giovedì 6 dicembre 2012

DEEP MODELS (Turkey - Istanbul)

NEVER send female models to DEEP MODELS Istanbul, they lie, dont keep agreements. One of the owners Gurkan tried to rape a models, the next morning another model left hiding at 6AM because she was afraid of this guy. This agency should NOT exist a shame for the business!


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domenica 25 novembre 2012

AGLARE MODELS (Shenzhen - China)

This agency gave us problems since the first day the model got there,not being friendly and accomodating the model.The attitude of the bookers become very childish and they didn't help at all.
The model we had with them was under salary contract and seeing that they don't have many connections with clients they forced her to do very low quality jobs paid almost nothing,from underwear events,where the model had to go around people in underwear to stay in clubs to get paid,yes they made the model work in the club!!!the model being scared for not getting her salary accomplished all the jobs until the end of the contrat,then the last day when they were supposed to pay they decided to pay the model only half of the salary.This was one of the worst experiences we had in china,the agency is very unprofessional,sneaky and dishonest.They offer very good salary for the models to get them but at the end they make them do the worst jobs just to cover it.
I really suggest you to don't work with them.

http://www.aglaremodels.com/

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martedì 20 novembre 2012

ICON MODEL AGENCY (Manila, Philippines)

ICON MODEL AGENCY (Manila, Philippines).

The problems with the payment from this agency started from the beginning. Once Icon has booked our model, they asked us as a mother agency of model to pay for the travel ticket of this model to Manila promising, that as soon as this model arrives to their agency, this amount will be returned. Well, we bought the ticket; our model arrived but we only mana
ged to get the payment for ticket back in 1 month and only after we informed the agency that the model is returning home and started to change the ticket dates. 

Only when they understood that model would be gone soon, they found the possibility to cover the debt. But the problems did not stop there. When the model finished her contract and came back home and the date of the payment approached, we found out that various staff of Icon started to come up with different stories of why they cannot make the payment: at first they said their director went to America for scouting trip, then he became ill there and was in hospital and so on and so forth.

At the end we have managed to get only 50% of the amount of the debt, the rest 50% which included the earnings of the model + the mother agency commissions still left unpaid. However Icon model agency still operates up to this day.

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PJ MODEL AGENCY (Seoul, Korea)

PJ MODEL AGENCY (Seoul, Korea), name of director: Daniel.

At first, this agency invited 3 of our models at once. 2 bedroom apartments in good condition were provided for models. The attitude towards the models was superb. There were plenty of good jobs for models. The agency even paid the mother agency commission and models payment on time. When the contract of these 3 models had finished, PJ age
ncy invited another 7 models from our agency. 

They were placed at the same 2 bedroom apartment but this time for 7 people: was definitely inconvenient, as models had to sleep by 3-4 people in each room. However the attitude towards the models still was very polite and the agency still provided lots of jobs for models. But when the time came to make the payment to Models, that is when all problems started: the director of the agency started to make the excuses due to financial difficulties it was problematic for him to make the payment. 

These excuses were given even despite of the fact that PJ still provided the jobs for models and received the payments from its clients for the jobs done by models. At the end, models finished their contracts but nobody paid them anything at all. The director promised to make the payment to all models at the day of departure of models back to their country of origin, but interestingly did not show up at work that day at all. 

1 month after, we found out that Daniel had a lavish wedding. Just for information the weddings in Seoul cost a fortune! We suppose Daniel deliberately invited many of our models at once in order to cover the bill for his luxurious wedding and he knew from the beginning that he would not pay anything. And so 7 models worked hard for 3 months to pay for his wedding!

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WIZARD MODEL AGENCY (Tokyo, Japan)

WIZARD MODEL AGENCY (Tokyo, Japan).

We have sent our model by modelling contract to Wizard model agency. Everything was ok: they paid the fee for model and mother agency commissions on time. Two months passed by and the same model informed
 us she can not continue her model career and wants to study, “as she has got the chance to study in Tokyo” and that she was planning to obtain a student visa and planning to study for a coming year. We wished her good luck.

The time passed and another model agency from Japan informed us they saw our model at the castings from Wizard. We started to investigate. Wizard totally rejected any such possibility. However, we via our contact in Japanese embassy have found out that our model went to Tokyo by working visa based on Wizard’s invitation and that there was no student visa.

And Wizard always lied to us, even more when we already had talks with this agency about sending there another of our models. For many years of working with Japan, we have never had the situation when Japanese model agency steals the model from her own mother agency and many model agencies in Tokyo were very indignant once they found out about what’s happened.

Therefore, we would like to warn all mother agencies and agents: WIZARD model agency in Japan does steal the models! Wizard agency truly belongs to this website. 

Website: http://wizardmodels.com/


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MAJOR model agency

MAJOR model agency (Seoul, Korea).

The contract has been made between Major and our model for 2 months. During the first month of modelling this agency represented our model for Home shopping’s casting. The clients of home shopping really l
iked our model and they offered the agency to make the contract with this model for 3 months. 

Major offered our model to increase already signed contract from 2 to 3 months. However model was not able to increase her contract due to her studies at the university: the time of exams. Exactly because of this reason the original contract indeed has been made exactly for 2 months. Upon model’s refusal to prolong the contract, the relationships and attitude towards this model in Major agency became dramatically worse and the threats, arguments and blackmail have started to take place towards the model.

Major agency announced to our model: either, after finishing of the contract they would not pay her anything at all or she would have to stay for 3 months and they will pay model her full salary in full amount at the end of 3 month. 

But because the model could have faced expulsion from her university as the result of no show during the exams, we had to decide to return the model earlier and as the result: the model have worked for 1 month at this agency and came back without any pay at all.

www.majoragency.co.kr


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Next Models Istanbul (Turkey - Istanbul)

I don't even know where to start about this agency,I hear that much that to write something aobut it gives me an headache.

First of all I want to make clear for everyone that this agency has nothing to do with Next Models,I don't even know how they can be still open and not beiing sued.

The owner of the agency Serdar Sarica is well know for cheating models and agencies.He was running Cosmo models before but had to close it because his name was not trusted anymore and the agencies wouldn't send him anymore models.Then he come up with the Idea of opening Next Models creating a few fake emails with different names and start everything from the beginning.
This agency is well known about their lies and for cheating many models with the money and also don't pay the mother agencies commissions,reading some comments on them on few models group on facebook they even ask agencies to send them models otherwise they won't send them the mother agency commissions for the previous models.Models working as slave and doing casting at 11 pm,for a client in a club.

So if you don't want to waste your time as a model or have problem with them as an agency don't work with them.

http://www.nextmodel.com.tr/


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Modeling Agencies to avoid

Hello everyone,

I'm creating this blog to help models and people involved in the fashion industry to work only with trusted and professional agencies.

There are way too more new fake agencies,created from people who don't know anything about fashion and want to run an agency just for the pleasure to hang out with models or to look good beiing with them,many more are just a scam agencies offering good contracs to models but never accomplish them.

so yeah help me to make this blog helpful and share your experiences to me at

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