Q: Can I sue a photographer for bad pictures?
I had recently hired a photographer to take pictures for my mother birthday. It took the photographer two weeks to send the pictures when we were promised 5 days. Then the pictures were rushed and properly edited. I want to know if I can sue even if it’s small claim court. I had paid $280 for the shoot.
A:
You can always consider a small claims case as it goes up to $8000, think about the time, effort and cost involved and then if you can really win. You need to pay filing fee and then for service of process, all over $280. I would advise that you try to nicely ask them to take a look at the photos again and try to do a better editing job or just consider it a lesson learned because the time alone involved in pursuing such a case is not worth your time, effort and headache at all in my opinion.
County Civil Filing Fees
Small Claims
$55.00 Claims less than $100.00
$80.00 Claims $100.00 to $500.00
$175.00 Claims $500.01 to $2,500.00
$300.00 Claims $2,500.01 to $8,000.00
$130.00 Replevin actions with claims up to $1,000.00
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