Buyer beware: BroadwayAustralia

Hi all

Has anyone else received a missive from Troy Dodds Enterprises Network offering a banner on the home page of the Broadway Australia site in November for $299? Mr Dodds regards this "a fantastic rate"?

I think it's a bit of a fantasy, too.

I applaud Mr Dodds' industriousness and entrepeneurial fervour, but caveat emptor. This sort of promotion may suit your needs perfectly, but I'd be looking for independently audited visitor stats and comparing them with, for example, the sort of exposure you'll get here for free before parting with any hard-earned for a banner advertisement. It would also pay to compare the value with something like Google's Adwords program:

https://adwords.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=6382&hl=en_US

If Broadway Australia's Now Showing page is any indication, you may well be paying for something you can get for "nothing".

http://www.broadwayaustralia.com/nowshowing.html

$20 per listing on this page, on which I can count one production listed. But the little box with events ticking over at the top of the screen is drawn directly from the free listings on this site.

http://theatre.asn.au/ticker.php3

Cheers
Grant

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unfortunately malcolm, these are just one of the many rip offs that you will see on the internet, i have also seen a copy of your free listings and auditions on some paid sites. agencies try these tactics as well of $299 to set up photos of yourself on their websites and they "supposedly" have clients that look at the photos. I have recently done some research of my own. i always believe that agencies should not charge an upfront fee, through this website i found the meaa website which list all of the major agencies based here in brisbane, i decided to call each and everyone of the agencies listed, i can tell you only about 2 of these dont ask for money up front, the rest have ask for a fee ranging from $300 up to $1000. they have excuses that you need photos, make up, consultation fees, drama workshops which they run themselves. i know a young girl 19 yrs old just paid $500 through an agency called ashaila and they promised to get her a job supposedly, i know of another girl that i met while waiting to be seen by one of the tamblyn models representative, she's desperately wanting to be a model she paid hundreds of dollars through an agency, the agency went broke apparently and later re surfaced with a completely different name and is today still operating (gosh i wish i could remember the name), so now she is trying her luck at tamblyn models agency, so were both waiting to be seen her as a model and me just looking for casting work tamblyn models rep ask for $249 to be on their internet site. just like that. the girls that ive met remind me so much of the young people that post on this board desperately looking for a break or a start that they can be conned easily into paying such large amount of cash in the hope that they could be seen. meaa is not hold liable for any of this but it really does dissapoint me that they are listed on their website, i think that you should never advertised or endorsed anyone that is trying to rip off people, i know of an agency that once said to me that they are a member of meaa and they are listed on their website, now all a young person need to hear is that and they are convince they will be turned into superstars. theres gotta be a way to stop this. there are too many people offering astronomical amount of money for internet services that you can get somewhere for free

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