Sam’s Golden Triangle One-Hour

Sams is one of the best in town. He’s always treated my wife and I with respect and honesty. Any question we’ve had he’s answered! We shoot weddings professionally and still like to shoot film and Sam always develops with consistency, and accuracy.

This place is bullshit. Do not go here.
My grandmother recently passed away, and when we were going through her house, we found all these great old pictures and home movies from when my dad was a little boy. His birthday was this weekend, so for his gift, my husband, my brother and I decided to get some of these movies developed, and have the old, musty pictures scanned. I was going to have an online company handle it, but my husband suggested that instead, we support local business and take it to Sam’s Golden Triangle. Welp, that was a terrible idea. This shop is why local businesses are failing.
We had four or five movies transferred to DVD and 28 pictures scanned. The bill? $ 280. That seems outlandish. But that’s not even the worst part. We pulled up the pictures on my laptop, and the resolution was terrible. The owner (Sam, presumably) scanned them on the lowest possible level, leaving us with pixilated bullshit. Thank goodness my husband was able to rescan them at a higher resolution before my parents came over for my dad’s birthday dinner.
But again, that’s not even the worst part. My husband called the dude to complain, and to ask that we get our money back on the pictures. The pictures were completely unusable, and my husband re-​did all of the work himself. The owner, rather than being gracious and apologizing, instead instigated an argument and hung up on my husband. Seriously? It’s just absurd.
In short: shoddy workmanship, criminally over-​priced, and bad customer service. Next time, I’ll go online. This is why small businesses are failing, because of people like this. I would give him zero stars if I could.

Last of the real camera shops in Tampa…
Plus they do conversions from old formats (Super 8, mini-​vcr, etc) to digital files you can do stuff with!
Win.