You can see
it on the layout of the message. Those offering that you know already from the
start that it would even work. If you read a car ad saying this:

Rent my
car. You get the chance to rent my kind of old car. You pay me a monthly fee
and you get access to my car if it is available. Of course when you drive it
you have to fill it up with full gas even how much the tank is empty when you start.

That is not
a good deal for you. It’s a good deal for me. If you really need a car and can’t
get it in another way. Well then it could be a kind of a good deal. It’s not
perfect but I’m so desperate that I need it. Right now though I think you can
just go down to the nearest car rental and get one on a better deal.

Also, the access,
you only gets it when I’m not using it. You never know maybe I use very often
so you are paying rent for a thing you can’t use.

Of course this
is quite clear as a stupid deal. The thing in the music industry you get
offerings like this from artists on a quite regular basis. Sure it’s another terminology,
but the principals are the same. You should work for free, don’t get any
security or rights and I can kick you out anytime I want.

Okey the
artist really not understand that they are saying this. They just thinking
mainly what is best for them.

I got this
deal on the table a week ago. We want you to find a record label for us. You
can borrow or songs, you don’t get any rights in them. And if you find a deal
with a record label you get 10%.

I was most
wondering 10% of what?

10% of the
upfront payment from the label was the answer.

This
actually not coming from an artist, this came from a manager, a pretty know
manager. So in reality I should do the mangers job and maybe get paid for it.
Most deals actually don’t have a prepaying so the reality is that I would with
90% don’t get paid.

If this
band was very famous then it’s another story. A bit same as if I need the car.
Now it was totally unknown and the manger has been around to all labels and I
guess no one really had an interest for this project.

Even more
funnier is that I thought it was amusing so I actually said we could take a
meeting in the city since I had 2 hours to kill between two meetings (read I
try to get a cup of free coffee). But they were scheduling around and in the
end they couldn’t meet me up on normal office hours, just in the evening. I
never got back with a new time.