Nine9

No customer service. Just care about wasting your money. No real guidance getting into the industry. Superficial salesperson that sell you a dream, website is outdated and hard to use to get castings, I really dislike this organization and the people behind it.

An agency do not require to pay upfront. They get money if you get money. (see picture)
I've done several like this one, and I'm telling you it's a SCAM.
I'm pretty sure those who wrote good review here are paid by them to do it.
It's very sad, the lady seems super nice, it's a shame they use people naiveness to get money...

They got me on a group zoom and sent me a link to Register for $90 one time payment plus $30 something a monthly fee.
I told them let me sleep on it before I decide to join or not...they told me the link expires a midnight that same day.

They lost me right there...nothing legit has an expiration date to register.
If I putting my money down I want to be able to choose when I do that.

To all aspiring actors. Agency's work for you, they get paid when you get paid. You never pay an agency. Never! This is the oldest scam and still works because people give them money. I'll say it one more time. You never,ever pay an agency upfront until you land a job... Call any successful agency in LA and NYC, they will tell you the same, so stop giving them money.

I've been in phone sales all my life. Many Americans are scammed out of their money I've seen it a lot but this time they were going to get me. I believe I had my blinders on because the goal of getting on American idol. She mentioned it in the beginning of the call and so I think the passion everybody has of becoming an actor in a star shuts down that part of your brain that's supposed to say don't do it. Instead it touches that button of oh my gosh I might actually get on the show. My good friend said well just Google her first make it sure before you send any money I said I will do and thank God I did. Thanks for everybody's reviews it saved me money.

THEY CAME OUT ON VICE! And set my boy Taji for failure

They pay so much for advertising!
Def quantity over quality. They don't care who's on the call.
They say it's a casting call yet it's not. It's more of a scam tbh. If you're running a business how are you not seeing who you're interviewing? How do you not pick and choose who you want? I've been to casting calls and this ain't it lol
Steps
1) pitch you a 20min video
2) then they explain pricing ( they will hit you with the " oh Covid affected us all so we dropped the price 400$)
3) then while your on the call they will have you pay the fees. And will call out random names acting like people paid but I'm reality it's their own people.

I am currently on their 'onboarding' call and I listened the whole time and never once did she mention anything about pricing, and when i sent a question in the chat asking about the pricing and if they require it up front or if I can wait until I get my first gig before committing to them, her response was that she already gave that information in the video call. I replied that I heard the whole thing and never heard any pricing amount (cuz i WAS listening to that to see if it was legit or not). She AGAIN just replied that she already gave me that information and doesn't understand my question...which was if there was an option for a month trial or a way to make sure I'm getting work before paying...so it clearly was the typical political non-answer answer. She gave me a number to call, so I'll see if they do the same thing and continue the non-answer answers which will tell me to not waste my money and just stick with a Backstage account, as I have gotten lots of work from that to more than make up for the $199 yearly Backstage costs. They will be charging $500 a year plus the $100 for doing essentially the same thing Backstage does for me but perhaps a little more personal touch, so could be worth it ONLY if I was able to see that I WILL be able to get work through them to cover and go beyond the cost to them yearly. I could see it being a really good system and for the cost and what they claim they could do, as long as i'm making at least triple a year of their total costs through work they get me, would I be on board with it and see the value. But I don't think it's fair to ask up front and not be certain. Even Backstage offers a 75% discount to new members for 3-6 months (depending on the deal at the time) so you can test them out before comitting to their full price.

Please read reviews on companies before you send them money. I was on the zoom call with them and everything is too sketchy, so I googled their reviews and too much negative came up. Neon red flag!
Reading is fundamental. Read reviews in depth before sending money to these companies. They shouldn't be asking for money up front before they do anything to help you. That's a dead giveaway that it's a scam.
I thank God I didn't fall for it.

All they do is talk about how to be an actor, model, etc.
They ask 100 up front then ask you to pay monthly during this crisis here in the USA like rent and food like bruh we struggling to pay already lie about getting paid at least around 500 for jobs for acting, not a single one opend up, im already struggling to get money and hoping this would pay the bills, not worth it.

Hi! I'm writing this because the way they took my money was not fair I joined on Thursday or Friday of May which was maybe like the 18th or 19th and they said that my money is not refundable. I told him I needed an operation and could not continue. That was so unfair so please do not give them your money.