Submitted: Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Posted: Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Krystal Kenville
Gorham
USA
I am with the first person.
Kudos to you who have found legitimate work through this site. But I can tell you the only thing this company cares about its money.
They have no interest in protecting the actress's on their site. Actors have to pay a fee to be able to submit their information to them, or to get any sort of information.
"Agents, casting directors, producers, etc" do not have to pay to put their postings on.
I submitted to a ton of postings, not realizing this, and fell into the hands of a phony producer. They are filming many things in the Boston area, and he just seemed to be part of the pile, until I met with him.
This man has been using websites suck as exploretalent.com to lure women into sexual situations. He has been a criminal scam artist since the early eighties!
I found all of the websites he had posted on, and he was banned from 11 our of 13. The two websites I had the worst time trying to get him banned from so he wouldn't do this to more people were actorspages.com, and ofcourse exploretalent.com.
I had my own police statements, other actress's, all the information in the world, and it took me a month to finally get these business's to listen to me. I cancelled my membership in September, and JUST two days ago received a phone call from exploretalent.com 3 times in 2 hours. Saying they were in the understanding that I was upset about something, and wanted to talk about signing me back up!
Are they kidding me??????? You can look up my full report on this phony producer on this site, under My 3 Sons Productions, Mark R. Willis, Canosa Catering, Roger Williamson.
Krystal
Submitted: Tuesday, November 04, 2008
Posted: Tuesday, November 04, 2008
Silentptnr
Los Angeles
U.S.A.
Heather,
You are not stupid and many young actors and models have used Explore Talent and found success by submitting for auditions.
We apologize for your dissatisfaction with the Explore Talent service. At Explore Talent our goal is to provide you with unmatched service at an affordable price, and quality customer service. After reviewing your complaint, it is clear that you are a model looking for paying jobs. Explore Talent is proud of its ability to provide talented models like yourself with the critical information you need to get quality work. In reading your complaint, it looked as though you got a job right away that covered the cost of your membership.
At Explore Talent we make every effort to assist actors, models and musicians in getting work and improving their skill. We offer several packages designed to meet most budgets.
Explore Talent offers a free package, which includes:
· Free web hosting of your profile page – Yes
· Unlimited photo uploads to your gallery –Yes
· Unlimited video and music uploads to your gallery – Yes
Note: Most other sites charge a fee for extra photos and increased storage, Explore Talent offers these features at absolutely no cost. The only limit with our free membership is that free members cannot access contact information for the auditions and cannot submit for auditions. This is standard in the industry.
Explore Talent also offers a subscription package which includes:
· Seven day free trial of premium membership - Yes
· Free web hosting of your profile page - Yes
· Unlimited photo uploads to your gallery -Yes
· Unlimited video and music uploads to your gallery - Yes
· Unlimited access to auditions with complete information – Yes
· Unlimited submissions – Yes
· Professional color, personal business cards with color photo – Yes
· SMS messaging of matched auditions - Yes
· Explore Talent Resource Forum – Yes
Explore Talent offers four different subscription options for premium membership:
Option One:
Monthly premium membership subscription for $29.95/month billed monthly
Option Two:
3 month premium membership subscription for $69.90/quarterly billed once every three months (equal to $23.30/month or a savings of $79.80 per year off the monthly subscription)
Option Three:
6 month premium membership subscription for $119.94/semi-annually billed once every six months (equal to $19.98/month or a savings of $119.64 per year off the monthly subscription)
Option Four:
12 month premium membership subscription – $199.50/annually billed once per year (equal to $16.63/month or a savings of 159.84 per year off the monthly subscription)
Explore Talent encourages all members to take advantage of our free 7 day trial of our premium subscription service. All subscription options are recurring and require cancellation to discontinue the premium service.
Explore Talent spends hundreds of thousands of dollars building and maintaining a system designed to save members time and money. Explore Talent employs over 60 professionals with the purpose of providing members with the valuable resources needed to meet the challenging demands of the entertainment industry. Explore Talent also maintains relationships with casting directors, and provides in-house customer support to our members.
Although Explore Talent cannot create the jobs listed in our database, we do our best to provide more auditions and jobs than any other online resource. All of the auditions listed in our database are highly filtered and can be sorted based on member specifications.
Our goal at Explore Talent is to be the number one provider of auditions and industry information and resources in the United States. Explore Talent provides no other paid services, nor do we engage in selling any hard goods or photography services.
We hope we have answered your questions thoroughly. For more information, please do not hesitate to contact our office at 1-800-934-0000. We sincerely hope that you will consider our service in the future.
Sincerely,
D. George
Director of Consumer Affairs
Explore Talent
Submitted: Thursday, June 25, 2009
Posted: Monday, September 21, 2009
Oliver
Studio City
U.S.A.
My friend and I both signed up for Explore Talent. I payed attention and read the deal they offered and actually got work. Actually a lot of work. My friend who's kind of the stary eyed not so disciplined type even got a job even though he's the doesn't listen and doesn't follow up type as well. I read someone else's report and have to say that I have to give the company credit and have to say to Heather in Wisconsin - the business model and system they offer makes total sense and is was definitely not a ripoff. Her naiveness is typical of talent that gets into the business without paying attention as to what they are doing and then gets the way the business works wrong. I knew that after the tiny little 7 day period I would then have to pay to get my info to the casting people. I also put a lot of effort into the webpage and noticed others just sat back and then wondered why they weren't getting work. Also unlike Heather, I understood the submission process so that I didn't go out on anything that wasn't something i would go out on. I have also worked as a software designer and found their search engine process very easy and selective to use where as my friend cast himself in absolutely everything and didn't pay any real attention to what he was doing and how to use the site. Anyway I just had to add that since I actually like what these folks are doing and find that most people who are complaining are lazy and not paying attention to what they are getting into - which is why many actors and especially models can barely manage their own careers. So I say get it right and stop complaining about your own inability to read owners manuals or actually set that blinking 12:00 on your vcr.
Submitted: Friday, September 11, 2009
Posted: Friday, September 11, 2009
SJ00
Vancouver
USA
I didn't buy anything from them mostly because I could tell that the "casting director" and the "senior casting director" were just a couple of guys of Asian decent sitting in a call center reading a script. They didn't keep track of what little information I gave them and they had fake names. What are the odds that two Asian guys with accents so thick you can barely understand them are going to have names like "Sean" and "Eric"? Give me a break.
I played along until they started asking me for money just because I wanted to see where it went. I work in this business and I know how casting works and it isn't in this fashion. They are just preying on people. For everyone person that works I'm sure there are several who don't.
This is probably one of the most insincere offers I've ever received aside from the lies that used car salesmen are known for.
Submitted: Monday, September 21, 2009
Posted: Monday, September 21, 2009
busybaby32
Lawrence
USA
I live exploretalent.com. You have to understand the industry and how things work. The guy wasn't "preying" on her trying to push a year membership. He was being honest in saying that it takes some time to get your name out there and work up a network with people in the industry to get your career going and that takes time. You aren't going to become a well known actor in 3 months!
I have been working with them for almost a year now and I have gotten quite a bit of work and interest and been able to network with a lot of industry professionals! Something I wouldn't have been able to do being from the Midwest without them.
Thank you exploretalent!