Amandadroke

Good Luck with your job. You think you know everything there is to know!! And yet through out this entire message you stated the name of my company as OCT! You also said that I did not post our logo which I did. Also I am a scout. The reason why my job title is "Director of New Faces" is because I scout for all of our locations and because I have been with the company for over a year. I find it funny that you state that you are ONLY asking questions and not making accusations. I also think its funny that you said you can browse our talent when you can NOT you can ONLY view success stories, which model post, from there you can view that models comp card- basic info. If you were a Talent or other Member you would be able to view more specific info on that model to contact them personally. There is actually tons of people who do know us and who think that we do a great job. Companies like FORD Models whould never deal with a scam company.

So this is the last thing I am writing, because all that you want to do is continue to make accusations and try to twist words with out making any progress. And I refuse to entertain your actions any more. PLEASE delete me from your website as I will never login again. As I said if you or ANY one else wants more information they can feel free to contact the office. You say you do research on companies to provide your members with safe, accurate info. BUT you still know absolutly nothing about One Source Talent and you refuse to ACTUALLY look into it more than bantering me online. Why "ask questions" if you are going to accuse me of "not knowing anything" and "mis-leading"...

SO GOOD LUCK! AND GOOD BYE~ you are a complete waist of my time and I don't need your website.

Thanks

austinmodelsandtalent

Actually, perhaps this is a WASTE of your time... "waist" is that area between your upper and lower torso. On model comp cards, they usually provide the measurements of chest, WAIST, and hips.

Waste is refuge... garbage... or in this case, time which is "wasted," not waisted.

Quite curiously... you have this http://www.myspace.com/amandadumo listed here on MyModelTalk.com as your MySpace page and there is a picture of an 18 year old girl on it. And yet, you also have this MySpace page, which is clearly you again (Amanda Droke working as Director of New Talent at OST) and yet suddenly you are 26 years old and the photos are of a different girl: http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm...ndid=131564238

Which of these two different girls are you really?

Angelus

And THAT ladies and gentleman is typically how unprofessional people exit.

My apologies about the initials. I was thinking OST and TCT and WSN all at once. lol.

I'm sending reading comprehension issues.
Your LOGO is not your talent LICENSE number!

Thank you for attacking me, acting unprofessional and for acting irresponsible with your words. See where anger gets you?

Thank you for your time here and thank you for leaving.

You have helped show the typical misgivings in personality, professionalism and industry knowledge of the personnel that companies like One Source hire to conduct business for and represent them.

Professional executives with reputations do not bicker. Andwe did not bicker with you. You chose to get defensive instead of giving us what we asked for.

Professional executives do one of two things...
"Put up or Shut up!"

Definitions:
Put Up: To answer all questions accurately and with brevity. No evasion nor misunderstanding of said question. Or have formal information provided which may answer any percieved questions.

Shut Up: a. Have no formal answer nor info available at present and simply walk away from discussion.
b. Figure they're too busy/too important to answer and/or it's not enough of an issue to address...so they move on.


Good bye!


Again, thanks for your participation and for shedding more light on OCT, oops OST. Darnit that former TCT name...

Lyndsey

The only issue I have with One Source Talent isn't that they charge their models for the digital comp cards, but that purchasing the digital comp card is required...And it's illegal (at least in New York) for any agent or manager to require upfront payment for representation.

austinmodelsandtalent

Indeed it does appear that there are at least several questionable issues with this company, each based strictly upon what appear to be the breaking of laws - and, at least, which cannot be explained or backed up by their own "Director." The individual, who was posting for OST, representing that company, appeared to actually have very little knowledge of her own company herself. I was wondering if perhaps this "amanda" isn't really with that company at all. Certainly a "Director" for a company would be aware of such simple things as to whether or not the company had a license or not... and would know the difference between simple words such as "Deformation/Defamation" and "Waste/Waist," or that begins sentences with the word, "And." I know very few Directors of large companies that are not properly educated, especially in their written presentations and responses. Add to this the fact that "amanda" is using two different MySpace sites - both with photos, implied as being herself, which are not even the same person. In fact, in one she appears to of an Asian background. On her other MySpace site, she is clearly Caucasian. This doesn't add up and is either some sort of horrible mistake, or an attempt to possibly defraud viewers.

It is also known by individuals own testimonies that OST "requires" you to use "their photographers." These photographers, whose work is often not up to professional standards, is considerably more expensive than if you were to hire a professional fashion or commercial shooter in your own area. The notion that someone should pay for electronic comp cards is absurd as well. While everybody understands that a professionally printed comp card costs money to create (generally approximately $1 each, or less, in bulk), even then the model should be allowed to, (1) source their own photographers, and (2) source their own printing company (often as long as they follow the agency-requested layout/format, and include the agency logo... BUT THEN AGAIN, ONE SOURCE TALENT IS NOT AN AGENCY ACCORDING TO AMANDA, so why would they even need you to have a comp card with them to begin with?).

Someone is selling snake oil off of the back of their wagon. It's a shame that these types of things continue to tarnish the industry and take advantage of those who are unaware of how the business really works.