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They've already taken $100 away from me
Please don't use this site. Always research before your paying for something important. I'm 14 and payed with my debit card. They have that information. They've already taken $100 away from me. Who does that to a young inspiring model? And who knows if they'll charge more. I only got the 3 day trial but the made me pay for a full year. Now when I try to go on the site it doesn't exist. I'm very disappointed in people.
Fraud/Scam
I signed up for the free membership. Well, to discover that I pretty much couldn't do anything unless I upgraded and paid for a membership. At this point I decided to do some research on the company. Finding out they were a scam, I emailed them asking about the references to them a scam and listed with the BBB as an advertising company and not actually talent scouts. They never responded to my inquiry... they simply just cancelled my profile! That right there tells me they are a scam! They won't even explain their side, they just simply deleted me! They probably did this to keep me from getting word to other Standard members before they proceeded to giving them money for a Gold Membership.
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bbb rating
Anybody who takes a trip to the bbb website and researches this company will know, this is not a talent agency and that it is listed as an advertising service. this company is a D rated company http://www.la.bbb.org/Business-Report/Talent-Hunter-100042177
and any american should know d's are barely passing, if you have been scammed by this company you should follow the like to complain to the bbb and if you havent been scammed dont risk investing your money into it. Find a good local agent that you can talk to face to face and look for fine print in all the things that they show you, or have a legal professional review it.
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Unauthorized billing
I Found talenthunter.com via internet and decided to try it out. i was doing the basic membership the one that is free, and i had gotten an email saying that they needed extras and i could make money fast. Well i went to message the person who contacted me and they said i needed to upgrade.
So i did the three day trial for $1.99. well i went to check my bank account a couple days later i was under $30.00 because they did not only take out $1.99 but also an additional amount that was 19.99. so here i am working minimum wage job that pays under ten dollars an hour and i am also being charged an extra thirty dollars for an over draft.
I am furious with their attempt to pawn themselves off as a decent talent website. i called them and they said they do not give refunds. They should put that in bold print if they are going to take out more than what it says. I am short money now and upset. I hope they get what is coming to them.
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This company is the definition of a scam. They offer you a 3- day free trial and you end up with a $29.99 monthly charge. They say you can cancel your subscription, but even after I did I kept getting billed the $29.99 for months afterwards. Even though, supposedly they sent me notices confirming my cancellation. They claim on their website that you can call 24 hours 7 days a week, but conveniently for them, every time I tried to call and dispute my charge they 'weren't available' and they have an automated message that also says 'please don't leave a voice mail just send us an e-mail.' But of course, when you send them an e-mail you never hear back from them. Conveniently, in their terms of use if you dispute a charge you are fined $100.00 plus legal fees. Stay away from this company. The services they offer aren't even up-to-date. Some of the 'audition notices' that I was sent were out-dated by two years even. They are just taking advantage of naive people who want to 'break-in' to show business. It is outrageous what they are doing. STAY AWAY from talenthunter, they are only scouting for trusting people to take advantage of, not real talent.
I would really hope that if you were any type of affiliate with Talenthunter.com-you would at the very least have someone write your emails for you. That in itself speaks volumes for me. Try taking a few basic English classes and learn to curb your desire to use vulgarity.
Respect may come your way after doing so. Good luck.
no duh your all ###ing idiots they have to pay directors to get them to put them selves on the site and that would be profit loss not to menchon paying for the site its self
so i repeat myself your all ###ING STUPID
i own the site so stop baging on it okay
I just broke off with TH, once I read the BBB rating. I also was called by the fake agency GO See G.I.F.T.S. and ask for a decision in 48 hours. Luckily my family isn't as ignorant as me and checked the BBB and they weren't registered. So, I googled to be sure and sure enough Go See G.I.F.T.S is a sham.
Though when I tried to post a comment on Talenthunter, like 'Go See GIFTS= Fraud' or saying it was a scam, my comments would not show up and I couldn't post ('shout') for another hour. TH has a filter on their words I believe to avoid their own exposure.
As for the money thing, you can keep the Standard account but eventually they will stop letting you read your messages. Luckily, to get to gold I used an American Exp. gift card that only had 8$ left on it.
I signed up with Talent Hunter.com BEFORE I did my research. I paid $149.99 so I could sign my daugther up for 6 months. I thought I was getting a good deal becuase I recieved an email from an "agent" saying that they would be interested in my daughter for a commerical that was being shot in my area (my daughter's pic wasnt even posted at the time, should had be alert number 1). I complained to Paypal and my bank that this company was a fraud.
Too make a long story short, these people WILL NOT respond to any of your requests about cancellations and refunds because they dont have too! My bank will not dispute Paypal, told me that they were untouchable. I disputed with Paypal and my claim was denied. I complained with the Better Business Buearu, still pending but Im sure that my money is gone.
People do your research please. I feel so stupid becuase I cant even get my daughters pics to even load up on their website. SO I got screwed with no protection at all! MAN!
Online fraud
Talenthunter.com is not all they are cut out to be. Yah maybe talenthunter.com is the fastest growing site for talent but some of their claims seem out there. I signed up at talenthunter.com and actually got many leads for movie extra and acting roles, but they charge a fee and I don't like that! Maybe talenthunter.com should be free, but it was how would talenthunter make its money, I guess Talent hunter has to charge a fee, maybe they aren't a scam, probably not just wanted to voice my opinion about talenthunter.com. I saw that talenthunter.com has a lot of positive reviews so maybe all the hype is wrong, actually it probably is!
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Sorry! My Apologies! This is my first time here. I did not mean to post that twice. It was an accident.
Oh, that's very nice! "Parker" is actually the owner of Talent Hunter and is posing as a customer! How pathetic is that? The very fact that the owner of the company feels he has to pose as a customer and write BS like this should tip us off that Talent Hunter.com is, in fact, a big scam!
[redacted] shows the proof that "Parker" is not an actual customer, but is, in fact, the owner of the company. And, of course, the owner of the company, Talent Hunter.com, never did reply to that. He/she is probably way too ashamed of what he/she had done and knows they were outright busted in their little lie.
It might be a scam like any other scaming co. out there, BUT it might not be... Basically, I signed up but DID NOT pay a dam penny for nothing. I refuse to pay a monthly fee just to be able to respond to an email. If you really want to try out for being an extra or what not then actually go to a place where you can see REAL people and get actual names, notnames that sound like 'John Smith' at talent hunter LOL i mean come on now! Anyway, like i said, final note is- if you want to do something like talent hunter might provide..start looking places up and bring someone with you to pesonally check them out, and ALWAYS get the full name of anyone your introduces to. ... =]
Christine
Unauthorized charges
Recently I signed my daughter up for talenthunter.com. I wanted to see what the 'Gold' membership was all about, so I took their 3 day trial offer for $1.99. On the third day I decided it wasn't worth $39.99 a month. I followed their cancellation procedure, and when I went to submit my cancellation form, their 'submit' buttons happened to just not work. So I sent them an email explaining that there was a problem with their link and that I did not want the gold membership. They never responded but of course made sure that they billed my $39.99 the very next morning! When I went to their website to get the phone number to call them, imagine that there wasn't one! I wish I would have thought to check that before hand. I am extremely mad and don't want anyone to have this happen to them!
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I kept on getting teaser emails from talent hunter.com saying I was wanted for extra parts and so on and so forth. So I decided I would take a very small risk and invest 1.99 for a week just to see what the service was like. I later did find out that it does say in small print I will be charged 19.99. However, I did not see that and thought I would be given the freedom to cancel. So I was very surprised when I received a 19.99 charge on my credit card. I was very displeased, but I thought by at least having that charge, I would be able to use their services. They said my card was declined, yet they DID charge my card. I emailed them at their support line and then at their cancellation line to which they replied we are sorry to see you go and we want to offer you a six month membership free. they give you a email to email them back for that and that comes back to me. Its non existent so I go back and re-email them and then it asks me to look at their terms of use which say in little black letters that they never issue refunds regardless of situation. SO I am basically screwed out of the money and still am unable to use their service.
Luckily I cancelled the subscription after 4 days, so they only got $39.
It is absolutely a scam in every way. The auditions and agents are fake, and they leave no contacts for complaints.
that's cool!@ SRY 2 hear that Vanessa,
here's my story
HAHAHA...i guess lot's of people who are seeking for a job would be looking for such an easy job like this.
Well, here's my story, i was in a Dunkin Donuts w/ my friend yesterday were reading newspapers looking through out all different commercials and classifieds, and i found quite few jobs there. One of them ( i assumed was a scam ) filming/casting etc. and i would ignore it, but my friend said that one of his co-workers played as an movie extras in I AM LEGEND (with WIll SMith), all she had to do is just jump and she got paid around 100$. Well, with no other thought (should have asked him more about it) i called EntertainmentWork.com for a job (funny but in the ad # had an extension ). Some guy named Peter picked up a phone and i asked him to transfer my call to that extension, first thing he said "are you calling about the ad?" i said "yes", then he asked me if i'm new, said yes. Anyway, he got my information and ... my debit card # and said that charge from the card will be taken the next day, + producer will contact me the very next day and all jobs will be around the place i live, which is non sense because its a lil unrealistic to shot anything in this area.
Well, happy minded that i will get a job now and get paid from $100 to $300 i went home, told some of my other friends and tried to Login on the web site he gave me. Guess what, it didn't work (let me try again though) ---- Invalid Signin. Please try again.-----
...rip off again, so i called my bank, cancelled my card b4 it was to late, and instead of paying $18 (or maybe even more) to those scamers i rather replace my card for $7.5.
Then i did a little research on the web and found out that EntertainmentWork is a scam and fraud as well as many other web sites. You maybe know already many web sites such as "making easy money on the web for just few hours a day", so i think its about the same way the do it here.
So people my ADVISE: go look for real job and before you sign up for any web site with promissing aBIG FUTURE to you, please do the research on the google or yahoo, there're lots of forums and articles written by other users who are been riped off.
D O N O T GIVE YOUR CREDIT CARD OR ANY DETAILED INFORMATION ON THE WEB/PHONE BEFORE YOU DO THE RESEARCH!
READ SEARCH SPEND SOME TIME BEFORE YOU REGRET WHAT YOU HAVE DONE
TNX, hope this info was useful!
P.S. i'm gonna ask my friend to find out how that girl got the role in that movie, oh btw here i found another addition to this web site http://talenthunter.wordpress.com./ seems like lots of positive replies :D hahaha
I signed up with Talent Hunter.com BEFORE I did my research. I paid $149.99 so I could sign my daugther up for 6 months. I thought I was getting a good deal becuase I recieved an email from an "agent" saying that they would be interested in my daughter for a commerical that was being shot in my area (my daughter's pic wasnt even posted at the time, should had be alert number 1). I complained to Paypal and my bank that this company was a fraud.
Too make a long story short, these people WILL NOT respond to any of your requests about cancellations and refunds because they dont have too! My bank will not dispute Paypal, told me that they were untouchable. I disputed with Paypal and my claim was denied. I complained with the Better Business Buearu, still pending but Im sure that my money is gone.
People do your research please. I feel so stupid becuase I cant even get my daughters pics to even load up on their website. SO I got screwed with no protection at all! MAN!
SCAM & they are Protected!
I signed up with Talent Hunter.com BEFORE I did my research. I paid $149.99 so I could sign my daugther up for 6 months. I thought I was getting a good deal becuase I recieved an email from an "agent" saying that they would be interested in my daughter for a commerical that was being shot in my area (my daughter's pic wasnt even posted at the time, should had be alert number 1). I complained to Paypal and my bank that this company was a fraud.
Too make a long story short, these people WILL NOT respond to any of your requests about cancellations and refunds because they dont have too! My bank will not dispute Paypal, told me that they were untouchable. I disputed with Paypal and my claim was denied. I complained with the Better Business Buearu, still pending but Im sure that my money is gone.
People do your research please. I feel so stupid becuase I cant even get my daughters pics to even load up on their website. SO I got screwed with no protection at all! MAN!
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Heres there phone number for Talenthunter.com Pass it around>>>>>>>>Jacob [protected]
rip off
I had recieved a letter by Talent Hunter claiming that Hannah Montana casting had viewed my daughters profile but I had to pay to see the email that hannah casting had left and said that they would send me information because Brian thought she would be a good fit...only to find out that Brian is an employee of talent hunter and is not associated with Disney nor American Top Model.
There for Talent Hunter sent decieving letters to me and hundreds of other hopefulls claiming things that arn't true.
All I wanted was my money back because the trust had been broken. But knowone has responded back to me or has called me back to resolve this... This is not good customer service.
They got me for $100 which I would not of done if they had told me that one of their employees liked my daughters profile...So, no Talent hunter is deceiving and a ripoff and so far the only company that had pulled the casting directors email scam.
and to top it all off they cancelled me and kept all my money too.
just an update. After BBB got involved Talent Hunter did refund me quicky. I admit that I may have come down hard on Talenthunter but still stick with the belief they need to quit sending emails to people stating Hannah Montanna or any other big names have viewed there file...when they haven't, because I still wouldn't have signed up if I knew who was writing was just a talent hunter employee and not associated with the Hannah Montanna casting.
I still feel, they take advantage of peole that are new trying to break into the business, but have to be glad to find out because I wouldn't have done the research I have done since then. Brian had given me a address I already had that I gotten for free in the first place.
My advice is start researching before you jump into anyone of these type of sites. Most casting directors go through agents and don't go on looking at profiles from what I read neither do Agents. They have there own special places they hang out on the net.
by the way everyone needs to complain to the Better Business Buerur (BBB)
with enough complaints They will investigate TALENT HUNTER
Talent Hunter is the biggest scam artist around...yeap you enter as a STANDARD MEMBER, GET AUDTIONS OUT THE YING YANG...CAN'T RESPOND BECOME GOLD MEMBER...NOTHING EVER...SENT IN OVER 400+ AUDITIONS...
THEN I ASKED TO HAVE MY ACCOUNT CANCELLED AND MONIES OF REMAINING REFUNDED TO MY ACCOUNT...NO REFUND BUT ACCOUNT CANCELLED...
THERE FOR FILED COMPAINT W/ BBB. ATTORNEY GENERAL OFFICE IN CALIFORNIA...AND IN MY STATE...IS IT NOT FRAUD WHEN SOME ONE TAKES MONEY AND CLOSES OUT YOUR ACCOUNT FIRST.?
i agree talent hunter is a rip-off...think about it! Everyone is not cut out for acting and modeling so how is everyone on the website getting auditions? Sounds fake to me People pay their money and get fake emails then post testamonies to find out the person they were emailing wont email back... And the thing that gets me is why do you have to pay to even send a message? sounds like bull crap. . .DONT DO IT!
Talenthunter is such a fraud! They quote on quote "we will get u to all th casting directors" ...oh ok sure to all of u for such a ripoff! DO NOT give them ur credit card number or they will just keep charging it again and again! STOP BEFORE U BUY TALENTHUNTER WHAT A RIP OFF LIKE JOHN CASABLANCA! i want to act so bad but everything is a ripoff!
-ansley
poor u guys, sry to hear about yr rip offs
here's my lil story
HAHAHA...i guess lot's of people who are seeking for a job would be looking for such an easy job like this.
Well, here's my story, i was in a Dunkin Donuts w/ my friend yesterday were reading newspapers looking through out all different commercials and classifieds, and i found quite few jobs there. One of them ( i assumed was a scam ) filming/casting etc. and i would ignore it, but my friend said that one of his co-workers played as an movie extras in I AM LEGEND (with WIll SMith), all she had to do is just jump and she got paid around 100$. Well, with no other thought (should have asked him more about it) i called EntertainmentWork.com for a job (funny but in the ad # had an extension ). Some guy named Peter picked up a phone and i asked him to transfer my call to that extension, first thing he said "are you calling about the ad?" i said "yes", then he asked me if i'm new, said yes. Anyway, he got my information and ... my debit card # and said that charge from the card will be taken the next day, + producer will contact me the very next day and all jobs will be around the place i live, which is non sense because its a lil unrealistic to shot anything in this area.
Well, happy minded that i will get a job now and get paid from $100 to $300 i went home, told some of my other friends and tried to Login on the web site he gave me. Guess what, it didn't work (let me try again though) ---- Invalid Signin. Please try again.-----
...rip off again, so i called my bank, cancelled my card b4 it was to late, and instead of paying $18 (or maybe even more) to those scamers i rather replace my card for $7.5.
Then i did a little research on the web and found out that EntertainmentWork is a scam and fraud as well as many other web sites. You maybe know already many web sites such as "making easy money on the web for just few hours a day", so i think its about the same way the do it here.
So people my ADVISE: go look for real job and before you sign up for any web site with promissing aBIG FUTURE to you, please do the research on the google or yahoo, there're lots of forums and articles written by other users who are been riped off.
D O N O T GIVE YOUR CREDIT CARD OR ANY DETAILED INFORMATION ON THE WEB/PHONE BEFORE YOU DO THE RESEARCH!
READ SEARCH SPEND SOME TIME BEFORE YOU REGRET WHAT YOU HAVE DONE
TNX, hope this info was useful!
P.S. i'm gonna ask my friend to find out how that girl got the role in that movie, oh btw here i found another addition to this web site http://talenthunter.wordpress.com./ seems like lots of positive replies :D hahaha
I signed up with Talent Hunter.com BEFORE I did my research. I paid $149.99 so I could sign my daugther up for 6 months. I thought I was getting a good deal becuase I recieved an email from an "agent" saying that they would be interested in my daughter for a commerical that was being shot in my area (my daughter's pic wasnt even posted at the time, should had be alert number 1). I complained to Paypal and my bank that this company was a fraud.
Too make a long story short, these people WILL NOT respond to any of your requests about cancellations and refunds because they dont have too! My bank will not dispute Paypal, told me that they were untouchable. I disputed with Paypal and my claim was denied. I complained with the Better Business Buearu, still pending but Im sure that my money is gone.
People do your research please. I feel so stupid becuase I cant even get my daughters pics to even load up on their website. SO I got screwed with no protection at all! MAN!
Thank you call for the input, this really helped me, this is just like Barbizon or John Casablancas
Here is what happened to me.
I made a profile and posted.
Within a week, I got an e-mail from a "scout" saying:
I have an audition for you that is looking for your specific type. It is a movie extra role looking for *******(city where I live) talent. This is a paid gig and food will be provided during the shoot.It is important that we submit you to this project as soon as possible. Get back to me immediatly so we can get started.
Jenny
In order to reply to this scout, I needed to be a paid member. There is 3 days trial membership for $1.99 so I was just curious, I registered and replied to this woman at the same time.
At the 3rd day, I didn't get any response from her so I requested to cancel the membership.
It was very easy to cancel, but it looks like 3 days grace priod, my membership remianed another 2days, which passed the first 3days traial, I was charged a full month of memberhip.
It's been a few weeks but I still haven't received any response from this woman.
So this "scout" might be a dammy. Just sending e-mails to newbies and collect membership fees.
So, if you call it a scam, I guess you can.
I am living in a small market, so there aren't a whole a lot of opportunities anyway, so this type of services won't work.
Stick with my locat agents is much effective. So it is up to you whether believing this services or not.
This site is a COMPLETE SCAM. THey make money off Wanabe's!
You CANNOT GET A REAL JOB this way! This is not how the industry works!
People are so niave!
First you have to get and agent, How do you get an agent? Fist you need training, they you need to do LOT of stuff you WONT get paid for, just to get your self on Film, then If you're lucky you might get a paid job, or a student film, or something, thats a little more professional, then continue with your training, while you submit to to agents, and most of them will turn you down.
ALSO You can only get LOCAL jobs, uless you poop gold nuggets No one from LA is going to hire someone they never heard of from Nowheresville USA!
Fraud & scam
I received a couple of messages from talent hunter that a casting director wanted me to audition. However, when I tried to respond to the message, talenthunter said I had to be a gold member. Well in order to become a gold member you have to pay. So I signed up for the three day trial membership. After an hour of looking through a poor structured website, I decided to cancel my membership.
I emailed [protected]@talenthunter.com and did not receive an email back to show that my account was canceled. So I emailed [protected]@talentHunter.com and told them if they take money out of my account after three days that i would report them as fraud and have my friend in the government track their site. Nevertheless, I canceled my card to keep them from taking additional money out of my account and i advise people not to sign up!
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I got an email from these scamsters too and could tell immediately they were fraudsters be I actually have zero talent in anything :)
I keep canceling my subscription and they keep charging me and I am now overdrawn due to it and they should have to pay of the fees as well!
talenthunter is a scam just like exploretalent
DON'T PAY THEM ANYTHING! You should NEVER, EVER have to pay anything to an "Agent" or "Manager" until after you have been paid to be in the film or series. These people are frauds.
anybody can just tell me more about explore talent for real? i really wanna know if i should pay or not!
I signed up about a month ago and have gotten over 20 casting calls but then i relized i didnt have anything on my profile about being an actor or anything because just today i updated it..
My husband has signed up on talent hunter. He has been sent audition requests several times and Sunday you get free Gold member access. I respond and submit then. My hubby has been cast in 4 feature films and reality shows as an extra. He is now being considered for a role in upcoming movie as well as other opps.
The key is to be persistent, tune out the negative people and go for your dreams, they really can come true. It takes alot of work and a good support system to help back you up and keep you motivated. Most importantly, it takes...FAITH in yourself!
Remember, your dreams lie in you not an agent, a website or anything else. If you want it bad enough you will succeed and make it happen!
BREAK A LEG!
I tried out this company a year ago and there was a lot casting calls on this site. Those casting calls are legit, sure. But i wasn't getting that many messages. That's okay. I figured my picture wasn't attractive enough or my profile wasn't juicy enough. I cancelled the subscription not because there was a scam or anything, but because i wasn't getting much from there.
Then a funny thing happened.
After i cancelled, i've been getting more messages than EVER before. I get messages from women who look like models, industry professionals who absolutely LOVE my profile and my picture, from movies and shows. How exciting. And all i have to do is re-subscribe, get the gold membership and i'll be able to view all these wonderful messages.
You love me. YOu really love me!
What a bunch of #$($
That's my two cents and i'm sticking to it.
TALENT HUNTER IS THE WORSE WEBSITE EVER
Talent Hunter is the biggest scam and I will be turning them over to the BBB...Attorney Generals Office in Cali...and to my attorney for all funds I have paid to this site...
This is the bigges rip off I have yet to come across...
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