VO-BB - 20 YEARS OLD!

[CC Heim]

"Basically I will give you a pdf which is 27 pages double spaced, I need you to record yourself reading it and provide me with a MP3 version of it Please be sure to sound interesting when you read it and not monotone like a robot.

Its around 27 pages of double spaced, its very easy stuff to read. Each page takes around 30 seconds to read. I know as I read them but im a man so I cant record this otherwise i would do it myself.

As this wont take longer than 30 minutes to do. I will pay $20 for 1 hour to cover any additional time beyond that 30 mins. So you are getting paid $20 for the hour."

OMG -- where do I sign up??????

[Mike Harrison]

CC...

I hope you sounded interesting when you told him where he could spend his $20.
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[Philip Banks]

"Thank you for your email which unlike your text proved never very far from being interesting"

[mcm]

Ugh.

I recently had a request for a quote from somebody who told me the work would "just take a few minutes". I wrote back

[Gregory Best]

Funny.

CC - my finger is getting pretty fast on the delete key.
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[asnively]

I would've been tempted to record a page and speed it up to :30, then send it back with a note saying it was hard to get it to 30 seconds, so I'm going to need another 14 cents per page.
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[Lee Gordon]

Rule of Thumb: when a job poster tells you how quick and/or easy it will be, RUN.
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[voicy1stef]

And these peeps tend to be so authoritative & demanding for these ***your choice of expletive*** jobs, don't they!

I got a similar email..'put some personality in it'... I declined to waste any time in discussion with the party & bowed out...but maybe I should have said, 'put some more money on the table cheapskate'.

ya gotta laugh!
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[Melanie Haynes]

[asnively]

That is so true. "It will only take a few minutes of your time" usually means that they have no idea what they're doing, they don't respect our profession, and that the budget is about $20.
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[Bill Roberts]

It must be his brother that posted a job on one of the pay-to-play sites, This was in my box today.

The job poster has received 45 auditions so far.

JOB Facts:

1. VO talent who would like to receive between $150 and $250 per month for reading commercials for a radio group. (Salt Lake City).

2. 3 to 5 sixty or thirty-second scripts in a day (some with a 2 to 4 hour turn around)

3. No more than 30 reads per month

4. To be paid; you will submit an invoice and W-9 at the beginning of the month and receive payment within 30-45 days.

My figures indicated that his would be $ 8.33ea. at $ 250 a month, and
$ 5.00 ea. at $ 150.00 a month.

Now assume that for the 5 spots a day you set a side 1 hour for this Client Mon-Fri, for the 4 weeks in the month. This would be 20 hours at $ 12.50 and taking the $ 150.00 offer, would be $ 6.25 per hour, less than minimum wage in the US.

I think $ 900.00 would be a good start! But I have been sniffing Ampex tape particles for the last few hours.
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VO-BB Member # 764 (Dec 2009)

[asnively]

Pass the Ampex tape particles, I'm feeling woozy.
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[Lee Gordon]