[Julie Williams]

Right on, Bob! We should be thanking them!

Bry,
As a person who has hired talent off of both voice123 and voices.com, I can tell you that it would be a logistical nightmare to personally thank the hundreds of talent who's auditions I heard (and I did listen to every single one--as a courtesy to the talent who took the time to audtion, because I know their time is valuable!) But the one time I did email to tell the second choice that I had hired someone, but that they were great and I was keeping their demo for future work....... the email from the site's system sent them a message that they got the job! THen I had to explain that they didn't get it but that I just wanted to tell them they were awesome.. How stupid did I feel!?!?!?

From the talent's perspective, I've had people email me and thank me for an audition when I didn't get the job... and all I could think of was... "YOu don't have to thank me... I don't have time for this... I'm glad everyone doesn't clutter up my email with thank you anyway notes...cos I've got work to do!" Seriously, can you imagine receiving an email from neveryone you auditioned for? I'd start deleting them and perhaps delete one from someone who was trying to hire me!

One thing I do appreciate, though, is a few of my agents have auto replies on their audition emails that say, "Your audition has been received." At least I know they got it.