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Message: [QUOTE="DonnyThompson, post: 417015, member: 46114"] Which letter did you receive? There are so many of these floating around out there... Most of the time - if not all of the time - these are scams... they are looking for you to work on a project "[I]on spec[/I]". "On Spec" is a term that generally implies [I]"lots of work for no pay" - [/I]on the premise that your investment will pay off "somewhere down the line". And it won't. They'll tell you how "fantastic" this new discovery of their's is, how wonderful they are, how they are the next Pink, Michael Jackson, etc., and how you[I]...[B](yes, you!) [/B][/I]were chosen out of many different studios. [I][B] [/B][/I]It'll be a stroke-fest, Ryan.[B] [/B] Sometimes, they'll even go so far as to tell you that you were chosen [I]"because of your incredible sounding mixes",[/I] or based on[I] "your reputation as a professional and a mover and a shaker in your field "[/I] and how "[I]you are the one that they want to get in on the ground floor", [/I]all with the promise of you making a lot of money- [U][I][B]eventually[/B][/I][/U] - by investing your time, talent and hard work into a project that will probably never see the light of day... Knowing that they have written the exact same email to perhaps 20 different studios using the same "form letter". [I](And BTW, YouTube doesn't count as "the light of day".) LOL[/I] And 3 years from now, you [I]still[/I] won't have any money to show for it. Instead of completely burning the bridge, ([I]in case this happens to be the [B]one deal[/B] that may be on the up and up, (out of the 4 zillion others that aren't[/I]), let them know that you are willing to talk to them further about the details of their project, what they hope to accomplish, etc., at which point you'd also be more than happy to discuss your rates, based on what they want to do... you might even offer them a "discount", ( [I]whether you actually do or don't doesn't really matter, because it's very likely that any words out of your mouth that suggest anything other than [B]"free"[/B] will be of no interest to them, anyway). [/I] If they are [B]truly[/B] professionals themselves, they will not only [U][I]respect[/I][/U] you charging them for your services... they will also [U][I][B]expect[/B][/I][/U] it. ;) But deep down you already know this, right? Because you were suspicious enough to post the concern here. If you were 100% convinced that this was a legitimate proposal, you wouldn't have bothered to ask us what we thought... right? It would be helpful if you could post the email you received, as well as the source... it may be that this form letter is also being sent out en' mass and it could be beneficial to others... IMHO of course. d/ [/QUOTE]

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