ATTN. ALL PHOTOGRAPHERS: WARNING! (Midtown West)

(found today in New York, 6/2)

Reply to:gigs-nypv4-1202255825@craigslist.org ^{[Errors when replying to ads?]}

Date: 2009-06-02, 6:45PM EDT

Don't work for Bachrach Menswear - they're going bankrupt and have resorted to finding struggling photographers on Craigslist who jump at the chance to work with them, hassle them until they either quit or get fired before they get paid - then serve up bankruptcy papers instead of sending a check 

Re: GRPAHIC DESIGNER NEEDED - ALBUM ARTWORK (New York City) ((reality))

Reply to: gigs-tfmrm-1123708908@craigslist.org ^{[Errors when replying to ads?]}

Date: 2009-04-15, 1:37PM EDT

Really? You are going to have designers "compete" for $20?!? You think you know how long it takes to create an album cover? I suggest you do it yourself and stop wasting other people's time. What exactly would you do for $20, much less the possibility for $20? I doubt it would be too much. Learn what business is about and then post again. 
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I am looking for someone to make an album cover for a band. 

Pay is $20 via Paypal. No money/check option. 

This shouldn't take any graphic designer more than an hour to do. 

I give you the band name and album name, you do everything else. 
Must look hip and cool and professional. 

ALL SAMPLES MUST BE WATERMARKED. 
I expect to be getting mulitple responses and will let people design it. We will be "buying" three different designs from three different designers to give the band an option. 

We only pay for the versions we want , which are then un-watermarked. Thanks. 

• Location: (reality)
• it's NOT ok to contact this poster with services or other commercial interests
• Compensation: no pay

PostingID: 1123708908

Freelance Graphic Designer (NY)

(found in NY Gigs)
Reply to: gigs-s7xxa-1104852084@craigslist.org [Errors when replying to ads?]
Date: 2009-04-03, 2:55AM EDT


Take the "Free" out of Freelance.

Stop working for "portfolio pieces" and stop accepting next to nothing offers.

Buy yourself a copy of the Graphic Artists Guild Handbook: Pricing & Ethical Guidelines, and realize that logos do not cost $50. and websites do not cost $100.


Location: NY
it's NOT ok to contact this poster with services or other commercial interests
Compensation: no pay

Graphic Designer for Identity (NYC)

Reply to: gigs-txtd4-1083006428@craigslist.org [Errors when replying to ads?]
Date: 2009-03-19, 9:41PM EDT


http://wegripe.ning.com

I for one am tired of the onslaught of insulting posts and even worse, the people who don't pay or try to rip you off once you have done your work.

I have created a network that helps inform others of people who may be doing things of this nature.

If you want to put a stop to this, or at least a dent in this nonsense and create a sense of growing awareness of who the culprits are, I ask that you join the site, anonymity is completely up to you, and you post your findings. This is not a request, simply letting others know that there is an avenue which we can take to voice information and not have our information shot down, while flagging theirs.

Thanks again to all who have already signed up.

RE: Retoucher needed for book project ((West Village))

Found this call to arms/posts today on CL:

Reply to: gigs-ttrdg-1077892716@craigslist.org [Errors when replying to ads?]
Date: 2009-03-16, 4:49PM EDT


Woww, that's a beatiful copy-writing.... so many powerful words just to end it up saying:
WORK FOR US FOR FREE , I wonder if you guys pay the rent with those beautiful poem.

Digital artists united, no work for free, no work for cents, no full time jobs with internships outfits,
expose the tricky scammers and abusers.

Let's begin to create a blacklist of tricky scammers/abusers:
Ian Mazursky from prepressexpress.com --- Abuser (create fake ability tests to get work for free from applicants)
Georgelias -- Astoria Queens - Abuser --- Hire for Graphic Arts training's and later after claims didn't learn or that was not what he was looking for and deny to pay.

Please colleagues let's get United, post your bad experiences, post your black list.

Re: Students looking for work (sounds like a rapist)

Reply to: see below
Date: 2009-03-02, 8:25AM EST


Please tell me noone will respond to the post below. Everything about this screams perversion on a cold night. Rent a movie you freak, or do things the old fashioned way, and actually find a date. Craigslist isn't girl's gone wild and you're looking for some college female to satisfy your fantasy interning tonight? YOU ARE A LAME AND A LOSER, GET A LIFE...

Here is the original post from this pervert------
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This position is ideal for students. I am looking for an intern to work with me tonight in my office. Please be a female, organized, respectful. The pay is $30 hour. Send pic and brief bio is interested. I am located of the A/D train in Manhattan
If interested respond asap...

RE:artistswanted.org interns needed- marketing/social networking wiz (screwaninterntown)

(I'll be going straight to Google for FLSA standards after posting this. Found just now in Creative Gigs)

Reply to: gigs-1053259791@craigslist.org [Errors when replying to ads?]
Date: 2009-02-27, 4:11PM EST


NO, the duties of this job are not an "intern" position"
More bottom feeders trying to get labor for free under the guise of "intern"
READ THIS:

The U.S. Dept. of Labor utilizes the below listed criteria, as created by the U.S. Supreme Court
(Walling v. Portland Terminal Co. (1947) 330 U.S. 148), to determine whether a person is really
an intern, or whether they are an employee who must be paid and treated according to the
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA):

1. The training is similar to that which would be given in a vocational school;
2. The training is for the benefit of the trainee;
3. The trainees do not displace regular employees, and work under close observation;
4. The employer that provides the training derives no immediate advantage from the
activities of the trainees and on occasion the employer’s operations may actually be impeded;