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Web-based agencies and listings

This is where you pay a fee to have either a photo or a webpage on a site. The site may tell you that they get a vast number of 'hits' and that talent scouts and leading agencies as well as photographers are looking for new models and will see your face on their site.

Well, maybe they do get a lot of hits - but it's visitors that count and there are always far more hits than actual visitors. Many of the visitors are just looking for pictures of girls, some of those who are genuinely interested in hiring models may be people who have dubious motives and who would be turned away by conventional model agencies, and many of the visitors will too far away from you to be any use anyway - many of them will be in other countries and some will be in other continents!

And anyway, relatively few photographers will book models from a website - these sites, for some reason, seem to attract a lot of unreliable models who are nothing more than timewasters - professional photography is a very expensive business and it's much safer to book models through an agency, because if the model lets the photographer down the agency will almost always be able to find a suitable replacement at short notice.
They will also sack models who fail to turn up, and this encourages models to be reliable.
Many of the models who advertise on Internet sites may also provide sexual services, so there is a risk that photographers who book models from internet sites may be expecting more than modelling services.

So you aren't very likely to get bookings from photographers - what about the talent scouts?
Well, maybe - but most of the 'scouts' are likely to be scouting for new victims for their own scam!

And the leading agencies who look at the site?

Can you really believe that leading agencies, who get hundreds of applications from would-be models, will spend their valuable time looking at endless websites?

I think that it may be unfair of us to describe web-based agencies and listings as a scam - but whether or not they set out to deceive people, in our view most of them are usually a waste of money.
A few however (onemodelplace is probably the best known) have been going for years and are highly effective.