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Recently had to get some passport photos and the cost at CVS or Walgreens makes me laugh! $20+ for 2 passport photos in this day and age? If there was a platinum award for the master of rip offs, this one would certainly claim the grand prize.
Luckily for me, I went to AAA and got my passport photos for free with my membership, but otherwise oh my gosh. I cannot believe anyone is paying $10 per photo that costs 20 cents in supplies for them to print out.
OK, so charge $4.99 or $5.99 for 2, but $20? These people should be ashamed of themselves for running such a scam.
I know there are passport photo apps out there but I have not tried them out. Would like feedback.
I just had my passport photo taken today, as I need to renew my passport. I had it done at AAA, 2 pics for $8. I was good with that.
Recently had to get some passport photos and the cost at CVS or Walgreens makes me laugh! $20+ for 2 passport photos in this day and age? If there was a platinum award for the master of rip offs, this one would certainly claim the grand prize.
Luckily for me, I went to AAA and got my passport photos for free with my membership, but otherwise oh my gosh. I cannot believe anyone is paying $10 per photo that costs 20 cents in supplies for them to print out.
OK, so charge $4.99 or $5.99 for 2, but $20? These people should be ashamed of themselves for running such a scam.
I know there are passport photo apps out there but I have not tried them out. Would like feedback.
A few thoughts:
1. If $20 upsets the vacation budget then maybe you should consider a staycation instead.
2. Passports are good for 10 years, so amortized its $2 a year, 3.8 cents a week.
3. Imagine how many passport photos are returned as "no good" so the drug store needs to redo them again for free or refund the money. I'd bet that is the biggest reason for the charge as well as the convenience of having one nearby.
I was at the Ferrari factory in Italy and they charged $40 to get a picture of you sitting in a 600K car. I did it since it was cheaper than buying the car!
Recently had to get some passport photos and the cost at CVS or Walgreens makes me laugh! $20+ for 2 passport photos in this day and age? If there was a platinum award for the master of rip offs, this one would certainly claim the grand prize..
$20 is a ripoff for a 10 year passport? LOL. Maybe if one is cheap.
Try getting your car fixed, thats IS a ripoff because most people have no idea whether the quoted price is valid or a con.
“Sir we noticed leaking fluid so we had to remove the engine to find the leak and fix it, that will be $900.”
I feel bad for the OP, they aren't getting any love here. Hopefully they got over the sticker shock by now and realized it really wasn't a scam, or nothing to get upset over.
If you want to talk rip off, let's talk about dentists' fees. I've never once left a dentist's office feeling satisfied, that the fee charged was a good value for the service. They gotta pay for their Benz and country club memberships somehow...
When I got mine renewed at the Post Office passport office, they took them on the spot, I don't recall if there was an extra charge, if there was, it was minimal.
Post Office in Philadelphia charges $15 for a passport photo, appointment-only, separate from your passport application appointment. The PO website does not specify if you can do both appointments back-to-back. From the previous post, it sounds like that's okay.
I agree with the OP. $20 is a lot to charge for two prints of one photo taken by a polaroid camera with a split lens and placed into a little paper folder.
I can't see what possible difference it makes that it won't have to be redone for the next ten years. A $15 an hour clerk with no extra training is spending 5 minutes and using a $1.50 (retail price) card of polaroid film. That's quite a hefty mark-up.
When stores and businesses do not want to provide a service, they over-charge, so at least they are being well paid for the annoyance of doing work they don't want to do.
To be fair to the store, in 2019 they were charging $$13.99, and prices on just about everything have double so $20 is probably just inflation.
On the other hand, when CVC was charging $13.99, Sam's was charging $5.31, so all along CVS has never ever wanted to be in the passport business. They are very close to being the most expensive place to get a passport photo done.
When was the last time you had passports done? Polaroid quit making film available around 2008/2009. And taking passport pics does take a bit of training, well, most of it's done by computers now, but prior to that you had to be aware of what is and isn't acceptable on a passport and for which countries (not all of them are for US passports)
Seriously?!?!
Because of $20?!?!
Not even close to a platinum award or a grand prize.
RIGHT! I thought the master ripoff was the $17 miller lite I bought at a high end restaurant one time.
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