[alt-photo] Re: Dentist costs (was: Re: Pt/Pd printing Video)

[Keith Gerling]

Recently, from 3:00 to 4:00 every day, Turkish Airlines has been sponsoring
WFMT,  the fine arts radio station in Chicago.  Their sales pitch is that
one can get medical procedures done in Turkey with a savings of 75-90% off
of the US prices.  They've structured an entire sales campaign around this
with very flexible flight schedules and "deals for the family"

2010/4/29 Loris Medici <mail at loris.medici.name>

> Dentist charges are very "bon marché" here in Istanbul / Turkey, I mean
> relatively. Example: My mother's uncle (R.I.P.) visited us (from Italy)
> years ago, and he had a serious / complex dentistry job. The cost of the
> plane tickets for the round trip + dentist fee was considerably less than
> what he would pay to the dentist in Italy. He had a first class dentistry
> service / job (which he was very satisfied) with additional bonuses of
> seeing us and visiting the city he was born in, after many many years...
>
> ... Err, couldn't think something to bring back the topic into
> alt-processes! ;)
>
> Regards,
> Loris.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: alt-photo-process-list-bounces at lists.altphotolist.org On Behalf Of
> Diana Bloomfield
> Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2010 4:43 PM
> To: The alternative photographic processes mailing list
> Subject: [alt-photo] Re: Pt/Pd printing Video
>
> I agree, Loris.  I just happen to know a couple of people who consistently
> do some printing for others (again, not platinum printing), and knowing
> what
> their material costs are for what they do, I know they charge more than
> $50/hour, though they may not tell the client the cost per hour, or break
> it
> down that way for them.  People are better off, all the way around, doing
> their own printing-- if that's at all possible for them-- but that's just
> my
> thought.  I've done some printing for people before, and I did charge a
> lot-- mainly
> because I felt it was a somewhat thankless job and it was my time--
> but how much people are willing to pay for someone else to print their work
> is always surprising to me. If the demand is there, you may as well charge
> what you can get (law of supply and demand).  I always think about how much
> my dentist charges (which seems outrageous to me), and I figure I'm as good
> at what I do as he is at what he does-- you know, maybe even better--
> though
> I do have a few crowns that look really good.  Of course, they should.
>  They
> cost me a small fortune.
>
> Diana
>
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