I had a bad experience using the site. Both from the person who hired me and the site itself. (to be fair, this was my first audio book, but I have many friends who do VO as well and when I told them what was happening, they were also suspicious) I use voices 123 to gigs here and there, and I got a message asking if I was interested in doing an audio book narration. I was excited because it was my first audio book. We agreed upon the sum of $150 flat (which is a rip off for 30,000 words btw) but I was under the impression that it was for the narration only. So I started doing the work and the manuscript sent to me was riddled with errors. So when I brought it up, he asked me to edit it! the whole thing! I asked for more money and he refused. So, being the rookie I am, I said ok, just this once (he wanted to contract me for more). So fast forward a week, I finish it completely, he then asks me if he can pay me out side of the site, that's when alarm bells in my head started going off. So I thought about it and he refused to communicate at all through ACX and would only communicate on Voices 123. He also used several different first names. When it was all said and done and I was uploading it, he asked me to redo the audio because it was too quite. After being jerked around and offered 1/4th of what I should be getting, I refused (there are other weird details I didn't include in this review). When I finally washed my hands of the issue, I tried informing ACX of the issue and they were seriously no help AT ALL. No one there, on the phone or through email, gave a crap that this dude was scamming artists like me. He even said he had 7 book on the go. So I don't know if I maybe had a crappy first time, but needless to say, it soured me to doing audio books. After doing a bit of digging the rate I should have gotten was 160 per hour at my level. Not 150 flat for 50+ hours of work (the editing included) I would not recommend this site to any one looking to get into VO. Not with the current level of service and scammers on there.
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