@Morledzep wrote:

Let's beat this dead horse, just because I'm bored, and I'm trying to give myself a reason to cut my nails.

I agree with Service, when I'm taking pics at gas stations I do my best to avoid taking pics of folks, I wait until they are hiding behind their gas pumps, or go inside the store when I'm taking pics of the store front. At the counters, when I need a counter pic, if I can't get a break between customers, I only take the pic with their back to the camera, or I stand and wait. For whole site pics, I use the editor to blur out license plates and faces that are visible. But I also take several pics and from both front corners of the location so I have enough pics and possibilities.

Sometimes there are people who just can't resist looking at the forking camera. You tell them you're taking pics and they are going to be in them if they don't move or hide and they still stand there and look at the camera. Those folks get their pictures taken, and their faces blurred out with the photo editor.

Like I said before, I'm friendly, to a point, but if they're going to try to start some kind of confrontation, I will walk away. If someone asks me politely what I'm doing, I'll tell them that I am simply doing a marketing audit for the gas company. If they ask how I get the gig I tell them it pays @#$%& and I'm an independent contractor, it's not a job to do if you're looking for a regular or a good paycheck.

@sestrahelena wrote:

@Morledzep wrote:

When the counter is busy with customers: there is often a second, unopened register. I simply grab the "Register closed" sign off the counter, step back a few feet, get the pic and return the sign to it's place.



I like this idea. In a big city there are so many times when there are just people and more people in the way but sometimes an unused register exists.

@sestrahelena wrote:

Ooooh! You've got a fancy phone! Mine only crops.

@Morledzep wrote:

@sestrahelena wrote:

Ooooh! You've got a fancy phone! Mine only crops.

It's a crappy Pixel 7 Pro. Only works when it wants, Google phones suck, but I'm stuck paying for it for 2 more years. My old LG V60 thinQ had similar editing, just not the pixelate to blur faces, that was the phone that I learned how to make big orange blobs to cover faces and license plates on. I would still be a loyal LG phone customer if they hadn't quit making them.

@sandyf wrote:

My Pixel 3a is a workhorse and does all those fancy things like blur and a laundry list of others. I bought it used 2 years ago for a little over $100 with a full one year warrantee. If your 7 is not working well you must have gotten a lemon. I have not looked to upgrade to a newer version but the used 6 phones are prob around the price I paid now. And every time they come out with a new version they offer me $150-200 on a trade in. I might take them up on t next time. My son says to keep it tho as the 3 has unlimited photo storage and the newer ones do not.
I recommend Back Market for for anyone looking for used electronics. They are great. And instead of sale ads they send corny jokes. I love corny jokes.

@Morledzep wrote:

@sandyf wrote:

My Pixel 3a is a workhorse and does all those fancy things like blur and a laundry list of others. I bought it used 2 years ago for a little over $100 with a full one year warrantee. If your 7 is not working well you must have gotten a lemon. I have not looked to upgrade to a newer version but the used 6 phones are prob around the price I paid now. And every time they come out with a new version they offer me $150-200 on a trade in. I might take them up on t next time. My son says to keep it tho as the 3 has unlimited photo storage and the newer ones do not.
I recommend Back Market for for anyone looking for used electronics. They are great. And instead of sale ads they send corny jokes. I love corny jokes.

There are significant problems with the Pixel 7 Pro. There are intermittent touch screen issues. Sometimes the knock knock open doesn't work and you have to restart the phone to wake it up (these are common problems that the tech support folks know about). Sometimes it randomly starts heating up, usually when they are uploading updates while I'm trying to use my phone or charge it (24/7), but sometimes when it's just sitting on the table, not doing a single thing (tech support says it's never been over temp). All of my other phones the phone company could access the phone and see what I see on the screen, they can't do that with this one, I don't know if it's Pixels in general, or just my malfunctioning phone. I never know when it's going to work right, but I've had to learn all of the various ways to turn it off and on again, or restart it so that I can use it.

@sandyf wrote:

My Pixel 3a is a workhorse and does all those fancy things like blur and a laundry list of others. I bought it used 2 years ago for a little over $100 with a full one year warrantee. If your 7 is not working well you must have gotten a lemon. I have not looked to upgrade to a newer version but the used 6 phones are prob around the price I paid now. And every time they come out with a new version they offer me $150-200 on a trade in. I might take them up on t next time. My son says to keep it tho as the 3 has unlimited photo storage and the newer ones do not.
I recommend Back Market for for anyone looking for used electronics. They are great. And instead of sale ads they send corny jokes. I love corny jokes.

@Morledzep wrote:

@sestrahelena wrote:

Ooooh! You've got a fancy phone! Mine only crops.

It's a crappy Pixel 7 Pro. Only works when it wants, Google phones suck, but I'm stuck paying for it for 2 more years. My old LG V60 thinQ had similar editing, just not the pixelate to blur faces, that was the phone that I learned how to make big orange blobs to cover faces and license plates on. I would still be a loyal LG phone customer if they hadn't quit making them.

@AZwolfman wrote:

Customer upset. Thinks your taking his picture.
Yes, this happened to me several times at gas station audits. It's really sad to say, but it is almost always the same specific race and demographic person who takes issue and gets upset.