Anyone had this experience with Voices.com?

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re_curly81

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After a short while of using them online, we were "appointed" an voices.com "Account Manager", presumably because we do lots of work through them. The claim was that they would post the project for us, (instead of traditionally doing it on the website ourselves) and they would filter out all the submissions and provide only the good ones. Sounded good, but then we noticed over the course of several months, the voices.com account manager started requesting that we submit projects in higher price brackets to receive better talent (do you see where this is going?). Things got really fishy when they simply refused to put the job post in the lower price bracket!
By that time, we were regularly paying $400-$600 per 2 min voice over, where normally it would be $200-$300.
Me an my producer started getting suspicious, so decided to login a new account and compare to just doing it ourselves. Sure enough, we were getting better talent, for much less cost, similar to what we were paying originally!

So that was about a year ago, and now were getting constant calls, and emails from new "account managers" announcing they are our new liaison. While they are polite, I keep having to say no thank you!

I'm interested to hear if anyone else has had a positive or negative experience with this?
 
Ahhh....business.
Always squeezing dollars.

Well, their scam is out now. Sounds typical. There's no good thing that folks won't screw up with greed.

So "account manager" = needless middleman.

I suppose you could always just create a whole slew of new accounts....but what a pain. What a shame.
 
I received a cold call from someone saying he represented them just the other day. Totally out of the blue and I got off the phone fast. Interesting business model.
 
What I would do here in Houston is simply connect with the VO artist themselves, forget services like that altogether. Find someone you like in your price range, stick with them, never let them go, resurrect them if they die, etc. Maybe not an option where you are.
 
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I can't speak for anyone else, but for me, finding voice talent is not
a problem. How did I find them? I made myself a website for my
production company. Voice talent (just like all of us) like to make
money. I get around 3-4 new emails every two weeks from
a new voice talent, asking me to add them to my 'roster'. They
typically include demos so you can screen them yourself.
All this, just because I have a very basic, production company
website.

I have hired numerous voice artists online. I email a script,
they email or FTP me an audio file and I pay them with Paypal.
Simple. And along with great sites that let me buy fantastic music
for reasonable prices, it has really helped me to offer better
quality commissioned pieces.
 
We've developed a talent pool as well. It can be as simple as a saved email list, that you send out whenever needed. One negative I find with the same pool is that our demo reel tends to sound the same after a while. I do however like Voices.com for the convenience, and huge selection.
 
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