What Fair Markets Are, And Why Voices.com Isn’t One

hey there it’s David H Lawrence the 17th
and my response to voices.com generated
a whole bunch of comments from you guys
and one of them was about you know why
are you judging voices.com for their
business practices I mean you want
people to judge you you know sure I do I
want people to judge me I’d like them to
judge me well awful lot of comments from
people saying yeah I completely get it I
understand I did the same thing no thank
you
and a couple that said what should we
expect from pay-to-play sites from
casting sites
and the way I look at it absolutely a
casting site needs to have income so
they can maintain the platform right and
they need you know when you say somebody
charges three four five hundred dollars
a year to be a member of the platform
that helps them have a support team and
have an actual site and maintain that
site and so on but the goal is not just
to stay in business the goal is to have
a business that people respect a
business that is fair
and in particular when it comes to
matching voice buyers or voice seekers
on voice 1 2 3 with the talent that can
help make those voice dreams come true
you want there to be a fair market and a
fair market is best exemplified by the
real estate market where a transaction
doesn’t occur until the buyer and the
seller meet at some sort of price that
both of them can live with or on the
stock exchange where somebody sells a
stock to somebody who’s willing to buy
it at a particular price and kind of
what goes around that is the information
that both sides to the transaction have
available to them now you’ve seen people
get into real big trouble for using
insider information because that means
that the buyer if they have inside
information they can manipulate that and
get a better price or the seller if they
have inside information they can
manipulate that and get a better price
for them so the transaction that occurs
in a fair market is when both sides have
reasonable access to all the information
they need to make the decision as to
whether or not they want to engage in
that transaction when one side has an
advantage that’s not a fair market and
when the actual market itself
steps in and tilts the balance in favor
of one or the other or away from one or
the other that’s an unfair market and
that’s what I see with voices.com
because you as the seller of voice
services don’t know if the project is
managed and don’t know what the original
amount of money is that the buyer came
to the table with you know they might
have been willing to pay you a thousand
dollars but once voices.com steps in all
that’s available is 200 or 400 or 600
whatever it is and then there is the
other thing that came up again and again
in the comments and that is well my
agent only charges 10% my manager only
charges 10% and by law in California and
New York and I think in other places
around the world that are production
centers
10% for an agent is actually the law
they can’t charge more than that now is
voices.com when they manage a project
doing more than an agent is actually not
there are people that would argue they
do owe they listen to all these
auditions and they they do all this
stuff well mmm
agents submit you for hundreds of
projects before you get asked to even
audition for one of them usually on
average it’s 200 projects for every
project that you audition for and even
less for the ones that you book with
manage manage project with voices.com
there’s no question they’re going to
make money there’s no question will they
be called in front audition they’re
actually managing from the producers
side not from the talent side so they
kind of leave the the cellar you the
talent without the information that you
need to determine whether or not you
even want to play in their marketplace
and that’s why a lot of people choose
the nuclear method or the nuclear option
which is to leave the marketplace or in
my case never even enter the marketplace
you know the other video that I talked
about was them wanting me to be part of
their coach’s program and I just choose
not to work in their marketplace and the
final thing I want to talk to you about
is the comments that a few people made
why weren’t you more vociferous about
your you know it’s telling them you know
just you know handing them their ass and
telling them you know there’s no way
that I would work for you you guys suck
and know that you know for me it was
number one it wasn’t necessary
and number two things could change it’s
possible not likely but it’s possible
that voices.com
will decide you know what we’re getting
so much blowback on all these different
angles from all this stuff maybe we
should take a second look at how we’re
doing
things and they’ll change I don’t know
as it is right now though I don’t want
to be in their marketplace and the vast
preponderance of commenters on that
other video said the same thing but for
me it’s also any market that is unfair
to one side or the other is a market
that I would be suspect for you know if
the if the seller of a house knew that
the house was riddled with termites or
the buyer of the house knew that the
city was about to appropriate that
property like they had inside
information you know they would both
sides would be able to do use that to
their advantage and I say in this
particular case no one should be at a
disadvantage and I just really feel that
the sellers in this case the people that
are selling their voice services you
possibly could be at a disadvantage and
so that’s why I don’t want that to be
something that people don’t go unnoticed
what are your thoughts what do you think
about this there are a couple of people
that say how dare you judge who do you
think you are well I think I’m David H
Lawrence the seventeenth and I am able
to make decisions based on how I judge
things and I’m going to continue to do
that and hopefully it will benefit the
people to watch these videos I don’t
know let me know in the comments below
if you want to be notified of the latest
videos go ahead and click on my head
there that’s how to subscribe or click
on a subscribe button you want to see
the latest one that I’ve done go ahead
and click on that frame that frame will
take you right there and YouTube will
play it for you I’m David H Lawrence the
seventeenth and I thank you so much for
watching and I will talk to you tomorrow.