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Originally posted by miss stone:
I belive that there are really only 4 legit services. In no particular order-
Backstage
Actor's Acess
LA Casting
Now Casting

SAG has their own casting notice site which is worthwhile checking several times a week.

Of course you must be a paid up SAG member.

I AM GETTING SCREWED OVER BY TALENTHUNTER.COM

I have been getting spammed by them forever now, and then one day I got bored so I was just scoping through their site. Fine. Then I got emails that Some producer like the way I looked, and blah blah blah.. and usually I would delete them, but whenever I got bored... yeah I would cater to my ego and look.
But everytime I would go one it would ask if I would like to upgrade to this "gold package" kind of deal and each time I would say No. But then I guess one of the times I must'ce had a slip of the finger and clicked Yes. And now, they're taking money out of my account! I never typed in my card number!! They must've gotten it from one of they colleges I applied to!! I used my card to pay for an application fee but that's all I've paid for something online..

So Now They're Screwing Me Over!!!

Hi Steffie,

I work for a bank and you should cancel the debit card and get a new one if you haven't done so all ready. Once you do that you can tell your bank there was fraudelent activity. I see this a lot.

I hope you get your money back. By the way, I recently subscribed for nycastings.com but had to cancel backstage I can't afford both at the sametime. I figured I can give it a try for 3 months. So far, I like the web page like resume you can set up and the listings provide pay amount and more commercial listings.

If you have any input about this site, let me know.

Thank you,


Barbara

uhhhh! thank god! was in the middle of getting scamed by talent hunter 4 a few week now when i found this site... and flipping out cuz i relised that i couldnt get out of it! i was writing letters to them 4 a long time lil one day i blew up!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i went on my profile and wrote all this stuff about it being a scam, and changed my picture 2 an easy butten with the word bullshit on it. lolI even put this link on my pro. and wrote "this is a scam!!" and put this link on it
the next week i was suprised to find that i couldnt use the shoutbox anymore... weird right? Yea. so the nexxt day my my membership period lapsed....

i had 2 more months.

think what u want.

btw im under the age of 18

Talent hunter: CHILD SCAMER!!!!!

Same thing as Melissa I signed up for Talent Hunter as well and it was really bad most of the auditions you have to mail your resume which if you do that you might as well go to the productions site to get the best address and not the one that's sure to see yours in the can. I signed up for explore talent as well and have had more auditions from them. In face I would get the audition information from explore talent two to six weeks earlier than Talent Hunter. Don't make my mistake.

I accidently responded to their (Actor's Club) "call" on craig's list because I thought they were going to be shooting something up here. I have to pay a "fee" to get the audition info. It was for a Robert D. film.

I got scammed by Talent Hunter, but I am not letting it get me down because even though submitting to the casting calls will not get you anything there are still casting directors addresses. Which means that you are sending your resume and headshots to actual people and not through the internet. That is exactly what The Actor Club is as well, I have not joined The Actor Club, but when you pay the $19.95 for the year subscription it tells you what roles they are casting for and when you click on the find out more info they give you the address where to send your headshot and resume. I have not decided wheather or not I want to see if The Actor Club works yet. However I do have 2 sites where I have had success in finding work and they are both free websites. The first is, www.film.org, this site is exclusivly for Philadelphia work. The other site is ,www.mandy.com, and this one is pretty much world wide.