Steven Lowell, the Quality Assurance Manager at V123 reads my blog!
He noticed my rant about "inactivity" and guided me to a blog he himself wrote in October on this very topic.
HERE is the link.
I also heard from Julian Castillo of V123, who replied to me with the following.
"The inactive status is just a way to let potential clients now
how long you could take to respond if they contact you. The reason why
this was implemented is because in the past the voice seekers contacted
talents that do not check their Voice123 account often and therefore
they did not get a reply on a timely manner, because of this we lost
valuable voice seekers that were willing to hire Voice123 talents. To
keep your account active all you need to do is log in regularly."
I appreciate the timliness of their response.
In the interest of balanced journalism, I'll withold any more comments and leave it to my readers to decide on their own the efficacy of their policy.
CourVO
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I’ve given it a lot of thought since I was a commentator on the original post and I have read the response.
The thought that just kept rattling in my head was: if it sounds like BS and it smells like BS it must be BS (abbreviation only observed out of professional courtesy to the blog owner as the full impact of the word would be more than fitting.
If a company does anything to sully a client’s brand, as does their “mark” for those who don’t log in, then they hurt the client. Oh yes, it IS the voice over talent who is the client. V123 by their actions continue ignore that fact. Their words lose their strength in the wake of their actions and it has always seemed to be the case.
For me I don’t care but there are so many newbies who get played by their system, it seems wrong.
Best always,
- Peter
(CourVO sez: I’m with you 1000%, Peter. I have more to say, and I’ll do it to you in private e-mail)