Complaint Review: Next Talent Agency

We saw on facebook or recieved a mass emailing that NEXT talent agency was comimg and holding auditions for commercials or Talent. Their big claim was that they represented all these famous stars like Jessie and Austin and Ally and they used all these peoples names but in retrospect they didn't ever actually SAY that they represented them so THEY are very savvy in their wording to avoid fraud charges. It was very misleading when you listen to their presentation if you go the first time listen carefully cuz you'll see them say, " you know these guys you know these guys you know these guys you know Disney" but they never say we represent these people. Secondly they are very Hokie. their presentation is done from a laptop and a PowerPoint and some guy that's supposed to be an actor but he's been killed in every production coincidentally. So the next day we get an email stating that we received a call back as has been stated probably everyone gets the same email then we get a phone call asking if we're going to be able to make our time slot and I said I need to talk about it with my daughter and think about it and read the email because I had just gotten the email stating that. Then I read in the email that they wanted to charge me a hundred and something $150 for training if my child was not experienced enough or didn't have enough experience.

From the reports of others here that's just the email . the reports of others here are that when you get to the second casting call and they tell your child that they've been accepted for the Showcase that's when they hit you with the $500 or $3,000 packages I guess depending on how much they think you look like you can afford. let me just tell you clearly talent agencies DO NOT charge money upfront for services. Not for training, nothing. Talent agents make a percentage of whatever jobs they booked for you. They are a COMMISSION BASED ORGANIZATION .You don't pay for acting training you don't pay for this or that you go find a photographer and get a headshot and you go around to talent agencies (legitimate ones) in California or wherever and you find one that's willing to take you on like wilhemina models and then they it's up to them to book you jobs. they get paid on commission just like other commission-based jobs. They get paid a percentage of what you make when they book you a job you do not pay them a fee. These people are ruthless frauds who prey on the dreams of children who have no conscience and no length or depth to the measures to which they will lie and to make themselves look good I'm sure and all their language they're very careful not to say anything that can be construed as fraud which is why they haven't been prosecuted yet.

For example they never said that they represented Jesse or Austin & Ally or anything like that they just say you know shows like Disney and Jessie and you all know all these people yeah well they didn't say they represented those people. They use those people as examples of shows that kids know to get them hyped and excited as if they have something to do with that which they don't. So just don't fall prey to it don't put your child through that because you're going to end up at some point having to break it to your child that they can't go any further because you don't have $3,000 and like they've said in other reviews you're going to be the bad guy and it's going to be very disappointing to your child. fortunately for my child this was just a fluke to try it out and see what it was like so she didn't really care one way or another she was a little disappointed but she wasn't crushed but there are children who dream about this and when their parents can't afford to get them into the Showcase or whatever they are crushed and devastated. These people are a scam a hoax and a fraud do your research and do not participate in thier supposedly agency