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Margaux G
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3 reviews100 months ago
Be Careful its all lies ( First hand experience from a Second shooter some one that use to work for her)
I write this with a heavy heart after its been remove as Zeone claims this is all lies, I will not let any other bride fall for this or any one working under her. I am absolutely disgusted by the way she treated everything so here it goes again. I am not trying to bad mouth her or steel her brides or damage her business, my only concern is for brides and for other photographers that might assist her. I have been the second shooter for Zeone from June and July from June 2017 till now, we have worked hand in hand and I saw everything that went on. 1 ) I saw every time shes late she tells the brides she was photographing the decor, witch is not tru first lie. This happened the first time I worked with her at Makiti she was late and I was early as I am a punctual person. She paid me the same night of the wedding and I then decided that I would love to work with her,if this was the punctual way she ran her business, well this was the only pay that happened like this. She stayed closer to the venue and I further away and still I was on time and she was late. This has happened a lot. 2) Last year Zeone made a double booking for 15th Dec 2017 at Imperfect perfection before this she had to do the couples engagement shoot and invited me to join as I want to build up portfolio. An hour and a half before the shoot she called me saying she's sick and that I should do the shoot. When the couple arrived they thought I was ZEONE she didn't even have the decency to let them no and on that day I asked them do you know that I will do your wedding as well and they said NO this is after she said its been arranged, and I got to capture their absolutely stunning wedding. this was on 15th Dec 2017 while she did a wedding somewhere ells. (NOT SICK THE 16th Dec is her Birthday and she didn't want to work on her birthday)!!! This email she send to her clients the 15th of Dec the day before their wedding : "Goeie Dag Crizelle Ek hoop dit gaan goed? Met n seer hart het ons vanoggend die dokter gaan sien, nadat ek vir n MRI gegaan het en n EKG het hulle uitslae gekry My brein se brein golwe is aangetas deur n siekte My adrenaline in my brein skop nie meer in nie en verskeie simptome kom voor waar ek grys sien en begin swart kolle sien, en my lyf dan will in gee Margaux my voltydse assistant en fotograaf werk al saam my terwyl ek siek was en sy kan self vir jou se hoe ek vererger by n troue ( ek het haar ge CC in die epos) Die dokter will glad nie he ek moet meer werk nie vir die res van die jaar waar hy my af gebook het. Want hoe meer werk en doen hoe meer strain veroorsaak dit en dan vererger dit my kondisie Margaux moes my troue vandag gaan doen by Imperfect Perfection omdat ek nie mag werk nie En met n seer hart mag ek ook nie jou troue afneem nie So ongelukkig sal ek dit nie meer kan doen nie Margaux alhoewel sal julle troue kan doen teen die selfde kostes en alles wat ek sou gee vir julle ook gee Die deposito wat aan my betaal is sal ek aan haar betaal en al het ek die engagement shoot gedoen sal ek dit nie aftrek nie en haar die volle bedrag betaal Julle laaste betaling kan julle self aan haar betaal asb. Margaux sal jy asb vir haar jou banking details aan stuur Crizelle uit die diepste van my hart is ek jammer en ek is so jammer ek kan nie daar wees nie Margaux Cronje Photograph y sal jou troue afneem en ek gee dit oor aan haar Haar styl is identies aan myne en jy gaan presies kry maar net met ander gesigies Ek glo ek hoop jy verstaan Ek sou baie graag wou deel wees van jou mooi dag Maar om die stadium is ek baie siek en die dokters will nie meer he ek moet werk vir die res van die jaar nie Ek weet jy gaan n stunning bruid wees en ek kan nie wag om te sien wat Margaux gaan doen vir jou nie sys amazing en jys in goeie hande Haar nommer ********** 258 Email: ********** Facebook page: Margaux Cronje Ek sal dokters brief aan jou forward Ek hoor graag van jou Groete Zeone" I had to beg to get the money from her!!! ALL THE SCREEN SHOTS WILL BE ATTACHED TO SHOW ITS THE TRUTH AS SHE REMOVED MY PREVIOUS ONE AND CLAIMED ITS A LIE!!! The 16th Dec I showed up at the wedding just to hear that this has happened to on of their grooms men and friend of them (3rd couple) He said she send him someone better than what she was a BIG SHOT GUY, not the truth it was someone she trained he only started out all tho he have talent, but again lies!!!! The grooms men said she gave them extra Canvas prints to apologies, this she gives to all her brides to either apologize for her bad service or to tell them wow you are so amazing I loved your wedding here is something extra. I asked her to pay me the R6000 Booking fee the clients payed her so I can do gear rental for the wedding, every day she said she will pay and nothing. After the wedding I called her numerous times and send her reminders almost every time just to get my money, my husband sms'ed her and told her we really need the money. She then called me after so many times not answering her phone and said this is between me and her and its not acceptable and all, She said and I quote " Ek is mos siek en jy weet dit, ek vergeet en jy moet my remind" But she went to Capetown and Swim an Jol and Drink but shes sick I should remind her to pay me, This will work once but I do have this nice app that sends out reminders and keep proof of everything I reminded her constantly. By this time she owed me more than R14 000 As I covered another double booking at Diep in Die Berg, she tells the clients that she will do the editing so it will look exactly like her work BTW I did the editing for this wedding. After a lot she stared paying me R1000 here and R2000 there decided on her own that down payment is acceptable and she decided for me that I have agreed to this which is not true. I gave her all the images for every wedding I assisted and owed her nothing and still no payment. Brides that I have assisted with contacted me and said they have been waiting 5 months for their photos and nothing. I feel so sorry for them as most photographers has a waiting period of 3 Months max for if you are ill or go on holiday then you have more then enough time to edit. Zeone told me she can edit in 1 day if she sits and edits so this is just so you know. ( I can't do it in one day it takes me about a week). Laast week Thursday I gave the last of the photos I owed her and that Monday the 22nd of Jan 2018 she told me Thursday when shes here she will pay in full. Thursday she said she will pay Friday and nothing. Saturday I called her she said she will pay now. NEVER DID. This all happens after 44 days of no payment and 22 reminder 2 emails multiple sms's and numerous calls she did not answered. Monday I asked her and she said she payed the Saturday and because its over the weekend it wont show or sms me. I always get a FNB message telling me payment has been made and no sms, so I left it gave her the benefit of the doubt. That evening I was fed up she still owed me R7500 so I posted on a PRIVATE group on Kiki Gauteng not nameing her name and asked for Help what should I do? Every one said never deliver without pay, after this some people messaged me private and called her by name without me telling them they knew who this person was, she had a bad rep with others as well. The next morning 6:04 I received a sms that she paid R2000 , she paid just before whatsapping me and thanking me for the post she was not named in. She then claimed she payed the Saturday but the FNB sms showed its the Thursday morning she paid after sending POP over whatsapp she changed the dates to say its the Saturday and my SMS showed different then she also claimed to have paid the remaining R5500 also Saturday and send pop over whatsap (please find all attached). after moaning and telling her the dates do not mach she quickly paid the R5500 showing time and date stamps in FNB message differs from pop she send over whatsapp. PLEASE NOTE THIS PAYMENT IS 44 DAYS LATE SO NO MATTER WHAT ITS LATE!!!! I don't care if hers say something els it should have been paid last year. Her excuse from a few years ago is she's sick and her excuse now is she's sick. Shes always sick and not feeling well but when it suits her she is ok to go to the Maldives and spend R90 000 on this trip but cant pay me, she buys new leather couches and revamp her little place but cant pay me goes to Capetown siting on nice little boats but cant pay me. IF YOU TAKE FOOD WITHOUT PAYING ITS STEELING SO IT IS THE SAME IF I DELIVER A SERVICE AND NO PAY ITS STEELING. After many many many reminders complains and calls I have finally been paid. SO please please please be warned do your research and get the right suppliers for your wedding and if you do assist her be careful don't burn yourself as I did. I beg of you I was a bride once and I know the stress and the amount of money you spend, don't let this happen to you I ask you out of the deepest of my heart its not to bad mouth her or anything I think people should know the truth and know what they pay for.
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100 months ago
Be Careful its all lies ( First hand experience from a Second shooter some one that use to work for her)
Good Day all, I write this with a heavy heart. This photographer was my mentor and we had to separate paths due to lies and no payment. I use to second shoot for Zeone from June & July, I saw everything that went on behind the scenes and if I was one of her brides I would be furious. I have seen numerous times how she lied to her clients and what she does. Every time she's late she just tells the bride that shes been at the venue photographing the venue, as I was her second shooter I saw this every time. I am a punctual person and the first time I shot with her she was late and had some excuse, she stayed closer to the venue than me but still she was late. I was impressed that the paid the day of the wedding so I decided wow I would love to learn from her, how she works ect. Don't get me wrong I do not want to bad mouth her but I do not like dishonesty. After all this I have shoot remoteness weddings whit her, and about 50% of them shes late to, shes good in what she does but brides contact me as they do not get hold of her and they wait months for their photos full of empty promises saying she will deliver withing this week and never deliver. She did the same to me with payment after this, she will say she will pay me the full amount she owes me and weeks later nothing, her excuse is and I quote "you know I'm sick and that I forget things and you should remind me." So this works once but saying this to me every time is not going to fly. I send her reminders, emails, messages and call her every day and no pay. I have seen her make double bookings, then she tells me the bride knows and I should meet her for the engagement shoot an hour before the shoot she does not feel well I should do the shoot. When I get there the bride thinks I'm Zeone and have heard nothing about me doing her wedding as well. Another bride last year: Two months before the wedding she asks me to cover the wedding due to it being her birthday and she does not want to work on her birth day ( then do not book a wedding). I have asked her every week if she has told the bride yet that I will be doing the wedding and every day pf the week before the wedding. I asked her to pay me as she gave the entire wedding to me and said she will pay me the R6000 (50% that the clients have payed her for the wedding) so I can book gear for the video. Every day she said she will pay and the wedding is past she still owes me the money, the bride has payed me the remaining 50% already but still nothing from Zeone. The day before the wedding she contacts the bride letting her know shes sick, (shes not sick its her birthday) and she is booked off I have covered that days wedding (Friday) and the next day (hers the Saturday bride on Zeone's Birthday) due to her being booked off by the doctor. In fact the previous day she had a double booking I did the one and she the other, but she tells the Saturday bride that I have covered Fridays wedding as well (lies its a double booking). I have not received any payment yet from her. On the Saturday at the wedding that she canceled the day before the wedding I heard from one of the grooms men the same happened to him and and one of his friends with Zeone ( June & July). He told me she send someone ells some one better (witch I know is not the truth as this guy learned from her and his just starting out as well coz I know him). She gives all her clients canvas print to apologies, but this same canvas she gives to all her brides. To tell them she really liked them. (to those she did do the job properly with.) So today 29 Jan 2018 after 43 days of payment being late and promise every time I do get a hold of her that she will pay that day and still no payment, after 21 email reminders from my invoice app and 2 separate emails, after nearly 40 calls no payment still. I have bills to pay and she goes on holiday telling me that she has no money and waiting for brides to pay me before she can pay me. LIES!!!! I then emailed reminder her today, called her and messaged her, now she tells me she did pay (no payment received) and that she will no longer do business with me because I lie and miss use her. I would like to let all the brides this, if she does this to someone that works for her, she will do the same to you. Her brides contact me asking for photos. Unfortunately I can not help even if I wanted to. I do not want to associate my name with her as this will give me a bad image. Please do your research. I do beg you I have first hand experience. Shes sick but go to the Maldives pays R90 000 for her holiday and buying new leather couches and revamping her little house but she cant pay me. Shes "sick" but go to Cape Town and swims and jols and drinks and can't shoot weddings because she's sick. This is not to bad mouth her or damage her business or steal her brides or get her bookings or anything like that, this is to warn brides as I have been a bride my self and know the stress, I have had bad suppliers my self and I would like to prevent this for you. Please please please be careful.
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100 months ago
Scam
The do not deliver after paying for the goods the start to ignore my emails and refuse to pay back my money. I emailed after late delivery and they kept on saying call the post office which I did and no answer, so I mailed them to tell them this and after I started asking for my money back they ignore me, I have asked them on there social media platforms and they ignore them so stay away!!!!
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