Infinite Talent USA, OptionsTalent, EModel, Heather Duback, Rachel Skirving, Vonda Love modeling agency ripoff. They give you high hopes, charge you for pictures then they never return calls and send bogus job offers. Bellevue,Washington, Portland, Oregon, Laguna, California

Infinite Talent LLC (infinitetalentusa.com)
According to their website, Infinite Talent LLC operates in Oregon and Washington, and now California. The emphasis of their site was "high fashion" photography: "We are NOT a modeling school and do not require our models take classes. To get involved in the industry, you will need to have the proper high fashion photos. If you do not already have these, you will need to get them upon acceptance."

Well, they accept anyone with a credit card or $675-$975. In other words, they had me get a portfolio, and then for an additional $30 a month, they send you bogus e-mails for cosmetic counter "perfume spayer girl" jobs that pay $8-10 p/hr. If I had "googled" their name in the first place, and had found what I read on Rip-Off Report.com, I would have saved the money.

The ad they put on Jurgita.com says, "Agency specializes in catalog, editorial, runway, showroom, fitness, fit, product modeling, lifestyle modeling, corporate modeling, product demo, trade show, lingerie/swimsuit". I thought they were not an agency, or so Heather said. Then what are they? Even the "scout" couldn't give me a straight answer. Just high pressure sales to fork over the cash in a "presentation by our senior dirctor".

Once they have the money you never hear from them again, other than the silly "jobs" that even their staff knew nothing about. I guess it is hard to keep your story straight. What happened to the phone number at their Portland office, well it is closed and now they are setting up shop in Laguna, CA. When I called Vonda for contact info about my "e-mailed jobs" in Seattle all I got was an answering machine for a week. She never called back and I gave up. Business must be great.

http://www.infinitetalentusa.com/faq/index.xhtml [Aug. 5, 2004]. But they didn't say if any of their models have received high fashion modeling jobs. Agency specializes in catalog, editorial, runway, showroom, fitness, fit, product modeling, lifestyle modeling, corporate modeling, product demo, trade show, lingerie/swimsuit, lingerie/swimsuit. The only thing they left out was modeling in Iraq.

According to a few sources, including the BBB and a consumer complaint website, Infinite Talent is run by former workers/leaders of the infamous Wilhelmina Scouting Network (Heather Duback, Rachel Skirving and Vonda Love) scam which misled consumers about the value of their internet advertising service and misled them into buying professional photography before getting agency representation and did not pay their workers ("scouts").

California
23332 mill creek dr
suite 230
Laguna, CA 92653
phone: 949.460.4522

Oregon
20811 nw cornell rd
suite 300
hillsboro, OR 97124

Washington
1200 112th ave ne
suite c-245
Bellevue, WA 98004
phone: 425.451.9006


Julie
Tacoma, Washington
U.S.A.