New Faces Development

They have a booth in the middle of Roosevelt Field, and they managed to sucker my husband in and get him to spend a lot of money on pictures.....has anyone dealt with them or heard anything about them?

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I did see their booth in the mall...http://www.newfacesdc.com/ref.html

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They tried to sucker us in but my brother in law said he heard bad things about them after doing research when they tried to sucker their kids so we stopped.

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yeah, well, the SOB's suckered my husband for a total of.......$1400. I could throw up. I don't know how those people sleep at night. We have been fighting for a week because I keep telling him they are unethical vultures - I hate them.

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OMG!

What did they tell your husband he would get for that money?

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it was $500 for the "photo shoot" ( I could have had the same pics taken at sears for $29.99) then $800 for marketing, ie putting the chosen picture on a website or something. And we get to keep the slides, but of course it's expensive to turn them into pictures if we chose. He did tell me after he got home that he bargained the $800 down to $650....but I am just sick that he spent $1150 of money we can't afford, and more sick that those b*stards give people false hope and prey on an excited father like that, you know???

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I was always told- a REAL agency wont make you pay- they'll pay you...

Me and a friend were involved with commercials and stuff as kids.... Neither parent ever layed out a dime...

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believe me, I KNOW - it's just when DH wants to do something, and I don't want him to, he takes it as a personal insult, or that I think he is stupid or whatever - he had to go ahead and do it and see that it was a waste for himself. But at least I figured I'd warn you guys about it (not that you would fall for it anyway).

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If he charged it anyway of cancelling it?

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oh yeah, I'm sure there is, but he won't do it, bc that would be admitting that he was a sucker. I've learned since I married him what arguements just are un-winnable. I told him maybe he could lay off playing poker for a few months to help pay for it!

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Check references for agencies here:
http://www.easybackgroundcheck.com

This articles was about new faces, Jenna and I were approached by them in the Smithhaven Mall before Christmas, I declined to give my info becuase it just seemed shady. there has also been a more recent Newday Article on them, I thought they were put out of business



National Modeling Scam Is Focus of LI Hearing; [NASSAU AND SUFFOLK
Edition]
Lisa Schiffman. STAFF WRITER. Newsday. (Combined editions). Long
Island, N.Y.: Nov 18, 2003. pg. A.61
Full Text (502 words)

In shopping malls, bus terminals, on college campuses, wherever young
people congregate, talent scouts try to seduce them with promises of fame
and fortune.

Hoping to be the next new face in television or magazines, hundreds of
aspiring young models and actors agree to pay so-called talent agencies
thousands of dollars for expensive photography, to be put on Web sites and
to attend "conventions" attended by casting directors and producers where
they will be "discovered."

But most become targets of a nationwide modeling scam, said consumer
advocates and experts in the fashion industry that attended a public hearing
at Farmingdale State University yesterday sponsored by the state Consumer
Protection Board and state Sen. Charles Fuschillo (R-Merrick).

"The only thing that comes out of their hopes, wishes and dreams is a
financial nightmare," said Fuschillo, chairman of the Senate Consumer
Affairs Committee.

Anna Roberto and her daughter, Christina, of Bellmore, know that
firsthand. Last winter, Christina, 14, was approached in Roosevelt Field
mall by a talent scout from the New Faces Agency.

Advised by agency representatives that she had a "different look"
because of her cleft chin, Christina persuaded her mother to dish out $1,000
for photos. After spending the money, the family was never contacted by the
agency again. "It was a dream for my daughter that never came true," Roberto
said.

"It's not about money, it's about self-esteem, hopes and expectations
and not having them fulfilled," said Betty Schram, of Northport, who said
her daughter, Amanda, had been a victim of a scam.

Jill Harkins of Setauket said that after her daughter Meghan, 15, was
approached in the Smith Haven Mall last August, her parents were asked to be
with Meghan for the interview. In the waiting room, a videotape played
showing the company, New Faces Development Center of Hicksville, being
interviewed by News 12. Jill Harkins said that made it seem legitimate.
After paying $850 for photography and the Web site, they were never
contacted again. "They feed on your ego," Harkins said. "Looking at her eyes
beaming (referring to her daughter), I wanted to do what would make her
happy."

Representatives for New Faces declined to comment last night, though
one said she could put reporters in touch with a satisfied customer.
Fuschillo said he is working on ways of putting these agencies out of
business permanently. One proposal would require a cooling-off period in
which agencies would give clients three to five days to think before signing
any contract.



Check complaints at Office of New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer
File complaints at http://www.oag.state.ny.us/complaints/complaints

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