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eModel.com Fraud Investigation ReportThere really is not a lot of work emodel has to do. Uploading a few pictures onto a website does not cost emodel a lot of money. You could probably do it in less than 5 minutes. The $20 each month charged aspiring models for the "maintenance" fee could very well be money for nothing. Why aren't the models charged only when they require maintenance? If their pictures are not changed or updated, there is no maintenance. If there is no maintenance, they pay $20 each month for nothing. Some webhosting companies charge about $20 for the setup fee of a personal website. Paying $20 every month is like paying for the setup fee every single month when the website is already set up. It makes no sense. If you are paying someone to upload one picture a month, and it takes them 1 minute, but it still costs you $20, it is like you are paying them at the rate of $1,200/hour. To upload a picture. But the obvious benefit to emodel is a revenue stream. Consistent income. A reliable source of money. If there were 10,000 aspiring models listed on emodel.com, and each of them pays $20/month, but none of them needed maintenance, they would be giving emodel.com $200,000 every month for doing absolutely nothing. That would be $1,000,000 every five months. (One television news website reported they have 25,000 models in their database, and it is not known how many if any models require maintenance each month.) On the issue of a money-back guarantee, there isn't one. There is a guarantee, and it sounds like a money-back guarantee, but it isn't a money-back guarantee. If you don't get anyone beating a path to your door, i.e., contacting you after you sign up with emodel.com, within a certain period of time, apparently they will let you have your picture in their database for free.
This emodel "guarantee" spawned sarcastic comments from at least a few people, including Dieter, who wrote:
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