WHen I first started oin Voices.com, like many others, it was a smaller site populated with mostly trained talent. One of my first gigs there was doing an in flight commercial for Japan Airlines that wound up paying me a total of $5,100. In the past few years though, the site has generally become more of a distraction than anything else.
Most of the work is priced too low for me to consider it and since I'm often out working, my response time means I'm often at the end of a long list of auditioners. Unfortunately, unlike Voice123 one doesn't know how many others have auditioned, nor is there a cutoff.
And while one could say there is no rating system, remember there is always a rating system. Things are said about talent everyday. With V123 there has been an attempt to make this a useful thing for both talent and hirers, although few talent seem to be vocal about any useful potential it might have. (Cup is neither half empty or full, but always in need of water?)
The people who run the Voices.com site are super nice and helpful. By comparison, the hipper and trendier than thou folks at Voice123 can't be btoerhed with returning phone calls or other average courtesies. I have given up on them and have just categorized them as the party going South Beach, black t-shirt wearing types they seem to want to be portrayed as.
Personally, if you ain't got training and don't know what you're doing, neither place is where you should be. I hear talk about the global marketplace, but after hearing a few hundred demos from wanabees on both sites, I'd say the marketplace has a bunch of vendors selling spoiled meat.
Nothing will substitute for lack of skills and knowledge, and giving it away for $1.99 or free won't help either.
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