Amine

(English below)

Bonjour a tous!

Alors oui, vu les notes que nous avons donnees, nous sommes tombes de haut

Nous allons donc les justifier en detaillant notre mesaventure avec Younes.

Tout d’abord, je tiens à vous signaler que nous sommes un couple mixe franco-japonais et que nous vivons a Tokyo. Nous allons néanmoins nous marier en France aussi.

 Pour ce faire nous avons entamer les démarches il y a plus de 6 mois pour la recherche d’un photographe.

 Nous en avons vu beaucoup et notre choix s’est finalement porte sur Younes Elm.

 Vivants a Tokyo, nous avons organiser des sessions Skype ainsi que des questionnaires.

 Nous nous sommes également rendu en France pour le rencontrer et finaliser notre démarche.

Le rendez-vous s’est très bien passe.

Quelques jours plus tard, Younes nous a fourni un devis actualise. Hors il s’avère que nous repartions justement pour le Japon et n’avions pas le temps de le voir en pensions pouvoir nous en occuper le weekend venu.

Sauf que, sans aucune notice préalable, Younes nous a laissé tomber.

Alors que nous avons passé du temps (plus de 6 mois), alors que nous avons éliminé plusieurs très bons photographes pour se concentrer sur lui, alors que nous sommes allés en France pour le rencontrer depuis le Japon ( !!), alors que tout s’est bien passe lors de notre rendez-vous, alors qu’il nous a rien dit au préalable, 4 jours après l’émission de son devis, il nous dit qu’il ne lui sera pas possible d’honorer sa promesse.

J’ai même eu honte de l’avoir proposer à ma future femme qui voulait faire venir du Japon un photographe professionnel.

Du point de vue professionnel, c’est affligeant de ne pas etre capable de tenir sa parole. D’autant plus que travailler avec l’étranger veut dire des délais plus longs et là il ne nous laisse pas 4 jours, il ne nous donne aucune alternative et nous fait juste faux bon. Quelle déception !!

Du point de vue légal, un devis annule en 4 jours, je ne sais pas si c'est tres possible...

Du point de vue personnel, plus qu’une déception, c’est une déchirure car nous lui faisions confiance et n’avions aucun plan B.

L'equipe Zankyou en a d'ailleurs ete informee.

Pour toutes ces raisons, nous ne pouvons le conseiller.

Dear everyone,

We would like to let you know about  a misadventure we have faced with Younes.

First, we would like to let you know that we are a mixed couple (French - Japanese) and that we are living in Tokyo. Nevertheless, we are planning a wedding in France as well. 

In order to do so and since we are living far with very few chances to come all the way from Japan to Europe, we have started most of the service providers selection more than 6 months ago (for a wedding planned in Sept), including the photographers. Although we have considered many, both international and French ones, our choice came upon Younes Elm. 

Since we are living in Tokyo, we have organized several Skype sessions and questionnaires to make sure we picked up the right one. We finally met in France in early January and the meeting went very well. 

A few days later, Younes has updated his quotation. Since it was right at the time we were supposed to leave France to go back to Japan we didnt have the time to look the details and wanted to finalize it all during the weekend. 

However, without any kind of prior communication, Younes abruptly cancelled it all, leaving us nothing, no chances for him to come back on hi decision, no alternative, nothing.

Although we have spent so much time on it (6 months+), although we have discarded many great photographers to concentrate on him, although we went all the way to France from Japan to meet with him (!!), although everything went well during the meeting, although absolutely no element could make us even think he could do such a thing, not even 4 days after he sent us his updated quotation, he ccancelled it all and tells us he won't be able to be our photographer. 

I became even ashame vis-a-vis my future wife to have proposed him while she wanted to have someone from her own network in Japan to come to cover our wedding because he had such good recommentations including yours.

From a professional viewpoint, it is so disappointing not to have someone being able to keep his words. Moreover a platform such as yours should know that working with foreign nationals takes some more time (although we didnt have even 4 days!) and leaving us with no plan B is beyond understading.
From a legal viewpoint, I dont think it is possible to cancel just like that a quotation without giving us any kind of info beforehand.

Finally fron a personal viewpoint, he broke all the trust I had in him. My Japanese future wife also think it is unbelievable and shows how low in standards he can be.

The Zankyou team has also be informed.

For all these reqasons we cannot recommend him.