Why are Passport photos so expensive?
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IIRC AAA is slightly cheaper, with additional discounts based on AAA memberships.
Some AAA members are entitled to one free set of passport photos every year.
Some AAA members are entitled to one free set of passport photos every year.
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My guess is the store offers it as a service to get people in the store and hardly looks at it as a revenue generator.
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I'd rather have the experts do my passport photos so that I'm sure they comply with requirements for passports and visas. I'd rather pay $10 extra than risk having the application returned to me because the photos don't meet the standards.
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All you have to do is take your own headshot with a camera and arrange it in 3x2 matrix on a 4x6 sheet, and print online at Walmart or Walgreens, etc. $0.35.
There are even webpages online which will help you create the 3x2. Just search, people.
There are even webpages online which will help you create the 3x2. Just search, people.
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The last time I needed passport photos, the machine at the Walgreens next door was broken, so I went to epassportphoto.com and printed my own -- and I printed enough to last until my looks go to pot. No more $8 passport photos for me!
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They seem cheap to me because it *used* to be so much more difficult and expensive to get them done. Twenty years ago, you had to find a photographer who was set up to do it. Now, you can get them done almost anywhere.
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high school dropouts working for min wage are experts to you?
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Pretty much the same reason that everything else is expensive or cheap. Market. You went in. They quoted you $15. You paid it. If no one pays that, the price goes down. As long as people are paying that price, no reason for them to charge less.