Comments on: More on Laray Carr

By: Jessalynn Coolbaugh

Jessalynn Coolbaugh — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 17:01:31 +0000

I think the whole LCP thing has been beaten as far as it can be. A lot of good people got burned (myself included); but hopefully we’ve moved on – lesson learned.

The lesson here, my gentle colleagues, is that as freelancers, we owe it to ourselves to get *everything* in writing. And if we don’t like the original terms of a contract…negotiate. Contracts are made to be changed. If you make what you believe are vital changes to a contract, and the client doesn’t approve – move on. There are other, bigger, fish in that sea who will be more than happy to apply your talent, and pay you accordingly.

Thanks to Deb for providing so many *honest* outlets where we can ply our talents; and Greetings and Salutations to all my fellow writers.

To our success and continued education…

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 16:13:36 +0000

Laray Carr/LC Publications/LCP Media signed a contract with myself for TWENTY FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS to develop all of there websites… when asked for deposits they said “our CEO has been ripped off in the past by freelancers so doesnt like to pay deposits, so we did a deal that we would send over initial concepts then we would recieve the deposit that we asked for…. we sent over the concepts which in there own words “LOVED” did we ever recieve the deposit?! NO! Did we ever have any more contact from them? NO! When we hired a private investigator and they couldnt find any information on the company (at the time) nor the owners (there names didnt bring up ANY information) alarm bells started ringing… we sent an email stating that we’d had a private investigator look into them and was puzzled that they just seemed to be non existant they replied “we decided to have our in house team to do the design work instead, your more than willing to come and meet us at our offices, meet our investors to prove we are real” when we replied to say we would love to fly over from EUROPE to meet them and would gladly pay for the flights ourselves and not bill them, we didnt recieve anymore responces….. are they a real company?! Do they have any money?! Do they have a rich investor?! in my opinon…. HELL NO!

By: Sheri

Sheri — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 23:09:41 +0000

I did about 10 very long articles for them and just today got a letter saying that ‘Hope” is no longer in charge of freelance writing. So I wrote to the guy who supposedly took over and basically I said “I was supposed to get paid Sept 20 and here is is Oct 2 and no money.” He wrote back and said the articles are now mine and I can publish them anywhere…I was not going to get paid because they didn’t apparently use any of them. The weird thing is the typos in his emails. I think it’s a huge sham so don’t get too involved time-wise with them. Personally, I would not send my personal info again. Grrr

Good luck with Laray Carr.

By: Mary

Mary — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 17:34:35 +0000

Hi Gang:

Yes it’s offical I wrote several articles for Laray Carr and have yet to see a penny for my August work and probably will not. I sent an e-mail only to have come back and to be sent to someone else handling the account. The thing is they will probably sell my articles and they will be used somewhere.
Live and Learn.

By: William Campbell

William Campbell — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 16:06:27 +0000

Hmm, this is an interesting controversy that I’ll certainly be following. I’m definitely learning from all your advice, guys!

By: MIcah

MIcah — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 15:29:00 +0000

Connie posted that she did the magazine covers for the website on the Aug. 24th blog. They are just mock ups not the actual magazines.

By: Cindy M

Cindy M — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 15:21:26 +0000

Is it me or did they get Amy Winehouse’s name wrong on the cover of their “Centerstage” magazine? They have her name as Amy Winehurst. It is Amy “Winehouse” isn’t it? And the picture they used is listed in Google images as coming from a daddys.com blog. Hmmmm…..

By: Ann G.

Ann G. — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 12:41:12 +0000

What I noticed is that one picture – the cover with Carrie Underwood – I thought she looked younger it in, so I did a search. That picture dates back to 2005 and is copyrighted by Arista Records.
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.popentertainment.com/carrie_image18_lo.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.popentertainment.com/underwood.htm&h=394&w=288&sz=466&hl=en&start=14&um=1&tbnid=lPl9c4lYrInPWM:&tbnh=143&tbnw=105&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dcarrie%2Bunderwood%26svnum%3D10%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26rls%3DTSHA,TSHA:2005-45,TSHA:en%26sa%3DN

Now maybe they got permission, but in my thinking if they’d really interviewed her, they would have had a photographer on hand to take a current picture.

By: Cindy

Cindy — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 07:58:03 +0000

Take a good look at what are supposed to be the magazines on their site. Those are not magazines, but what are supposed to look like them. Look at the lettering, the wording, etc. Very poorly done, the lettering runs off the edges, the letters are run horribly rogether, etc. These are not real magazine covers, they are obviously something quickly thrown together, probably from Photoshop. Look at them closely, and you will see.

By: Anon for this

Anon for this — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 20:14:00 +0000

Quincy Carr is a known scammer:

http://www.glowhost.com/hall-of-shame/