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Complaint Review: Transscontinental talent - Orlando Florida
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Transscontinental talent
TCTalent.com Orlando, Florida, U.S.A.
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Trancscontinental talent talked me into enrolling as a member so that my website would be seen by producers and big name talent scouts. Rip-off! Orlando Florida
While unemployed during early 2003I was looking through the classifides in the a Boston paper and came across something that caught my eye. WANTED MUSICIANS, MODELS, ACTORS. I'm a guitarist so I thought I'd give it a try. I called and was told to go to their local TCTalent office and bring a cd of what I do.
I arrive, fill out a registration form then a group of us go in to a room and we're shown a video of boy/girl bands and how they were discoverd by Lou Perlman. The insrtructor explained to us that setting up our own website was very important to being discovered. So the price would be $795.00 Nonrefundable. Our sites would be available to agencies and producers from "all over the world" to seek out talent.
After this introduction the instructor meets one on one with each applicant. He listened to the first 30 seconds of no more than two or three songs on my cd and that was it. He gave me a brochure and a number to call. I called to sign up and gave my credit card number. I was told no checks were accepted and that a monthly fee for upkeep of the site would and always be $19.95 a month for as long as I was a memeber. It went up to $29.95 a few months later and they billed my checking account. Each time I noticed the 29.95 charge I would have to called them a explain the amount promissed was 19.95.
When I first enrolled I was on the phone for 1 1/2 hours because I was so reluctant to join and I had a lot of questions. I told the representative that I was out of work and paying child support and that the enrollment fee was a lot of money for me to part with. But I wanted to give music business one last try. One example she gave me was "Celine Dion" might need a guitarist somewhere and you might have to jump on a plane and get there for the gig. It was all a hard-sell. She would say "Don't you love to play guitar?" "Isn't this what you want to do?"
So I started getting email contacts from them for audtion calls for singers in boy bands and girl bands. I'm a 48 year old guitar player. Auditions for theater groups all in different parts of the country. Nothing near me. Oh also agencies looking for background music for movies and other broadcasts. I even sent a tape out to some address in New York. Music for a movie coming out called Four Walls, Twelve Hours or something. It's about a mental hospital. Never heard anything about that. All this was only some of the aggrevation I went through and this could get long. Finally I just called, wrote, and emailed them that I was cancelling my membership. I'm glad it's over.
Thank you for listening.
Lou
Wakefield, Massachusetts
U.S.A.
I arrive, fill out a registration form then a group of us go in to a room and we're shown a video of boy/girl bands and how they were discoverd by Lou Perlman. The insrtructor explained to us that setting up our own website was very important to being discovered. So the price would be $795.00 Nonrefundable. Our sites would be available to agencies and producers from "all over the world" to seek out talent.
After this introduction the instructor meets one on one with each applicant. He listened to the first 30 seconds of no more than two or three songs on my cd and that was it. He gave me a brochure and a number to call. I called to sign up and gave my credit card number. I was told no checks were accepted and that a monthly fee for upkeep of the site would and always be $19.95 a month for as long as I was a memeber. It went up to $29.95 a few months later and they billed my checking account. Each time I noticed the 29.95 charge I would have to called them a explain the amount promissed was 19.95.
When I first enrolled I was on the phone for 1 1/2 hours because I was so reluctant to join and I had a lot of questions. I told the representative that I was out of work and paying child support and that the enrollment fee was a lot of money for me to part with. But I wanted to give music business one last try. One example she gave me was "Celine Dion" might need a guitarist somewhere and you might have to jump on a plane and get there for the gig. It was all a hard-sell. She would say "Don't you love to play guitar?" "Isn't this what you want to do?"
So I started getting email contacts from them for audtion calls for singers in boy bands and girl bands. I'm a 48 year old guitar player. Auditions for theater groups all in different parts of the country. Nothing near me. Oh also agencies looking for background music for movies and other broadcasts. I even sent a tape out to some address in New York. Music for a movie coming out called Four Walls, Twelve Hours or something. It's about a mental hospital. Never heard anything about that. All this was only some of the aggrevation I went through and this could get long. Finally I just called, wrote, and emailed them that I was cancelling my membership. I'm glad it's over.
Thank you for listening.
Lou
Wakefield, Massachusetts
U.S.A.
