Quote Originally Posted by GayGeek View Post
I received a message from AMVC (who originally signed me up with AEBN back in... was it 2001?) saying that the 1099's where out of whack. I haven't opened my envelope to see what it says. I should do that now...

Nope, not $600,000. The number looks quite reasonable -- they might have gotten it correct. Drat. I was hoping they'd be sending me a six-figure check with belated 2008 money.

I love AEBN and have only had one payment issue with them in seven years. But they really screwed up this time in not notifying people that their 1099's might be messed. I wouldn't have known unless I had received a message from AMVC. I always wait until April 10 to do my taxes, but plenty of companies do theirs much earlier.

--Aaron
Hey Aaron, are you aware that AMVC takes a HUGE chunk out of what you would really make from AEBN? When we first started producing, we went directly to AMVC. After finding out from other producers how much you lose from AEBN we went to only having them sell our product on AMVC's website. We eventually moved away from AMVC.

AEBN pays studios 20%.
AMVC takes out 20% from that payout and all others they submit your movies to. Your losing a nice chunk of money.

David and Jody are good people. I'm not speaking negative about them. They do take a good of chunk of money away from your VOD payouts. They are a broker... But you could do a lot of the VOD work yourself. It's like the same as sending your product to AMVC, except your packaging several shipments.