What is the matter with you people? Do you really think that you, or your child, are so special that you don’t have to do the things that everyone else has done before you?
Show business is a BUSINESS! And it is all about SHOW! If you were fortunate enough to be approached by a Scout you should consider yourself lucky. Granted, they are the bottom feeders of the industry, but they do serve a purpose. They are the first step up a long ladder to success. They will refer you to an agency like Cornerstone. If Cornerstone likes what they see and hear they MAY agree to refer you to a Management Group. There is no guarantee of that and they are not even going to consider you if you walk in with a bunch of snapshots that your brother took with his disposable camera. The people at the management group – probably the receptionist – are going to take one look at your pictures and throw them in the trash can where they belong. This is not amateur hour folks! This is the real thing! I know the people at Cornerstone and if they have a fault it is that they are too soft. They actually take an interest in the people they interview. They shouldn’t. They should run you through their office like cattle through a chute until they find the one person who stands out from the rest. It would make my job easier. Did you know that right on the other side of the office wall at Cornerstone they were filming Heroes, or more recently Jimmy Smits new show? You were that close to the real thing! And you blew it! Instead, you came here and read a lot of crap posted by an ex-employee who was fired because he was lazy and incompetent and who gets his revenge by making anonymous posts on sites like these. If you believe that garbage it serves you right! Maybe you are better suited for a job in another industry. Yes, you can supersize that Coke for me and yes, I would like fries with my Big Mac.

If the people at corner studios took the time to reply to all the postings here it's because they have something to hide. Trying to cover it up with an the story of an "ex employee" who was mad. Not fooling me. I might buy that it was an ex employee who got fired and is now posting the TRUTH! When I went in there were nothing that made it seem legit. Dee actually seemed a little upset when my dad asked her for the "agents" name. She told us we could google him and she didn't tell us her FULL name either. Supposedly a former model? Don't you think that she would have enough money to do something else with her life? Even so, if she actually was a "kind person" to actually want to help others she wouldn't mind giving you a CARD with her FULL NAME. Agents, scouts, managers love the attention they get and love to show off their past and their projects because it gives them credibility. I'm sure that there must of been a drop in people they were fooling and somehow got ahold of this website and decided to redeem themselves. This really is [***]. What happened as soon as I didn't return their call with a payment for my pictures? Call after call after call. As an actor you should know people don't go around "casting" others. It's something you have to fight for and it isn't gonna be handed to you that easily and if it is. It's a scam. I learned it the hard way before. $8,000 for acting classes when i was younger. So as far as MY experience goes I wouldn't trust Dee or Veronica. Neither of them gave me a full name and it seems like everyone gets the same generic commercial audition about the vitamin water. I heard a little 7 year old girl rehearsing it before i had my 4th appointment. I'm 17. So make your choices wisely people!

AMEN!

Read all about modeling scams here http://www.crimes-of-persuasion.com/Crimes/Delivered/modeling.htm  I'm not saying this particular company is a scam as I've had no personal contact but it's worrisome when many positive posts show up so early on the page. You need to worry if you should be asked to put up money up front - legit companies won't do that but will front the costs to take a chance on your child if they think your child has what it takes to succeed in modeling. The scam is, of course, requiring you to buy more and more services because they keep saying your child has the look. Good luck folks.

We have been [. . .]ed and we are trying to get our money back. Our son is [. . .] years old [very young] and we were approached by the "talent" scout at a playground.

We paid Cornerstone for a photo shoot just to find out that they wanted $680 more to make photo cards.

We don't have a contract or agreement. In fact most of the agreement was done over the phone. The only time I was actually in the office is to show my son to the "talent director," Dee (she doesn't have his last name on her business card).

Dee sent us to some photographer called Ming in downtown Los Angeles. There was also a "hair/makeup artist," but she couldn't do much for a [. . .]-year-old. The pictures he took were less than Sears quality. The lighting was very bad.

Dee took our credit card information over the phone right before the photo shoot. He made us believe before the photo shoot that $450 was our only expense and it will pay for itself once we get our first job.

A week later Dee called and told us that the pictures turned out great, but she needed $680 more to make the comp cards. That's when we knew we were taken.

I did a little research after that and I found out that toddlers up to 3 don't even have to have professional photos done because their look changes every 3 months.

They have an open house every Saturday to sucker more naive parents and I feel like I have to do something about it. It's not just the money! I thought that maybe you have something on them.