Helene's team were committing something akin to fraud for the photo task.

They seem to be printing out a photo on some crappy paper ( was it normal A4?) and charging £15 for it. Now they may not have exactly defined to customers what format the finished product would be but to deliver that was just a con!

Had I been given such an appalling thing I would have immediately demanded my money back, along with some considerable bile!

I checked out the Apprentice website to view the unseen footage (another member told me about it), and one lady does complain. I am still amazed no one else did, I agree with your post. Its hard to believe people would pay for what they got.

I think people were too polite to complain, especially with the cameras on them.

If my maths is correct, they only sold about 50 in total all day! Not great considering the volume of people there!!!

I was a bit surprised at how the public paid £15 for a plain paper A4 print as well.

On my home printer I can print an A4 photo quality glossy paper printout at a cost of around 70p or so.

The public can be so gullible.

I wasn't quite sure if it was completely plain A4 paper, if it really was then that really is completely outrageous.

No! I certainly wouldn't have and thoroughly expected; A: people to complain and B: Sralan to pick them up for selling shoddy goods.

Unfortunately neither. Quite odd really.
I'd think twice before buying a proper, glossy pic like that for £15 but on a dull sheet of A4 with a big white border round the edge? No chance.

I thought SAS would bring that up as well, I guess had they lost he would have raised it.

And the idea of framing those pictures was a good one, a flabby photo on a limp piece of A4 paper is not something that anyone can use. If however they had been framed that would have been useful, or a framing option.

It was just outrageous.

I would never dream of having my photo taken in the middle of a shopping centre.

Y0u are margaret and I claim my £5

I found it odd that people would pay that amount to a stranger with no guarantee of quality when you can do the same job on your own camera via the internet for half the price using a reputable dealer.

yes- but not with a Beckham lookie-likey!
Or with Simon (swooooon) telling you to make love to his lens extension.

Were the customers not told the format in which they could expect their photo?

No I wouldn't have paid £15 for a photograph on A4 paper. I'd have refused to pay and in addition complained. However many of the customers had kids. If it comes to disappointing children who are expecting to receive their photo with 'David Beckham' then maybe the parents cough up.

Indeed...

Instead he exclaimed to the teams that had to stop selling these piece of papers due to 'technical difficulties': "People were ready to spend their money and you did not take it off them!?"

I liked him up till now, but that remark just showed what a tosspot he really is.

Strangely, I did picture the Emailer when writing that message.
Complete coincidence, I’m sure.

I don't get it...

Edit: just googled Emailer.... that explains it.... good one Chief....

I won't elaborate further, for fear that Margaret, Mount & Ford Solicitors are reading.

I had an emailer. It was rubbish.

I'm not surprised one bit that they flogged pictures for £15 a time on a sheet of paper.

Jennifer was in their team, and she can already flog blank sheets of paper for £50. Isn't it obvious she simply taught them all how to do it on the cheap!

Why didn't Sir Alan criticise this in the boardroom?
Normally he blows his top when a team do something like this whether they are the winning team or not.

Something very fishy about this.
I too find it very hard to believe that people would accept their photos on normal A4 paper and pay £15 pound for it.
I just don't buy it for a minute (excuse the unintentional pun).
It really makes me wonder if these figures at the end in the boardroom are real or not and if those profit totals have been bent a bit in order to fit production ideas of the show.

I just refuse to believe that people would fork out £15 for their photo on a flimsy piece of A4. Can't see how that could happen.
Are the profit totals at the end of the task just 'pretend' profits for the benefit of television entertainment and the production team decides who wins or loses the task?

I would have thought most people here would be furious at being asked to pay £15 for their photo on a piece of A4 and would simply refuse to pay for it.
So for that reason alone I just don't believe it.

I agree. What on earth are you going to do with it once you've been given it?
Fold it up and put it into your pocket to take it home.

Or did they glue it onto a piece of cardboard with some Pritt Stick glue so that people can treasure it and put it up on their mantelpieces?

It just doesn't ring true at all. It really makes me wonder if these task results are a bit bent.

Well yet again, I'm with you on this Alrightmate.

I've often wondered if the figures are real.

I know it's off topic, but why do we never see or hear any of the team tallying up their takings at the end of the task? It makes me very suspicious that this could be tampered with.

And as for paying £15 for an A4 picture that punters could do themselves at home, then I don't buy this either. I know for a fact if I had ordered a picture and then was handed an A4 sheet of paper, I would point blank refuse to pay for it. I would imagine that most people would.

So I doubt very much that the girls made the profit that they did on this basis...and in effect, it brings the credibility of the whole show into question

I think much of it is pre-planned by the production team to ensure a continuing balance of male/female competitors, wet lettuces and ogres. I doubt if they normally make up the takings but I'm sure they would do if it was necessary to get rid of someone they wanted out (i.e. change the winning team to the losing team).

I think there must be many embarrassing moments too (angry customers) that they just dare not show. But let's face it, many people will happily pay £15 for a piece of cr@ppy limp photo paper or some cheap piece of rubbish merchandise made by the teams, if they think it's for TV. Suppliers will give stuff away to doe eyed girlies too - same reason. Hotels will entrust their laundry to a decidedly fly-by-night dodgy enterprise (that in real life they'd never ever do) just because... it's for TV.

People are like that and the producers run this for TV, not to find an employee for Sir Alan - he doesn't need any of them, it's all for the show. I'll still watch it though!

I'm really easy-going, but I'd have dug my heels in and refused to pay!