John Robert Powers - Worked at the Chicago Location- and yea, it's a scam
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I worked at this place as a "Talent Agent". It is absolutely a scam from first hand experience.
We literally would cold call people and tell them their son or daughter must have filled something out at school. Totally made up. If you can pay, you are in, plain and simple. We worked on all commission since it's a revolving door with the turnover, they knew they could get a few weeks of free labor before you quit.
All the reviews saying "it's not an agency! It's a school!". Dude, I worked there, and we were never supposed to be up front about anything.
Lie lie lie, sell sell sell. This place is a joke, avoid like the plague
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Can you please contact me at saulein88@***.comI am thinking suing JRP, Chicago. And would need your help if you know anyone that's suing.
I checked out the wilhelmina site and that female Kelli is the one who was the manager at John Robert Powers in Baltimore who stole my debit card out of my purse when I worked there. Her and her BF at the time Lorne racked up a $400 charge on it before I got Bank of America to cancel it!!!!
Then the next day they coincidentally never came back to work!! It was back in like 2003 or 2004 but it was definitely her!!!!!!!
I worked there as well and you are absolutely right!!!!
Can you contact me at saulein88@***.com and let me know of anyone you know sued or suing the company and the lawyer they are working with. I got screwed by them and now in need to seek legal action for my refund.
My daughter torn her ligaments and unable to attend the upcoming event in July. And with doctor's note, she can't travel. Even so, they are not refunding me.
On top the changed the date and hotel venue. And this is not what I signed up for.
I too, was duped... Well, both my mother and I.
Never pay money up front y’all. An “agent” will only get paid when you get gigs, as it were. First, I gave JRP hundreds of dollars just to sign up {They let anyone sign up. BTW.} Which, I understand they need some money to keep the school running.
But it shouldn’t cost that much. My school had to be using that money for something else ‘cause the inside looked horrible. It almost looked like a fixer•upper w/o it being fixed. Second, came the life•time membership.
We thought, ‘Oh sure! Sounds like a good idea. I don’t have any other options here.’ That was about $1,000... I think.
Teachers were teaching things they had no clue or experience in/about. Third classes were never a set time or day. You would just walk in and they’d stick you in wherever most students were. Now comes the IMTA part.
Doesn’t matter when you joined JRP. As long as you’re able or want to pay the fee, they will pitch anything they think you would go for. I payed about $5,000 thinking I’d have a much better chance to be discovered. They picked a horrible headshot and photos for my zed card.
When I got the negatives and looked through them, I found so many other photos that were so much better than the ones they used. Our teacher chaperone told me, *After* coming home, that ‘I probably didn’t get any call backs because my headshot made me look Hispanic and when the agents saw me they didn’t expect me to be some white girl.’ We get home and I still returned to go to classes {As if it would have changed. LTM} Then they tried to get me interested in going to Paris because they knew I’d be perfect there. We said no thanks!
I would have spent way more to go there than I would have in Cali. So many other things I could be pissed about. How much money I put myself into. How hard I worked for it all.
That being said, go look for auditions on your own.
Sometimes even being an extra in a scene they will pay you, keyword *Sometimes* I hope all of this helps anyone. Saving you from being scammed.