Acting : Baltic casting agency by Michael Green

I hear you.

This seems to be a policy with alot of creative agencies, its like "pay to display".

I can open an agency like this as well....I have exchanged few emails with one of the "agent"...she was fighting back so hard and so quickly that I knew it s a scam. ....I asked her 3 times if she has no shame ....horrible. ..WE HAVE TO HELP EACH OTHER GUYS AND GALS

This is not a dating agency. ..I can pay but AFTER you have gotten me a job. ..promisses promisses. ..and so many people fall for it

What about Spotlight? Is that a scam?

Spotlight is not a talent agency. ..it's a Web page with auditions

Any agency in any performing capacity that requires you to pay ANY money at all to them other than 10% percentage of your earnings once you sign a contract, etc and BOOK a paying job is a SCAM. Don't go near them. There are many amazing legit agencies out there that can assist with your career and would never ask for a penny from you.

Don't waste your time with these people or anyone else that wants a "fee"

Hi Andrew Bruce Lockhart - pardon the quick reply. I have a US-centric and Hollywood-centric orientation. Here, the SAG-AFTRA franchise agreement is our "gold standard" so to speak, or at the very least, it's a yardstick that can be used to measure non-SAG agreements. SAG rules cap agents' commissions at 10%, and agents are not allowed to take other fees. Therefore, if you are coming from a Hollywood orientation, you see agents who try to take fees in excess of what SAG allows as abusive, egregious, unethical, etc. I'm sure that other localities have their own standards, but many of us tend to use SAG's rules as a lens. In terms of writers who pay to pitch at pitch fests, they're paying for a meeting - not for representation. Actors can pay to attend workshops and "meet and greets." In both cases, paying a fee for a meeting is acceptable in the rules, but paying to be represented is against the rules, and viewed as unethical because of how labor rules are set up in California.

Yes, Andrew. I saw your point about a "double standard," and I wanted to speak to that from my admittedly very US-centric perspective.

I was just sent an email from them for a job that I did not apply for It is really weird Has anyone ever worked with these people?