Cheap Photobooth Hire and Ways to Spot It

Cheap photobooth hire – we get it! You want the best deal out there for your event. Budgets reign supreme! You’re after an awesome experience for your guests but an awesome price as well. It’s easy to be tempted by website’s flaunting “your area’s cheap photobooth hire specialist”.

On the other hand, we hear the stories where cheap photobooth hire didn’t go so well. Photobooths have been around for a while now. No one knew what a photo booth was in 2009 when In the Booth began. Fast forward to 2021 and customers are far savvier. Most have experienced different booths before at other functions. They’re well aware that a Ford Fiesta is not the same experience as a Porsche, if you get our drift

The trouble with taking the low cost road with your special event is that there is no re-do button. If you are unhappy with your experience, you don’t get to host your wedding or milestone party a second time. That’s why we take our job so seriously. Quite simply, we HAVE to get it right the first time. In other words, we don’t believe in our customers paying us to practice.

Obviously In the Booth offers a high end service. You will receive plenty of cheaper quotes than ours – we guarantee it! What we also guarantee is that you won’t find a better experience. Today on the blog we’re looking at some tell-tale signs of cheap photobooth hire.

Unsightly technical equipment

Everyone knows a photo booth takes technical equipment to run. There’s the camera, the printer and the computer and the myriad of cables required to power them. One way to spot cheap photobooth hire is if you can SEE this equipment. Technical equipment looks unsightly, there’s no doubt about it. You can check out as many photos of our photo booth as you like – you’ll never see this equipment on display. Everything our booths need to operate is fully concealed. Power cables taped across the floor aren’t just unattractive – they’re a tripping hazard. A smart question for photo booths with tripod set ups is to ask how power cables are concealed from guests’ view.

Cheap photobooth hire via an iPad

A large number of commercial photo booths flooded the market using iPads to capture the image. iPads are not known for their image quality! These are exceptionally common in tower or open style photo booths. Ensure you ask your photo booth provider how their images are captured. We won’t settle for less than a DSLR camera at in the booth. We have heard many a horror story about unusable images from other providers. We’re responsible for your memories and we take this responsibility seriously. You can check out the quality of our images here.

Discount store props

Call us crazy but we’re of the thinking that your guests should be the focus of your images. Consider this. When you look back at family photographs, are you looking at the things or the people? We’ll go out on a limb and say it’s all about the people. We’re passionate about our props adding an element of whimsy to your photos but not overtaking them with plastic! Cheap photobooth hire services may include statements like “biggest range of props” or “over 100 props” – but what does that mean? We reckon 20 pairs over oversized glasses belong in a showbag, not in your wedding day memories! Hundreds of props do not add value to your photo booth hire package. They are a way for cheap photobooth hire services to compensate for quality inclusions their low price doesn’t allow them to offer.

Poor Reviews

When hiring suppliers for your celebration, reading reviews should be like an addiction! Read the good, the bad and everything in between to help you make up your own mind. Few or no reviews should be treated with caution. Reviews only found on a company’s website should be disregarded – our Mum’s reckon we have a great photo booth service too! We highly recommend checking out ALL the following locations for reviews:

Lack of photos and details about inclusions

With In the Booth, every single inclusion we offer has a dedicated link on our website including photos and descriptions. If a photo booth hire company says it includes as USB, what does that mean? What sort of USB? When will it be supplied? What image format will it include? If there’s a guest book, what does it look like? Is it an additional cost? How will guests get their own copies of their digital images?

We encourage all our customers to ask as many questions as possible. It’s often the questions not asked that cause the most disappointment after your celebration. Ask us one today!