Quote Originally Posted by gaybucks_chip View Post
And to Brian's point... yes, it is a little scary what "scouts" will say... we had one (who wasn't even working for us anymore at that point) telling some prospective model he could not only get them modeling with us, but get them a job, and magazine covers, etc... I wouldn't have believed it because the scout had at one time been reliable, but it was overheard by another person who I knew to be reliable, and the "model" so scouted also confirmed the account.

I think that it's a "brush with greatness" thing... the scouts want desperately to be accepted and thought of as Someone Important so by claiming to know so-and-so at such-and-so studio, they can impress their friends, be popular at parties... and probably get laid along the way.
Yupyup to a certain extent I can understand a scout wanting to tell someone good things to keep the model interested, but they should not promise anything they can't deliver, and they should qualify their statements and not make any promises they can't keep.

Just like, in the eyes of surfers, there is often no distinction between an affiliate and a sponsor website (they don't know enough about the sponsor/affiliate system to realize that there are actually different companies there), a model might not be aware a particular scout isn't an actual employee or even representative of the company they're scouting for. And the model can't even be blamed for failing to make that distinction because the scout very well might as well be an employee of whomever they're scouting for. They do represent you in a sense.

I know that with our core scouts I know and trust well, I can be assured they'll never make any unrealistic promises and always be upfront to the prospective models. It's better for us when a model shows up well-informed and accurately informed. It plays a huge part in their not only shooting a scene or two with us, but working with us for months on end, over the long term.