Originally Posted by rayadp05

I don't understand why you would need to pay a $600.00 kill fee. The agent was the person who cancelled the shoot....and that requires you to pay $600.00? What exactly is the purpose of paying the fee? What did you get in return from her? Absolutely nothing but a cancelled shoot. A shoot that wasn't even cancelled by you.

I've been shooting for 6 years now and have shot over 250 models and a kill fee is something that has never been discussed. I wouldn't care if the agent cancelled, the model cancelled or even if I cancelled a shoot, I ain't paying shit because of a cancellation. I do work with very amateur girls so perhaps there is a difference there but it still seems very odd to me that you would be required to pay because of a shoot that was cancelled by her agent. Perhaps, you are the one that should be getting paid for wasting your time by setting up a shoot for a model that wasn't even going to show up.

Originally Posted by dyna mo

perhaps *kill fee* is a generic term for *i had to pay my crew and all the shit not covered by the agent due to a flake*?

Originally Posted by Mutt

The kill fee was probably for the house rented for the shoot, those are expensive homes Dean rents and you can't just say 'oh the house i agreed to rent for 700 dollars, won't be needing it, model flaked' - plus he may have paid his assistant and the makeup artist a kill fee.

these girls are rude fuckers, on expensive shoots there are multiple people who lose money when they flake.

Originally Posted by rayadp05

Yeah, I figured it must be a situation like that. That sucks.