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Posted by: Roger (66.108.246.108) on May 28, 2003 at 07:12:12

Location: NYC

In Reply to: models needed posted by Royce on May 27, 2003 at 22:04:23:

Is it something in the water? For the last several years all these types of nutty scams have been online "scouting services" that were clamoring to take your money for the chance at "exposure". The expensive old way (putting pictures in paper books or magazines) had pretty much gone away.

Now suddenly it seems to be having a resurgence. Just a couple of weeks ago some guy hawking his "Faces of the Future" magazine was posting ads something like this one. Now we have this, and it's "hardcover" no less.

All of these schemes (whether Transcontinental Talent/Emodels/Options Talent/Wilhelmina Scouting) or any of their online or paper counterparts operate on the same flawed premise. They would have you believe that there are casting directors and agencies waiting breathlessly for the next opportunity to find a model online or, in this case, in a book.

For only a few hundred dollars or so.

Here's a clue: it ain't so.

The problem is that every once in a very, very long while someone actually gets bored enough to look in the things, they find a model actually worth seeing, and that rare person has some success. The chances are roughly the same as a person getting struck by lightning while going to the lottery office to cash in their winning ticket - but when it happens, these promoters use it to trumpet the success of their system.

Here, for instance, we see "Royce" telling us all about the excellent quality of images he wants so his book will have "credibility". What we don't see is Royce telling us that the models have to actually look like models, or have models' height and stats. Why? Because lots and lots of people who don't have those looks, height and stats have checkbooks. And nothing gives you more credibility than writing a check.

There are lots of ways to come to the attention of an agency, but using one of these expensive approaches is among the worst.

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: Is it something in the water?  For the last several years all these types of nutty scams have been online "scouting services" that were clamoring to take your money for the chance at "exposure".  The expensive old way (putting pictures in paper books or magazines) had pretty much gone away.  

: Now suddenly it seems to be having a resurgence.  Just a couple of weeks ago some guy hawking his "Faces of the Future" magazine was posting ads something like this one.  Now we have this, and it's "hardcover" no less.

: All of these schemes (whether Transcontinental Talent/Emodels/Options Talent/Wilhelmina Scouting) or any of their online or paper counterparts operate on the same flawed premise.  They would have you believe that there are casting directors and agencies waiting breathlessly for the next opportunity to find a model online or, in this case, in a book.

: For only a few hundred dollars or so.

: Here's a clue:  it ain't so.

: The problem is that every once in a very, very long while someone actually gets bored enough to look in the things, they find a model actually worth seeing, and that rare person has some success.  The chances are roughly the same as a person getting struck by lightning while going to the lottery office to cash in their winning ticket - but when it happens, these promoters use it to trumpet the success of their system.

: Here, for instance, we see "Royce" telling us all about the excellent quality of images he wants so his book will have "credibility".  What we don't see is Royce telling us that the models have to actually look like models, or have models' height and stats.  Why?  Because lots and lots of people who don't have those looks, height and stats have checkbooks.  And <u>nothing</u> gives you more credibility than writing a check.

: There are lots of ways to come to the attention of an agency, but using one of these expensive approaches is among the worst.


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