Re: Script Readers/Promedia Entertainment
YES, I'VE BEEN SCAMMED BY PROMEDIA
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I found an ad for Promedia, not online, but running in the local (Denver) paper last month. I checked out the phone message and the website, and sent an email with questions that were answered. The site and my email reply stated specifically that once the course had been completed, they would add me to their list of readers and start sending me scripts. I asked again when I ordered the software, and the girl who took my order verified that they hired anyone who completed the course.
I received my materials, which weren't too bad. The course consists of a videotape of a guy lecturing, a printed outline that follows the lecture, a couple of pages of industry terms, and some software that formats your treatment or story analysis. It instructs you to go online to one of the sites that has scripts to download for free, and do 7 each of the treatments and analyses, and fax it to them. They would evaluate them, and send me back copies of scripts they had on file, then compare my treatments to those written by their existing staff. The email had advised me that most people finish the course in about 2 weeks. I had my misgivings, but went ahead and did the work, and faxed copies to them last week. I hadn't heard anything, so I sent an email followup on 9/27. It bounced back as an invalid address. The fax number still works, but the website pages aren't working - except. of course, for the one where they're selling their software.
I knew I was taking a risk going in, since it was kind of unorthodox and cheap. but I thought maybe they'd discourage most people with the assignments. and have something to offer people who actually followed through. The 30 day "money back" has expired, of course, but I'm going to try and get my money back anyway. It's not "just 50 bucks" to me. I put a lot of time into doing the required work, and also put off searching for another part time job while I was doing it. We're not financially desperate, but we are hurting, just like a lot of other people out there. I'm sick of these cynical CRIMINALS preying on desperate people.They ran an ad in a major newspaper for a couple of weeks just in this city. They spent thousands of dollars doing it, if it was in more than one city. Who knows how many hundreds of people they defrauded? Worse yet, how many other people missed legitimate job opportunities while chasing this illusion?
Anyone who wants to refute this, send me the name and phone number of a real person at this alleged "business", and I'll contact them. If it turns out to be a misunderstanding, I'll post an apology, so I don't get convicted of libel, as the previous poster threatens. But frankly, I'm not worried.
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