MandyReviews 610

You get free membership for 30 days; I wanted to pay for the Premium membership, only to find it one is restricted to 1 skill genre, e.g. acting. So, if you're an actor, who also wants to get voice-over work, then you have to pay £130. Plus VAT for the acting, AND £107. Plus VAT for the voice-over part. There is no way to 'bundle' both, and they don't have any way offers to enable one to do this. It's completely un-acceptable that in the 'free' 30 days one can apply for any job genre, like singing or acting, giving the impression that is what the full membership will entail. Its mis-representation, misleading, and I will be contacting Trading Standards. Utterly unacceptable. Don't go anywhere near them.

In the two years or so that I've had a Mandy/Film & TV Pro profile, I've had three jobs, none of which were paid well or professional. Too many jobs being posted by amateurs who are demanding expertise, years of experience and loads of very expensive equipment that barely meets minimum wage at the hourly rate, then they want you to do extra work outside of the daily rate which ends up breaking the law.

If you want a platform that doesn't rip you off and only deals with professionals, use Production Base.

It went from completely free, to 5 free per month unless you buy a premium membership, now it looks like you can't apply at all unless you pay. What is worse is that with my premium membership which recently expired, for many postings you were redirected to the employer's site to apply rather than using the quick and easy method within Mandy. So it is just not worth it anymore. I have been keeping a spreadsheet of the NYC production companies that have been posting over the years, so I will just start bugging them on my own as I see fit. I find it interesting how often some companies seem to re-post the same job. Are they hiring the wrong people, or are they a toxic environment? Also, I had much more luck years ago when I was YOUNGER and LESS EXPERIENCED and there were infinitely fewer production venues - get the picture?

They send out dozens of so called job listings but not a single person responds when you apply. When I looked at the traffic counter in a 2 month period and 12 people had viewed my profile. I have a feeling that 9 of those visits were from myself looking at the damn profile.
They send out jobs that have nothing to do with what I actually do.
I think they are taking advantage of people that are struggling to find work and every single person I have spoken to about Mandy.com have said it was a scam and a total waste of money.
I wish I had have found the reviews before signing up for a year.
Please don't give them your money!

Think it's a scam. Why would a company only choose to have their listings with Mandy which is a paid service and means that very few crew members will sign up for. Companies want to have access to as many people as possible. They can easily advertise on Craigslist, Indeed, which doesn't charge people to view submissions. Meaning they will get a lot more candidates than Mandy. The listings also seem fake. No one I know has every gotten a job from paying the subscription. I have tons of experience and have never received even an interview request. Ever. There's no way to even know the company's name that's advertising or if it even exists (it doesn't) because they don't give out the company's name. Legitimate companies advertise the name of their company because they want to get the best candidates.

The only job inquires I have received from this site have been from fakes. Luckily if you do research, it's easy to tell since they relay obvious discrepancies from the websites of the companies they are pretending to be. (For example the website will say the company is based in London when the person contacting me is caliming they are based in the us) It truely bothers me that Mandy Crews is handing out my personal information to people who most likley have ill intent. I hate to find out what happens to those who don't do research ahead of time. I have attempted to have them remove my profile from the website on multiple occasions but have been ignored. I also dislike the idea of having to pay to apply to a job, definitely scammy. I haven't spent any money but after my experience as a regular member I refuse to.

I started using Mandy 10 years ago, back then it was a useful site to find short-term production jobs.

About 3 years ago it went downhill fast. Users had to pay £30/month or £200(?) a year just to read job descriptions and apply, this should be illegal but they used a loophole in some 'advertising' law. Insulting.

Since then they've managed to make things worse, people now have to pay for the £200+VAT yearly subscription.

This is absolutely ridiculous, I'd understand if I had to pay a couple of quid to apply for a job (although still wouldn't be too happy about it) but £200?!

People need to stop giving them money so they can either disappear for good or rethink their business model.

Like most businesses, it was better when it was good ol' Mandy before they got bought out buy a bigger, more evil fish!

If you want to browse low/no paying gigs do it on craigslist for free. This site is a complete scam and waste of money. DO NOT SIGN UP FOR A PAID SUBSCRIPTION.

I'm a successful industry professional that's been using Mandy for 10 years. The new site is so disappointing. Mandy is allowing numerous Shoe String Budget and Amateur Project Postings with SUPER LOW DAY RATES to be listed in the Standard JOBS section, instead of forcing them onto the LO/NO PAY Opportunities board. This is highly unprofessional of Mandy and will gradually crush the already stagnant day rates of experienced production professionals. Please, Mandy, just enforce Low Rate/No Pay postings and ensure they stay within the correct lo/no pay "Opportunities" section, not on the "Jobs" board! Ex: $14/hr for Experienced Editor and $125/day for DP w/Camera are not standard industry rates for pros! Those are intern rates. I don't mind paying for highly professional industry sites, but allowing amateur/shoe string project postings in the Experienced/JOBS is inexcusable. In addition, Mandy now forces applicants to submit their Mandy profile as their "resume," when applying, instead of the option to only send a PDF resume and PDF cover letter. Experienced pros have too many credits to use a simple profile as a resume. Ugh! If these Low Rate and Resume Issues continue, many long term Mandy users will drop the membership and $15/mo dues, and move permanently to more professional job sites.

Have to pay to apply to jobs, crazy they are only loosing customers/candidates for the people paying to post the jobs. If you pay to post a job you expect to have the widest array of candidates available. Well not here you only get the people who are paying to subscribe to the job board. Very bad business practice makes no scenes other then to try to collect as much money as possible before there site looses all the customers. DOOMED TO FAIL...

I joined Mandy/Film & TV pro once i became a pro Make up artist. After paying £120.00 a year for a paid membership. I never got offered any jobs posted on the site. I wasted £120.00 of my own money on this garbage site. They only have very few jobs advertised for make up artist. Even though they claim your application gets to the top as you have a premium membership.ABSOLUTE LIES !
I just think Film & TV pro is a travesty.
Bring back MANDY which was free to apply for jobs.

I've been working in the film industry for about 15 years now. When I was starting out Mandy.com used to be a really great free resource to find work. My first few jobs came from there and they were high-level festival-quality films, with professional crews. Now, I feel like all of these job listing sites: Mandy, Media-Match, Findfilmwork.com (Below The Line Magazine) are just making money off of the vast amount of people in the industry looking for work. I tried Mandy for two years and was never contacted for any job I applied for except one time. I got one interview for a production that said they were in talks with Netflix, only to find that it was two girls who very recently graduated from film school, had no experience, and no meeting with Netflix. I also never received callbacks from any production on Below The Line Listings, what's worse is that even after I canceled they kept charging me and I had to work with my bank for 6 months straight to get these guys to stop. I think these sites just turned into money-makers, I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of listings are false, they put out just enough to keep people interested. The only thing that would keep me interested is seeing results. The sad truth is that not many films are filming in LA anymore, most are going to other states or Canada. The best thing is to contact your states film commission to see whats in production, it's free.

Mandy.com is a disgrace to the industry. I am in communication with authorities that are willing to shut these criminals down. Blue Compass, the company that owns Mandy, is a terribly unprofessional, sloppy and dishonest company.