances are your child WILL NOT be a sample! I heard a photographer did this in the Winston Salem Belk, told the lady that her children were going to be samples for Olan Mills, and ended up getting 2-3 hundred dollars out of this lady. They are manipulative people and they brag when they do this to you!!! Olan Mills Portrait Studio is a total RIP OFF!!! They treat their employees like crap, so chances are you will get a very overworked photographer that gives you crappy pictures, especially if they know you are not going to spend alot of money!!! Please do not buy into anything Olan Mills tries to sell you! Don't get me wrong, there are a few photographers that are not like that. I was one of them. They let me go because i wasn't "aggressive " enough with my customers, and I wouldn't lie to them to make them spend lots of money on overpriced, cheap products!!!
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