emodel.com (now Options Talent) Complaints

» emodel is not up front about their prices

Ok, I just got off the phone with the director of new development after spending 35 minutes with a scout director before that, and I have to say: Emodel is a scam.

Not only do the scouts that find new models not disclose the $495 initiation fee and the $19.95 monthly fee just to have your comp card up, but nothing about this fee is discussed during the interview until the end.

What a waste.

Do yourself a favor and don't join.

The genius thing they do is pump you up on how only 2% of the people recruited make it to the interview; they then at the end will say now you might not get selected, which you do, and then only to find out that you have to pay $495 right then and there over the phone.

The funny thing was, they will only accept credit cards, and they hesitated when I said I cannot pay that amount in one shot.

Luckily I was on my cell phone with them, and got disconnected, and I quickly jumped on the net to find... all the info on this scam operation. I should have listened to advice from seasoned pros:

LEGITIMATE AGENCIES DO NOT CHARGE YOU FOR THEM TO REPRESENT YOU.

Hope this info helps other soon-to-be recruits.

I disagree that eModel hires AMATEUR recruiters to recruit models. eModel do not train or give some kind of direction to where we should go.

I mean, it's cool that we can do it our own, but if you think about it, you go up to people -- ANY people basically -- and invite them over to an office that might be two hours away without telling them that there is PRICE that they need to pay, I think is wrong.

Especially the way that we pump them up to come up to our office, and giving them hopes to be model, then rejecting them in an UNPROFESSIONAL way is sooo, soo wrong!!

A person came two hours or so. He came from Baltimore, MD, and had got recruited when he was in Philadelphia.

When he got there, 30 minutes within the presentation, he got rejected because of his smile, (he had a crooked tooth).

A professional scout will be able to see this right away. And by having this scout you can save your time and this poor guy's time for driving two hours for nothing.

At least for the first recruiting day, ONE senior scout should go with them, instead of throwing us right there in the market.

As I mentioned, eModel should say or mention about the $495 when they recruit people. It saves eModel's time and also the model's time.

I remember meeting a lady with her 6-year-old daughter that came from Lancester, PA, to our our Princeton, NJ office. Spent almost 1 1/2 hours driving, got there on time, and then found out that they have to pay $495 to start.

Emodel Controversy

"A parent is complaining about the way his daughter was approached by a new national on-line modeling agency that recently opened an office in Ridgeland. He says the sales pitch was great, but the company left out one major detail until the end."