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#2Consumer Suggestion
Mon, March 18, 2013
Unless models take REAL action, things will never change. You must file a formal complaint with each and every overseeing government department (federal, state, county and city). You should start with the Florida Department of Business & Professional Regulation.
www.myfloridalicense.com/dbpr
These types of agency problems are NOT new and are NOT exclusive to the agency that you are referring to; it happens every single day, all over the country. Until an agency gets in trouble for what they are doing, and are splashed in the newspaper when their license is revoked, other agencies will not take notice nor bother to change their policies.
Relying on an Internet "complaint" site does nothing in the long run...these posts will soon drop down on major search engine results. And when readers see that the agency is STILL up and running, without having endured any major fallout, they will assume that these posts were merely the rants of scorned models.
upset model
St. Cloud,#3UPDATE EX-employee responds
Sun, March 17, 2013
Abfab was my agency for over a year and Jane seemed to legit at first. But, after months of not getting any jobs I showed up at her office which at that time was above a doctors office on edgewater drive. Jane and I talked and she suggested that I update my images and get a comp card. I told her I needed to talk with my husband about it and I would call her soon. But, later that evening Jane sent me a paypal invoice for a photo shoot I hadn't agree to. But, I paid the invoice to ABFAB and she set up the photo shoot.
As I remember two weeks passed sense the photo shoot and I contacted Jane only to get the run around so I decided to wait another week. Now, three weeks has passed and still no pictures so I started to get concerned and I contacted Jane again.
She told me that the photographer had stolen the pictures and she was trying to pay for another photo shoot with a different photographer. I was very confused, concerned and pissed because he seemed like a good person but I didnt know. Weeks late I did another shoot with a not so good photographer and I was very disappointed with the pictures!
I told Jane but she sent me another invoice for the comp cards. And I paid the second paypal invoice to Abfab for my comp cards. But, another four months passed, no comp cards and still no work so I contacted Jane again. She told me that needed to pay her to be in the website and thats why I wasn't getting any jobs. Again, later that evening I got another paypal invoice from Jane. My husband warned me out of concerned so I decided to ask around before paying that invoice.
And as faith would have it I met a model who knew (Azwah) and she gave me his contact info. I sent him a email and he responded right away telling me exactly what happened with Abfab and Jane. Amongst may things he told me about Jane and Abfab he did say that she did not pay him for his efforts and that she stole the money for her personal use! He said that if she had paid him all the models he photographed would have their print ready pictures. He also said that Jane inflated the cost of the comp cards and charged every model 3x the actual cost.
After speaking with him and sharing our conversation with my husband I felt like a fool! Because I finally realized what Jane had been doing. She lied to me and other models about the photographer to keep from paying him and to keep us from contacting him. I didn't want to believe that I had been scammed so I asked Jane about what (Azwah) had told me and she looked shocked but continued lie!
Her assistant (Carlye) at the time called me a few days later and told me the same thing the photographer said about the pictures and money. She said that Jane just didn't pay him and he got really pissed and refused to to give her any pictures until he got paid. She said she felt bad for him but didn't want to get involved. She said that Jane was liar with tons of personal problems and a bad drinking problem.
After reading other scam reviews about Jane Rooney and Abfab I seriously hope she gets just what's coming to her soon most likely JAIL time!! Models please BEWARE!
Concerned Mom
Orlando,#4Consumer Comment
Sun, March 17, 2013
I was told about that photgrapher too. So she and not the photographer who did the stealing. Jane said he ran off with the pictures, stole from her and intimidated her staff. She even paid for a new photoshoot for my daughter and other models who were supposedly ripped off by Azwah. At first I was shocked because she and Azwah were best of friends. All she did was talk about his wonderful credentials and professionalism as opposed to the photgrapher working in Orlando. Then one day he was a thief and her worst enemy. She has several other friends in the area who no longer associate with her I am wondering if similar things have happened. I am going to ask the ones I know. I do know she bad mouths a couple of well known people in our area including a very nice stylist my daughter has worked with as well as a couple of local photographers. It seems like if people don't want to be part of her scam she bad mouths them and speaks negatively about them including slandering their character. It is funny because she has been really bad mouthing the particular stylist and the stylists photographer friend a lot and when Jane sees them she hugs and kisses them like they are her best friends. I have been avoiding these people based on what Jane has said about them. That should have made me suspicious. I am seeing her more for what she is.
Amber
Miami,#5UPDATE EX-employee responds
Wed, March 13, 2013
I think everyone who has been SCAMMED by ABFAB MANAGEMENT and its BRITISH SCAM ARTIST owner JANE ROONEY, JANE ROONEY-ROST, JANE HUMPHREYS needs to file police reports on her. I heard so much negative information about JANE ROONEY from models, make up artists and even a few photographers. I was also was told that she said the reason some of models didnt get pictures was because one of the photographers who took them (Azwah) disappeared with those pictures and didn't give them to her.
But, I found out that JANE ROONEY lied about that. The real truth is that JANE ROONEY STOLE the money that the models and their parents paid her to pay the photographer for photo shots so to my understanding he never got paid. I am sure you'll get an ear full if you just call or send him a email I found his email and number on his website. He was really pissed but honest and told me some surprising details about that SCAM ARTIST JANE ROONEY I am still shocked but I believe him WOW!! JANE ROONEY REALLY NEEDS TO BE STOPPED ASAP!!