The Blue Rooms Photographic Studios review: Photography portfolio service from bluerooms 11

We contacted models uk to see what it involves to be a model. On Wednesday the 3rd one of their agents called us and said that my daughter looks perfect for modelling. They said they are running only few sessions this august and best thing for us to do is to get this in early so she doesn’t miss out. We were booked in on the 7th.

We came to london studio, hair and make up artist was ok did very little to my daughters hair and the photographer suggested her first outfit can be what she is wearing now and then we changed in to 3 more. It was all rushed. I would say photographer was good when it came to engaging my daughter.

Then it came to go in to that office to see the pictures. The lady said they took 87 pictures we probably looked at 10 and she was very quick to skim through them, she soon started telling my daughter how amazing she look, how much she could earn, that school will allow her to go and do her modelling during school hours all we need is a pass from the council. She really zoned in on selling it to my daughter asking her lots of questions basically manipulating the situation. She could see I wasn’t on board so she kept trying to turn my daughter against me, my daughter is 12 years old she started getting upset when I was saying we are not fully sure yet and we only came here to see if she is going to enjoy this kind of environment we did not come here to purchase anything, the saws lady kept saying yo my daughter ohh look you really want this, you are so upset, oh I want you to be happy, she then showed us price list and I straight away said no, we are not spending this, she then said look £500 package Is without your portfolio just photos or I could give you this special £850 package you will get your portfolio built which she will need for sending out to the agencies. She kept saying things like well mum look why you not on board, I explained that I know my daughter she thinks she wants this now but this is being glamorous at the moment it can be hard on young children and she dismissed my concerns and kept pushing this, in the end I was completely guilt tripped my daughter was upset I said ok and she soon rushed all plans and payments etc, we paid 200 and then pay 50 a month at the end she told me we would get the package once everything is paid off. And rushed us out of tue door.

We walked out of the studio got in the car and my daughter burst out crying, she said mum I am so sorry I think we got scammed, and I said to her I know I think we have. She said now I am out of there and not being pressured I can see. Please cancel it. I emailed the company an hour after being in studio. And told them we want to cancel and we will not be paying and I am happy to take legal action against them due to aggressive sales tactics being used and how they manipulated situation. Got an email back next day saying they will not cancel and that we need to pay what we agreed as this is a package that we signed up for and it is personalised. I have said to them that the goods have not been despatched or even been touched up yet so the company is not loosing anything and that I want to speak to senior management and see their complaint procedure and policies. It has been three days and I have not heard of anything from them. My daughter is in bits, I am feeling like a fool. I don’t not normally get sucked in to things like that. They completely manipulated the situation and used you get this now or this is never going to be available to you. We were not presented with all choices and were pushed this on us. I have started looking at trading standards and consumer rights, I have also contacted ted citizen advice who told me they have heard of this company before and nothing good. I will be taking it further and plan on getting together few people who were scammed just like us. If you would like to join please let me know. Luckily I also have a friend who is a lawyer so plenty of support from her too.

There were so many people in that studio in london I am sure there are 100s of us who been scammed like this.

Viktorija