<p>^^ I so agree. You went to a club with Nick Lachey and decided to take pictures? Please. I bet that club had plenty of beautiful women. You should not be moaning about money lost, but fun you lost not dancing.</p>
<p>Suck it up and move on.</p>
<p>dwerbowy…you have a gambling debt or some other pressure to obtain funds? You sound like a stalkarazzi in training so go out and ■■■■■ for some additional photos.</p>
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Well said. I’ve certainly learned a valuable lesson in life that may save me much more than $50k in future financial decisions.</p>
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When Nick decided that night to visit a night club, rubbing shoulders with a couple thousand people packed inside a rather small club, I’m pretty sure he wasn’t worried about his privacy. He’s a celebrity, pictures of him are taken daily, people who go to night clubs take cameras!! he knows it, big deal!! It’s how the entertainment world works and the ‘cost’ for being famous. Are you some kind of cornfield hick who’s never heard of this happening?? Taking pictures of him inside his house would be a different story.</p>
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I never expected 500, I was offered 500. I expected $5,000, and $50,000 after the divorce.</p>
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a toast to capitalism!</p>
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<p>I took all four photos in a span of 5 minutes. I was at the club from 1am to 4:30 am. I visit that club 3-4 times a month, among other clubs. Believe me, I didn’t loose much fun not dancing. $1,000 is better than 5 minutes of even sex.</p>
<p>This is kind of funny how it happened. Doesn’t seem like you are going to get any money. I mean, really, it is just bad luck. It’s as if you bought gas yesterday at $3/gallon and today it’s $2.75. Are you really going to go to the gas station and complain when you both could not have predicted the drop? What if the National Enquirer made a mistake, and it turns out they don’t really have a use for the pictures. Is it valid for them to ask you for a “little bit” of your thousand dollars?</p>
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<p>Well think of it this way, you didn’t really lose anything in learning this lesson. You made some money. Usually people lose something they already possess before a lesson is learned so that they don’t lose it again. What you lost here was more of an opportunity cost than anything else. </p>
<p>You speak of privacy issues. I do agree that when one gains fame they need to understand that there will be privacy invasion issues, but that trend alone should not be justification for taking such pictures. It reminds me of the drug-related “Everyone else is doing it so it must be ok” argument. Regardless, in your case, I would not say you were bugging him or invading his privacy (hell, a case just passed here at Penn where kids having sex against a window had their picture taken. The photographer had the charges dropped). You made away with a thousand dollars and a lesson in business. Therapist? Why waste the time and money, in my opinion. You made some nice gains.</p>
<p>To everyone else, just becomes someone feels seller’s remorse does not necessarily make it “fair” to discredit those feelings because other people have it worse. I’ve had a lot of pain in my life, but I am not going to go accusing someone else of “not understanding true sadness” because such things may seem pale in comparison.</p>
<p>hazmat- “dwerbowy…you have a gambling debt or some other pressure to obtain funds? You sound like a stalkarazzi in training so go out and ■■■■■ for some additional photos.”</p>
<p>I think you mixed me up with the original poster, who is mynt2008. I quoted him/her…cuz otherwise your post doesn’t really make sense to me…</p>
<p>I understand part of the hatin’ that’s been written, but I’ll just repeat mynt2008 is right. It isn’t some sort of seller’s remorse. For example, suppose he found a meteorite that has seemingly all the properties. He goes to a rock and gems shop, the owner also thinks it’s gold (or not) and buys it. Then NASA comes out and gives out info that a meteorite hit some place. The rock and gem shop owner investigates, and finds out the rock he just bought cures cancer. Makes millions. He makes over a billion dollars, the discoverer only got $2,000. The law would not uphold the contract because there was no meeting of the minds as to what it was they were selling. Like I said, mynt2008 is right, but maybe he’s thinking of it the wrong way.</p>
<p>o gosh, mynt’s life is so hard. she got money for doing nothing but being nosy and rude and thats not enough! Well well i honestly do not care at all and you should honestly not be so selfish, think about others, think about people who have nothing. Youre complaining about not getting enough money for selling a tabloid picture is ridiculous ok.</p>
<p>emsibdn, that’s horrid logic.</p>
<p>By your same example, previous sellers of Microsoft stock that sold 2 days ago and then MSFT releases profit earnings and they’re good, then should the sellers of Microsoft stock receive all the money they would have gained had they waited for extra time?</p>
<p>It’s CURRENT market value. He sold it at the time where the market value was low, whereas now, he regrets it.</p>
<p>mynt I’d be pretty upset too, if I was in that situation I’d asked for a couple of thousands in the first place.</p>
<p>take your grand and get a psychotherapist whiner.</p>
<p>I get this mindset when I’m playing poker.</p>
<p>There are two types of loss: Realized loss, and potential loss.</p>
<p>Realized loss would have been if you had been paid $x for the photos and had misplace the money.</p>
<p>You experience potential loss. You could’ve gotten more money, but you still came out ahead. Just not nearly as far ahead as you could have. This would be like having a winning hand, but folding it before the turn, where the completing card is overturned. </p>
<p>And do you realize how insane a price $50k is for a photo?</p>
<p>Hey you sold them then there value skyrocketed its a business and you got shafted. It happens to people all the time.</p>