florenceflying.... I do work for Bizzykidz and would like to know exactly what you mean by you 'have prove' and 'it is on writing'. The company director is Debi Clark and would appreciate your contacting her if you have any grievances that you wish to air. No agency would ever threaten to take a parent to court and to suggest so is utterly ridiculous. If a parent was to make slanderous remarks then that would of course be different, but there would be no threat as it would merely be handed over to the company solicitors to deal with.
In response to you asking what your child has been submitted for, no agency keeps records of that, so that is most likely why you were told that. Bizzykidz receive many queries EVERY day for children. I have today submitted 9 children just for one job for the Science Museum and the client may not select any of those that I have submitted.I hope that they will, of course, but cannot affect any decision the client decides to go with, nor do they tell us why, if they decide not to select any of our suggestions. We have today dealt with 8 different assignments in this manner, so it would be ridiculous for any parent to expect us to keep record of all that we have submitted their child for, when indeed, we could have anything up to 200 children a week out to clients and all waiting for a decision. Once we have submitted a selection of children, we simply move on to the next client query and deal with that, with the previous one being filed with a date for the proposed shoot being written on the top of it. Once the shoot date has passed, should none of those submitted be chosen, then the file is shredded as it would be of no use to us if one of our children has not been assigned to it. How could we therefore tell you what your child has been submitted for if they had not be chosen?
Bizzykidz do not charge a representation fee, unlike other agencies and the fee that is charged is for set up costs only. That fee is still lower than all other agencies YEARLY fees and representation is then free until the child reaches 17.
I suggest that in future, if anyone has any queries about Bizzykidz, or indeed any other agency, please have the courtesy to call that agency in person and not air unfounded remarks on website chatrooms such as this. Any reputable agency would welcome a concerned parents call and most certainly prefer that have postings such as this be brought to their attention, when they are working extremely hard at their business, such as we are.
For the record also, no-one from this agency has, to my knowledge, ever replied to any postings on this, or any other chatroom, whilst claiming to be a member of the public. As one mum has already said, we are far too busy with work for our children to be doing that. I have replied to this email as I received 8 calls over the weekend from parents that are with our agency and were worried about our reputation; one of which is currently appearing in the Bold 2 In 1 commercial and has had 10 assignments through our agency since January this year. The father was going to reply to the postings with his experiences, but was concerned that people would accuse him of working for BIZZYKIDZ!!
I have over 10 years experience in this industry adn would be pleased to offer any information, or advice that any parent may have that is work related (what to expect at an audition - how often do children get paid etc). In future if anyone wants to talk about our agency in general PLEASE DO SO TO THE AGENCY AND NOT TO A COMPUTER! !!