Kill fees?

[Nikka]

welcome to the porn biz Mandy

[GroobySteven]

Hi Tara and Mandy,

I just saw those photo's and i really love this one, and i would love to see a whole set of the two of you doing yoga.

Nah, someone just dropped their coke...

[tsmandy]

Yeah, the only problem is that I have no recourse other than to not work for said company again. It hurts me more than it does them if I choose not to work with them further. I think I've been burned enough by this person that the occasional paid gig isn't going to make up for the damage to my reputation (not to mention finances) that occurs when a friend of mine wastes 2 days of their life going to LA and not getting paid. It is seriously fucked up to dick around a pregnant women.

I'm all for unions, but in TS porn I think you would have more scabs than members.

I think in those circumstances Mandy, you were entitled to more than a kill fee, they should have paid you the full agreed amount as it was a fuck up on their part and just general mis-management.

As all of my producers are freelance, we don't have a set policy in place but I know PK has had to pay recently when a male performer flaked and so has Herman. I also had to pay a model a kill fee in Hawaii of about 30% as my camera's died on me a few years ago. In my opinion, if a model is there and ready to go at the agreed time then a fee should be paid if the shoot doesn't go ahead ... depending on how far she came and what her expenses were should be the fee.

I wonder if producers can also get kill fees from the models when they don't turn up, are 2 hrs later with no make-up, are unable to get erect or cum ... because I'd be fucking minted!

This kind of comes back to our discussion about a "union" or group of models to have a charter which would lay these rules out and to call out producers which mess you around.

[tsmandy]

Hi Tara and Mandy,

I just saw those photo's and i really love this one, and i would love to see a whole set of the two of you doing yoga.

I was just teaching Tara some basic stretches, I don't know if that will be happening anytime soon. Though I have fantasized about doing a yoga class gangbang.

[jesseflo]

any real professional company is supposed to pay you a kill fee if its their fault for cancelling and you have a greement,like a contract.they should have payed u something for your troubles. sorry you went through all that but hopefully you got a great scene for your site at least!

[tsmandy]

any real professional company is supposed to pay you a kill fee if its their fault for cancelling and you have a greement,like a contract.they should have payed u something for your troubles. sorry you went through all that but hopefully you got a great scene for your site at least!

Yeah, it was kind of a raw deal for sure. But all is well that ends well I suppose, at least I own the content myself now, I just have less money to move with than I had hoped.

[jamiecoxxdotcom]

In mainstream, kill fees are enforced by a models agency. The contracts are already in place between a model's representation and the production companies they work with - they also go both ways. When I was in LA with Megan Murray she wound up having to pay a couple of kill fees for shoots she couldn't make it to, on the flip side she was paid a kill fee when she refused to work on set where there was drug use by staff and talent. Without official representation with a known agency, trans are shit out of luck. So basically, we're all shit out of luck.