Has anyone had this problem at Walmart before with photos?

[Zummi Gummi]

I don't get off on all the anti-Wal-Mart sentiment; they are a corporation, and that's nothing new. If one actually pays attention to the news, that company in particular is making some great changes that other retailers aren't (a great example being that they are phasing out all non-energy saving light bulbs so middle America will have no choice but to adopt), but I think that's really irrelevant to this situation.

What you have here is some idiot sales people who get off on using what little power they have over people to make themselves feel better. They full well see thousands of Disney pictures every week and were just giving you a hard time because they could. I agree with other people in saying go elsewhere. Personally, I've stopped using anything but mail order for pictures - they are much, much cheaper and you can usually get them in 4-5 days.

As to a home photo printer, I would never use that for pictures I wanted to keep permanently. Even the best of them won't stand up nearly as longer as professionally printed photos; and when you really break down the cost (paper, ink, etc.) it's just as cheap to go mail order professional.

AEfx

You know, when I wrote this post, I didn't have any intentions of starting the "Is Walmart good for America?" debate. That never was my intention, and the same problem very easily could have occurred at Target, CVS, Walgreens, or wherever.

Anyway....long story short, Walgreens was able to print my photos without incident. So, the problem was solved. That being said, I am still going in to Walmart tomorrow on principle, because they never informed me about these copyright release forms.

 

[Sumshine 904]

Personally, I don't like Walmart. At all.
You should iether go to a different Walmart or to a completely different store (my dad always goes to CVS to get some pictures, I think).

 

[mattjs]

As was already mentioned, I don't see why they don't just look at the EXIF data. If all the pics are coming from the same camera, and from the same time/date range, they'd have their answer right there. Ridiculous.

 

[Erika]

Shouldn't this thread be close, because it has nothing to do with WDW?

My mistake for not noticing it being posted in a WDW forum. But it doesn't need to be closed.

 

[celticdog]

there's no local retailers left in Orlando

I support my local retailer. I can upload my photos to their website and pick them up the next day at the store right near work. I've never had a problems with copyrights or refusals to print. Plus their quality is better than Wal-Mart and Walgreen's.

Shouldn't this thread be close, because it has nothing to do with WDW?

No, it doesn't need to be closed. Not everything in these discussion forums is about WDW. There are a series of sub-forums on a variety of topics. This particular sub-forum is about digital media and photography.

 

[mkt]

I support my local retailer. I can upload my photos to their website and pick them up the next day at the store right near work. I've never had a problems with copyrights or refusals to print. Plus their quality is better than Wal-Mart and Walgreen's.

I wish that were an option for me, but the only local retailer that does a decent job is Colonial Photo & Hobby which is about 11 miles and $2.50 round trip in tolls away from me.

 

[ErickainPA]

This exact thing has happened to us. We took just normal looking pics (DH does take pro looking pics with backgrounds and poses and such, but that is because he has some really nice photo equipment and WOW can you believe it, someone really knows how to take a photo )

In NJ, DH had a letter put on file that him or myself were authorized to pick up pictures and that the pictures if they appeared to have or did have copyright on them that we authorized them to be printed for our pick up.

We tried to get pics in PA at our local Walmart and they pulled this whole pro photo thing. They couldn't tell me what made them look pro, they called the "manager" and said they needed a letter (hubby was there with his business cards and even the same letter he gave the NJ one, that was from their own website) She wanted a letter on letterhead (heck anyone can just print fake letterhead) with our address and such. It's just ridiculous.

 

[Deadmanwalking]

Had the problem on the last time I used wal-mart and it was the last time I ever used wal-mart.

I simply went home copied the files back onto the chip and then went back to walmart, shoved the chip in the @#$*&^ morons face and said here's the *&^% negative. I got my pictures and the idiot in the photo center got an ear full. To this day I will never ever even consider using wal-mart.