Client Canceled Tasting, Wants To Use Family Member
Business By chilicat57 Updated 29 Jan 2014 , 1:45am by costumeczar
Is there anything nice you can say to a client to let them know it isn't a good idea to use a family member who likes to bake for your wedding cake? or do I just let it go?
Tracey owner of Two Girls Baking
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Or "Sorry, that your baker can't complete the order. My price would be $X, it is higher than the previous quote due to the short time frame"... Add on an appropriate rush order fee and time wasted fee to make it worth your while :)
I had a bride cancel a tasting when her dad got sick and then decide that she would try to do it herself to save money. Mind you, she was a pharmacist with no cake experience at all and her cake was going to have a gazebo and a fountain and all kinds of elevated stuff. Some of the stuff she wanted to use was discontinued. It was going to be a huge headache and I was charging extra for having to run down the discontinued stuff anyway. I offered to do a less intense version of what she wanted to help save money but she opted to try to go it alone. I told her "No problem! Good Luck!" and I meant it. I have to say, I wished I could have been a fly on the wall those two weeks before the wedding.
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I had a bride cancel a tasting when her dad got sick and then decide that she would try to do it herself to save money. Mind you, she was a pharmacist with no cake experience at all and her cake was going to have a gazebo and a fountain and all kinds of elevated stuff. Some of the stuff she wanted to use was discontinued. It was going to be a huge headache and I was charging extra for having to run down the discontinued stuff anyway. I offered to do a less intense version of what she wanted to help save money but she opted to try to go it alone. I told her "No problem! Good Luck!" and I meant it. I have to say, I wished I could have been a fly on the wall those two weeks before the wedding.
oh, oooh, ugh.
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