I contacted Miles Shumilak (owner/editor) of The LIST Magazine about possibly featuring my band on his website, we spoke on the phone and he agreed it would be a great idea. There was no mention of cost at all.
After we filled out interview questions, emailed back and forth about promotion details, and submitted photos, he requested payment to "cover operations costs" of posting our info. Since we'd gotten that far, I simply paid it through PayPal.
Weeks went by and nothing went up on the website. I emailed to follow up, to which he said they were incredibly busy and not to worry, the feature would be posted soon. I followed up several weeks later. No response.
Months later, he has still never responded to any communications. And of course, no feature was ever posted.
It has been brought to my attention that Miles has run this scam on other musicians as well.
To any bands out there looking for good promotion partners, DO NOT work with Miles Shumilak or The List. He is running a scam to take your money and give nothing in return.
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