I just had to post, coz I'm fuming. I'm really angry about a company, and the worst bit is, it doesn't even directly affect me. I'll explain..... There's a company in our area that specialises in hanging around at malls, shows etc stopping women who go by and offer them either a free makeover, or entry into a competition where they can win a free makeover (which they miraculously do - all of them!). These poor deluded souls then go along, have the makeover and the company takes photo's of them in what can only be described as trite, tacky, 1800's style poses. You know the stuff, resting on feather boa, doe-eyed smile, soft lighting etc etc.... y'know , the tacky crappy poses that any photographer with a bone of decency wouldn't touch.... Anyways, the crux of it is, they then offer these photo's to the victi...erm, winner for massively over-inflated prices. OK, there's no obligation to buy, but y'know what women are like when you compliment them enough.... and yeah, they fall for it, hook line and sinker. Cheap these pics are not. Anyways, I just found out one of our friends was gullible enough to fall for this scam a coupla years back, and she asked me to scan the pics onto cd for her to email to a friend. I sits down, thinking oooh, 35 pics, standard 7x5's, scan at 600dpi, should take... what, an hour? 2 mins per pic - more than enough..... and starts working..... 2 hours on I've scanned 15. Why? Because these downright f******** expensive pics are a pile of crap.... on the first one I found a grey spot and thought my scanner was dirty, so cleaned it and fixed the pic in PS. Next one - same spot. Physically unscrews the scanner apart and cleans BOTH sides of the glass to make sure. Does blank scan - not a thing.... 3rd, 4th pics - the same. Coz the pics are the size they are, you have to look real close.... Then the fun REALLY starts.... of the 15 pics I've done so far, 2 of them have a hair in the picture - one just above the top lip and VERY noticable on the original... and ALL of them have more dust specks etc than a.... well, something rather dusty. I'm mad at them..... I can't wait until I see one of their reps approach wor lass sometime, coz I'm gonna be VERY vocal about what I think of their quality control.... I'm gonna stop ranting, coz this is already way tooooo long... thanks for reading this far and letting me vent... (",)