me voy wrote:
Isn't so annoying when a retoucher sends you a FR and as soon as you accept, they follow with a price list and ask for work? Most of them are far away and I have better skills than they do. Just a little rant.

+1

Though this is ostensibly "Where professional models meet model photographers," the announcements, at any given time are about 40% retouchers.

me voy wrote:
Isn't so annoying when a retoucher sends you a FR and as soon as you accept, they follow with a price list and ask for work? Most of them are far away and I have better skills than they do. Just a little rant.

Perhaps you shouldn't accept friend requests from retouchers?

Frozen Instant Imagery wrote:

Perhaps you shouldn't accept friend requests from retouchers?

This. I just go to their page and block them now.

I had one retoucher re-contact me 2 times after I denied them, that's when I started just blocking them from the get-go.

Hungry dogs can hang around somebody else's doorstep.

AG_Boston wrote:
It is annoying. I went as far as to write on my profile page that I don't want re-touch services. I've started emailing re-touchers a list of licensing costs when they've sent me a list of re-touch prices. For the most parts, I don't get bothered anymore.

I did the same, but it doesn't seem to help.  None of them read profiles, even though I basically tell everyone on my profile page that I don't want to hire them (models and retouchers both).

Doesn't seem to help much.  The retouchers that do this, it seems, just click on the FR button with abandon.