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Review of Nevex Printing Centre

I found the website which looked decent, was looki...

I found the website which looked decent, was looking for passport size photographs, so decided to give it a shot as I was in the area. As soon as I walked in I had this urge to turn around and walk out, which i suppressed (never judge a book by its cover and all that).
There was a rather humourless woman sitting at a desk, looked at me after a few seconds, and I asked her about having my passport photo taken, "which country?". Told her it was for general use. Then she actually handed me a point and shoot digital camera and asked me to go downstairs to the basement and have my picture taken (okay... I am presuming there is a studio with lights, otherwise who takes pictures in a basement?). I am glad she didn't ask me to take the picture myself!

I go down some rickety stairs into what looks like an over crowded, untidy workshop kind of space. I stopped thinking what have i gotten myself into, is there a studio somewhere tucked behind a door i cant see? Nope, that was it. There is a small white sheet hung on the wall, you sit against it and get your picture taken with the camera flash on. Then he handed the camera back to me to be taken back upstairs.

The arrangement is very unconventional, its not a studio, you can do what they do at home if you have a printer. So unless you are desperate, need photos quickly and dont really care much about the quality, please dont go there for photos. They don't know how its done.
There were people coming in asking for various things like printouts etc, I have not used any of their other services so cannot comment on that. But customer service doesn't seem to be particularly important to them. Its a bit of take it or leave it kind of attitude which makes me wonder, do i really want to go in there again? even if its for something else? probably not.