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I was charged NT$15,000, which I have already paid in full. If any of this is untrue, the company is welcome to sue me.
Simply put, as others have said, photographing one outfit costs 800, and five outfits cost 4,000. I was also prepared to provide my own clothes, but the company said the photos would look better if they used theirs.
Various printing fees—for business cards, photos, and so on—were supposed to total NT$60,000. The company also said that if I changed my mind, it would be fine, and that I only needed to pay NT$15,000 for the photos taken that day. (On a CD.) When I took out my credit card, the staff quickly took it away to run the charge. When they found that they couldn't charge NT$15,000, they even told me to contact the bank.
The reason I was foolish enough to be deceived at the time was that I was exhausted after working 12 hours. I went there right after getting off work, and agreed to everything without thinking. The conversations between the female and male employees were extremely disgusting.
Female employee A: What should I do? My boyfriend's mother told my boyfriend to break up with me! Because I got pregnant and had an abortion, got pregnant and had an abortion.
Female employee B: Your boyfriend's mom is really sticking her nose into other people's business! You did absolutely nothing wrong; what's the big deal about this kind of thing! She must have nothing better to do &_%√€£¢
Male employee A: (walking over and saying) I think all the women in Taiwan should be just like you!
%%%Putting aside the absurd cycle of having unprotected sex, repeatedly getting pregnant, and having abortions, the coworkers even supported it. And rather than the male coworker saying, “Don't chat during work!” he said that all women in Taiwan should be like that. What kind of workplace is this? It's terrifying!
The main reason I'm still holding a grudge is that I was charged NT$15,000. I only found this webpage after being charged, and I was so upset I could have cried. To prevent more people from becoming victims, I decided to post this! Incidentally, not long after they deceived me, they “closed” the job-recruitment webpage.
After some time, I imagine they'll use the same trick again. On the day they successfully deceived me, the female employee was eating McDonald's! Countless men and women went into the boss's office and then rushed back out; I figure they couldn't get their money back and, like me, left angrily ^_^
The boss did explain things in detail, that's true. But there was a lot of basic sweet-talking and exaggeration. One photo costs 3 yuan, so 100 photos would only be 300 yuan—where did printing fees of 60,000 come from? They also said they would distribute them to major companies for promotion, so they needed a lot of copies, roughly a whole disc. But could printing really cost as much as 60,000?
In short, they painted a very grand picture, but the detailed explanation was too vague. When I went to the police station to report it, the police even spoke on their behalf, saying, “But didn't you receive the CD files? Then it doesn't count as fraud, right?” What kind of crazy thing is that to say, officer? Do you want me to take a few photos of you and then charge you NT$15,000?
This is the most damnable blunder of my life so far. It isn't the first time I've been deceived, but this is a record-high amount, right? I hope this company gets reported in the news soon and can no longer scam anyone else.
To add: someone mentioned that one photo costs 7 yuan and postage costs 32 yuan; that's true. There were also various other miscellaneous charges on-site! It's that clothing fee of 800 per outfit.
Originally, they wanted to charge NT$60,000, but fortunately I had a spending limit set. Otherwise, three months of my salary would have vanished.
Although I was still deceived, I thought it would be good to post this as a warning to everyone. Charging you NT$60,000 before you even have a job is also ridiculous.