I was with WM Models Inc for a total of 10 months. During this time they wanted me to come down every single week to practice my "model walk" (I don't live in Toronto so it was hard for me to do that). One of the people that run the business (Tara) yelled at me for not getting the walk my first time trying. She was very impatient and unprofessional.
I have talked to FIVE other models that have been to their agency and have been scammed and treated almost the exact same way I've been. I've also talked to a few photographers that have talked to more models about being scammed by WM. I am positive that I will run into dozens more down the road until they're stopped.
I had to wait 7 months before I could get my pictures and when I did they were low quality pictures that looked really bad. There was this one picture that I paid 52$ for that had little hairs blowing across my face and they said they would fix it and they never did.
Every time I went down there they had a new "fee" for me to pay. They would charge me ridiculous amounts of money for pictures and they told me they were going to make one of my pictures look like I was looking at myself but they never did. They continuously lied to me and treated me horribly.
I finally had enough and I went down there to tell them I was leaving and guess what.. Another fee for me to pay! They charged me money for them to "design" my comp card it was about 70$. Now I realize that I never had to pay any of that because I never agreed to it, but I thought since I signed a contract I was obligated.
Please learn from my and many other peoples mistake and don't do business with WM. At the end of all this I spent almost 2000$. A lot of time and money wasted on such an unprofessional and unethical agency.
Thank you for taking the time and reading this.
Lee
Guelph, Ontario
Canada
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