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Ad Kids

Casey of Glenside PA (12/07/08)
We were sent a letter shortly after our daughter's birth, we then called the agency and they set an appointment with the New York office with a man named Don Voight, we were told if our daughter did not cry while he walked her around and into the next room for 30 seconds then we were in...we needed to pay NOW $680. With a three day period to send a certified letter to his NY office and in order to break the contract.

We searched more into AdKids and Mr. Don Voight and found out he has been scamming many parents and children for many years! My husband and I feel so stupid and gullable!

Losing $680 as well as feeling embarrassed and ashamed as parents that this man, Don Voight fooled and tricked us!

Jennifer of Staten Island NY (03/09/07)
A few months after my son was born I received a letter in the mail telling me that my child has what is takes to become a model. I still have original letter. It said to call Ad Kids and make an appointment to meet with an agent. I did and went in to the city a couple days later. A Mr. Voihght had met with us and told us not everyone gets in and he would have to walk out of the room with my son into the front and if he didn't cry he wass in.

Everything went well and then he told us we had to pay $650. I asked if we could think about it and he said no it had to be today or nothing. Being new parents and super naive, we went along with him and paid. It wasn't until later that we realized that there was about 20 kids in the waiting room all with leters and after speaking to 4 women with newborns in my neighborhood, they too all received the same letter.

I have put in a complaint with Better Business Bureu but Ad Kids refuses to respond to them. There is so much more to this story that I would like to share so please feel free to contact me any time.

I lost all my money and received not one photo or one audition.

Beata of Lake Ronkonkoma NY (10/03/06)
They signed a contract with me to represent my son in an ad/ modeling bussiness, collected money for services which were never delivered. I have a small claims court order for AD KIDS to pay me back dated December of 2005, which I have no ways of collecting because they do not respond to subpoenas and they used a small bank in Illinois to cash my payment. That bank doesn't want to respond to out of state subpoena.

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