I'm going to interview Taobao models today. They said they wanted to get a model card, and then I paid 500 yuan. Am I being cheated? someone

The person who applies for a model and asks you to spend money to take photos to make a model card is a liar! A model card is a self-introduction information card with your photo and personal information printed on it. Being a model, whether part-time or full-time, strictly speaking, requires a model card. But the module card is not necessary. With it, it is easier to introduce yourself to the module card users. Just like business people need business cards, it doesn't matter whether they have them or not. However, the production of model cards is not as simple and low-cost as business cards, and the cost of taking pictures and printing is relatively high.

Therefore, nowadays, those brokerage companies that cheat money and falsely recruit models cheat you of high money in the name of needing a model card, because, first, it doesn't cost that much to make a model card. Second, after they make the model card for you, they will not provide it to the employer for reference at all. They just tell you that no one has chosen you and ask you to go home and wait. Since then, there has been no news. Because the production cost of the model card is very small, how much they charge you is equal to how much they cheated you.

Some companies ask you to pay some money first, and the money saved will be deducted from future activities, which is also a kind of fraud. They will only give you the activities you owe, without giving you money, or giving you less money, so that you can do activities for them in vain. Once you collect the fees you owe, they won't give you any more activities. Are you willing to do this useless labor? But if you don't do it, what you have already paid will be wasted, and they will not give it back to you even if they die.

Note that some companies tell you that you can also do it outside by yourself, which is actually a kind of fraud. Because even if you go out and ask, if you add photos, anyone will be more expensive than them, so you will definitely come back to them to do it. They've all figured it out. They know you'll definitely go back to them and do it. In fact, the model card is just an excuse. When they finish the model card for you, they say that no customer wants to choose you as their model, so you have to wait. In this way, there will never be any news, which is equivalent to making a model card for nothing. Whether they showed it to customers or not, only God knows!

In fact, the cost of the model card is mainly to take pictures. As long as there are suitable photos, it doesn't cost much to make a model card. You can also make an electronic version and do it yourself. It is stored in your mobile phone and sent to anyone who needs it. There is no cost at all. They said it was a commercial sample, but it was a bluff. This is just a model card.

A truly honest modeling company will never recruit amateurs for the society, but sign contracts internally through professional channels. Players who graduated from professional colleges and participated in major draft activities did not say that they wanted to sign up. At least, they have to go through the audition screening activities organized by people in the industry for free. It is possible to sign you up after seeing the photos they took for you with professional requirements. Note that there is no preset hardware condition except that the audition must be female, but the software condition is that you can't refuse to take nude shots. Therefore, if the above situation has nothing to do with you, then the real company is basically out of your reach. The real company helps you get the model card for free.

There is also a tried and tested touchstone for online recruitment of models, which is the premise for girls to engage in the modeling industry-they must not refuse to take nude photos. Only by doing this can we talk about other things. Unless you apply for a company that directly uses models, and this model doesn't need to be naked, it depends on whether they tell you that if you join a model company to be a model, no matter what model you are, you can't avoid exposing sensitive parts of your body and you can't refuse to do nude modeling activities. These are the characteristics of the modeling industry, but also the premise of joining a real company to be a model. The first lesson in all art schools is "liberating nature", which is what the teacher is telling you. No girl who graduated from an art school will refuse to take any photos or be a model. And you didn't graduate from a professional college. You don't have this foundation, so I have to explain it to you. Therefore, in the interview for amateurs, those who emphasize this should be true and those who don't mention it should be false. Because swindlers are afraid to scare you away by mentioning this, who do they ask to cheat money?

I used to be Gao Qian in Beijing, but now I'm retired. Please search my other similar answers here about how to participate in the free primary audition organized by the industry as a model. You can also see my top posts in the amateur model bar, group performance bar and popular actor bar of Baidu Post Bar, which all contain my specific information. Because the article is too long, I won't go into details here. After reading, you can communicate with the posts there.