You are misunderstanding the terms. The freelancer pays the 15% fee. On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 2:53 PM, olivier jeannel <olivier.jean...@noos.fr>wrote:
> That was my point, no need to pay. > But the site interface is well done. I was thinking something like that > for us could be cool. > Maybe hosted @ si community or RRay. > That's just an idea. But I pretty like what's happening at the moment with > the softimage community. Small community, very helpfull and active (lots of > tuts and giveaways). I believe this kind of tool could help being even more > organized. > > Just a thought > > > Le 08/01/2013 20:34, Eric Lampi a écrit : > > >From the website: > > "Working with TV, Film, VFX or New media? > > It's free to join utopiapeople and we represent you on a non-exclusive > basis. > We take a 15% fee on agency bookings (not permanent)." > I am absolutely against this sort of thing. Paying someone else a hefty > fee just to get introduced to a company that desperately needs you? Be > careful what you wish for, it might not work out for us in the long run, > and I think that as an industry, we really better off discouraging these > people as much as possible. > > What's next? You supply your own software and workstation? Oh yeah, > wait... That's already happening to some people. > > Eric > > > > On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 1:12 PM, Andy Nicholas <a...@andynicholas.com>wrote: > >> It's free to register, but they take 15% commission from your daily rate. >> >> >> >> On 08 January 2013 at 17:40 Javier Vega <javierelas...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> > it is a paying service? Im user of Utopia People, but I think that is a >> paying >> > service just for the companies that search freelancers here. For the >> > freelancers is free. >> > >> > Javier Vega >> > jav...@zao3d.com >> > http://www.zao3d.com >> > http://blog.zao3d.com >> > >> > El 08/01/2013, a las 18:36, olivier jeannel <olivier.jean...@noos.fr> >> > escribió: >> > >> > > Does anyone know this site service ? >> > > http://www.utopiapeople.com/ >> > > >> > > I think the concept is great. I won't use it since this is a paying >> service >> > > (for what I've red). >> > > >> > > Would be nice to have something similar for xsi lancers around the >> globe. >> > > >> > > >> > > Olivier >> > >> > >> >> > > > -- > Freelance 3D and VFX animator > > http://vimeopro.com/user7979713/3d-work > > > -- Freelance 3D and VFX animator http://vimeopro.com/user7979713/3d-work
