Adrienne Aurora wrote:
I'm going to be a go-go dancer at a special event at a club and I did a shoot for the promo (club flier). They didn't have the contract ready at the time of the shoot. I was told that I would get a CD of proofs, not any retouched. The party planner calls me a week later ranting that I need to come up there to sign the release so that they can print the fliers. Meanwhile the photographer is now saying if I want a CD of the proofs it will be $50 o.O  So, I'm like I will sign the release when I get my CD (as promised) free of charge. They agree and I meet and sign the release and am handed a CD. Here's the good part: when I get home and pop in the CD it's blank.

WOW! That sucks!  Have some one carefully read over the contract you signed.
Hope you won't have to be obligated to this event. By the way, with your looks, you
don't need them (club scumbags) anyway! Best of luck!

Adrienne Aurora wrote:
I'm going to be a go-go dancer at a special event at a club and I did a shoot for the promo (club flier). They didn't have the contract ready at the time of the shoot. I was told that I would get a CD of proofs, not any retouched. The party planner calls me a week later ranting that I need to come up there to sign the release so that they can print the fliers. Meanwhile the photographer is now saying if I want a CD of the proofs it will be $50 o.O  So, I'm like I will sign the release when I get my CD (as promised) free of charge. They agree and I meet and sign the release and am handed a CD. Here's the good part: when I get home and pop in the CD it's blank.

Sorry that happened, Adrienne.  Only suggestions:  Either (a) string them along until you get a proper CD, then have no further dealings with them, or (b) have no further dealings with them.

WG Rowland wrote:
Fuckers..

Does the release say you'd get a CD of shots?  I hope so.. That was a dick thing to do.. (Them, not you).. And I'm hoping they shot themselves in the foot by giving you some legal ammunition..

No, just the usual they have the rights to use my image blah blah.

Stephen Dawson wrote:
Do you have any reason, now, to do the dancing gig?

I don't get paid til I dance.

Shyly wrote:
It seems so goofy for them to deliberately shaft you at this point, since you  haven't danced yet, that I'm wondering if the blank CD could have been an honest mistake.  Have you talked to them about it yet?

No, cause I'm just so pissed. I can't stand the photog- but I know it doesn't really have anything to do with the party planner, so I shouldn't go bitch at her.
But the club paid the photog, so she shouldn't be trying to get money from me too.

Vivus Denuo wrote:

Sorry that happened, Adrienne.  Only suggestions:  Either (a) string them along until you get a proper CD, then have no further dealings with them, or (b) have no further dealings with them.

Yeah, I don't plan on having anything to do with them after I get paid at the event.
I'm thinking now I need to ask for cash not a check!!

Adrienne Aurora wrote:

No, cause I'm just so pissed. I can't stand the photog- but I know it doesn't really have anything to do with the party planner, so I shouldn't go bitch at her.
But the club paid the photog, so she shouldn't be trying to get money from me too.

Is it possible they told you one thing and then told the photographer something else? Maybe they told her that she could sell the CD and told you that you'd get one as part of your payment. It *may* not be completely the photographer's fault. Just something else to consider.
  But really; why these people choose to treat you like crap I'll never know. I agree with a previous poster -- it is their loss to be sure.

  -P-

Glamour Boulevard wrote:
Maybe the image files are in a format your computer will not recognize without the proper program to see them.

That's happened to me before though and my comp shows an error or says something about not recognizing the files.