Is this just a dating site?

Hey Ellie,

I’m really sorry to hear that you’ve experienced that. I think those sorts of people do tend to target new models. I would strongly advise that you report and block those accounts if you haven’t already, because the PP team take these things very seriously!

Keep your head up, keep applying for casting calls and maybe create your own casting calls to find collaborators on here and build some great references!

I hope that helps!

Extraordinary!

EllieBelle66 said

Male models send me photos, and I say, ouch, you do realise I am 58? And they reply with, that was 1992... Here is me now. 

Report every single one of these guys.

Goodness me, wasn't expecting to hear that.

I'd be very selective as to whom you answer enquiries to, and look at the models who've left references. Do your own due diligence. Contact them yourself.

i have had messages which seem to be offering a bit more than modelling. I suppose that is  just part of being online these days. 

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Unfocussed Mike said

EllieBelle66 said

Male models send me photos, and I say, ouch, you do realise I am 58? And they reply with, that was 1992... Here is me now. 

Report every single one of these guys.

Absolutely this  - there's no place for them on PP. 

There are an awful lot of so call maleodel here who ate just looking for hook ups.

Likewise, there also a lot of GWC. Easy to spot, just look at their quality of work.

It's a case,of report and block.

Even when you do get to the real people, you will still get enquiries which come to nothing.

You just need to be diligent.

Sorry to hear of your awful experiences.

As already stated, report and block. Your mail exchanges here will provide the admin team the evidence of your complaints and they will remove offenders from the site pronto. Absolutely no place for people like that on PP.

So sorry to hear about your experience!

I had a couple of cases when 'togs' contacted for a shoot but then just tried to arrange a date, but never to the horrible extend you described. Should consider myself lucky, I guess. Everyone already wrote about reporting, so I'll just echo that.

There are decent photographers in Scotland, though (feel free to check my recommendations and send a message, if you wish).

Hope you can find modelling work you joined this platform for. Best of luck!

EllieBelle66 said

Hey, 

I joined PP because I fell subject to modelling scam and I wanted to answer some message threads asking whether that 'modelling platform was a scam(which it was!) I  got some helpful advice, and so I took out a VIP package, and stayed. 

Since then.. I apply for a lot of paid casting calls, and quite a few on a TFP basis. As yet I haven't had a single shoot. But I spend a lot of time answering emails and chatting to people; who mostly want to just chat,  and who want to exchange fruity photos. Male models send me photos, and I say, ouch, you do realise I am 58? And they reply with, that was 1992... Here is me now. 

And  togs... interested in a shoot, but then, no actual date and could I just see a photo of you in your frillies? 

I get that, as humans we are social animals. I also get, that as models on here go, I don't have that much to offer... But is there a button I could press that says  * Genuine enquiries only*? 

So ... any model's age and location and levels are going to be major determining factors in who wants to work with them - and young is more popular than mature, fully dressed is less popular than at least partly undressed, and Dundee isn't a big catchment area..   

There definitely are people who don't come here for the photography* ... those of us who are fervently wish people would report those who are a nuisance - and sending / soliciting / swapping pictures which don't have a place in someone's port is probably grounds for a response of block  & report.  

My port has something like "I try to give all mails a civil answer, but when people haven't bothered to look at what I shoot, that's not guaranteed" - which is better than "No timewasters!" Sadly there isn't a way of pre-filtering those and models can only block / report them. 

(* Anyone know the old joke which ends "and the bear says 'you don't come here for the hunting, do you" ?)

Ellie -- I'm very sorry to hear of your experiences, but well done for speaking out. 

In common with a few others on this thread I'd urge you to report these people to Admin. We know that these guys exist, but Admin can't root them out unless they're reported. 

I very much hope that, from now on, your experience of this site is much, much better. 

Im not surprised to hear that this goes on, but I am surprised at the possible scale to which it might be happening. A model told me last week that she has been receiving very odd requests from pne photographer, whose idea for a shoot included dinner and wine, and now texts her good morning and good night to her mobile phone, as if some kind of relationship exists. 

My advice to her and yourself is the same as others have mentioned, report to admin , do not move conversations to other platforms.

hope you have better luck soon, there are many more good people on this site than bad.

Valis Volkova said

Hey Ellie,

I’m really sorry to hear that you’ve experienced that. I think those sorts of people do tend to target new models. I would strongly advise that you report and block those accounts if you haven’t already, because the PP team take these things very seriously!

Keep your head up, keep applying for casting calls and maybe create your own casting calls to find collaborators on here and build some great references!

I hope that helps!

That does, help. Thank you, and I'll stick with it.