Steve Blechman is cheap !!

[GetItOnNY]

Listen I dont have Steve Blechman, but I didnt like what he did to Dave and John.Its was just wrong in every shape and form.
Shawn Ray, and Flex Wheeler is doing the same thing and they still have there jobs....Anyways Here is my point.
My athlete did a big spread in MD, and it was alot of pages.
Steve didnt pay the guy a dime!!!!
I was like WTF.
Steve has never had to struggle for money, not one second of his life.
He was given Twinlab.You got these poor athletes who dont make any money unless they get a contract.
Steve Charges something $10,000 per page per month to advertise in his magazine.Yet he puts these 5-10 page spreads on these athletes, and doesnt pay then a dime.Why not give the athlete atleast $500 or $1000 for his time.The athletes eats trains and works his ass off, and yu make money off of the athletes why not pay them?
Steve can I have free advertising in your magazine for free?
Hello no!!!! Bodybuilders, have alot of expenses, you got food, supplements,anabolics and everything else.
Bodybuilding is a very very expensive sport.Just eating costs $200 a week.
Steve Blechamn if you are going to charge supplement companies money to advertise in your magazine, then you should pay athletes for photo shoots.Steve $500 or even $1000 bucks is like $20 to you.
Your a friggin Multi-Millionaire, why not help a few guys out with some money.It is the right thing to do.You know it, I know, the athletes know it.

[Pete Nice]

Did you get the protein powder test results back yet big man?

[Mr Nobody]

Blechman is a schome

[Blockhead]

Listen I dont have Steve Blechman, but I didnt like what he did to Dave and John.Its was just wrong in every shape and form.
Shawn Ray, and Flex Wheeler is doing the same thing and they still have there jobs....Anyways Here is my point.
My athlete did a big spread in MD, and it was alot of pages.
Steve didnt pay the guy a dime!!!!
I was like WTF.
Steve has never had to struggle for money, not one second of his life.
He was given Twinlab.You got these poor athletes who dont make any money unless they get a contract.
Steve Charges something $10,000 per page per month to advertise in his magazine.Yet he puts these 5-10 page spreads on these athletes, and doesnt pay then a dime.Why not give the athlete atleast $500 or $1000 for his time.The athletes eats trains and works his ass off, and yu make money off of the athletes why not pay them?
Steve can I have free advertising in your magazine for free?
Hello no!!!! Bodybuilders, have alot of expenses, you got food, supplements,anabolics and everything else.
Bodybuilding is a very very expensive sport.Just eating costs $200 a week.
Steve Blechamn if you are going to charge supplement companies money to advertise in your magazine, then you should pay athletes for photo shoots.Steve $500 or even $1000 bucks is like $20 to you.
Your a friggin Multi-Millionaire, why not help a few guys out with some money.It is the right thing to do.You know it, I know, the athletes know it.

ohn.


 You know the truth just as much as I do. No matter what. Wether they are 15 or 50... a bodybuilder is a bodybuilder is a bodybuilder. They are liars, flakes, scumbags, lowlifes, mutts, mooches and poor buisnessmen. Steve Buttman knows the psyche of a bodybuilder so why should he throw money at some bodbulder when he knows that 99% of the time the bodybuilder will do it for FREE just for the sake of being in a magazine.

 I don't blame Steve Gluteman. I blame the bodybuilder who just wants to 'play politics' and try to 'look good and positive' for the false hopes that it may help his placing.


 Shawn Ray was never Mr. Olympia because when he was young he knew not to do NOTHING for free for anybody.



 - Block!

[BayGBM]

Listen I dont have Steve Blechman, but I didnt like what he did to Dave and John.Its was just wrong in every shape and form.
Shawn Ray, and Flex Wheeler is doing the same thing and they still have there jobs....Anyways Here is my point.
My athlete did a big spread in MD, and it was alot of pages.
Steve didnt pay the guy a dime!!!!
I was like WTF.
Steve has never had to struggle for money, not one second of his life.
He was given Twinlab.You got these poor athletes who dont make any money unless they get a contract.
Steve Charges something $10,000 per page per month to advertise in his magazine.Yet he puts these 5-10 page spreads on these athletes, and doesnt pay then a dime.Why not give the athlete atleast $500 or $1000 for his time.The athletes eats trains and works his ass off, and yu make money off of the athletes why not pay them?
Steve can I have free advertising in your magazine for free?
Hello no!!!! Bodybuilders, have alot of expenses, you got food, supplements,anabolics and everything else.
Bodybuilding is a very very expensive sport.Just eating costs $200 a week.
Steve Blechamn if you are going to charge supplement companies money to advertise in your magazine, then you should pay athletes for photo shoots.Steve $500 or even $1000 bucks is like $20 to you.
Your a friggin Multi-Millionaire, why not help a few guys out with some money.It is the right thing to do.You know it, I know, the athletes know it.

Why did your athlete agree to 'work'/appear in the magazine for free?

[OneMoreRep]

Sorry GetItOn, but Blechman is right..  

He knows that these guys will do anything for a little exposure.  Blechman understands that underneath the 180+ lbs. of artificial muscle these guys carry, there is a shy, insecure, little boy that has very little understanding of the world of business and due to the extremes that they've undergone (buying illegal substances, injecting all sorts of oils into often questionable body parts, G4P and even selling drugs to fund their own "career"), he knows that they will do just about anything to feel as if they've made it to the spotlight.  Truth be told, unless you're a top 10 Olympia contender, what difference does it make if you get paid nothing to do the 5-10 page spread in Muscular development?

Why pay these athletes anything when they don't deserve it?  

Blechman knows that unless these guys are top-tier Pros, there is no reason to pay them a dime.  Even then, he also understands that publicity, is still worth a lot to these guys.  The level of exposure that they will receive worldwide by appearing in muscular development alone is worth more than a measly $500-$1000.

Lets blame the bodybuilders for being such fucking idiots and incapable of having more of a business savvy approach to selling their synthetic bodies.


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[Victor VonDoom]

Good point.  Why did he do it?  'tis better to be cheap than stupid!  Bah!

Doom disapproves.

[Vince G, CSN MFT]

Listen I dont have Steve Blechman, but I didnt like what he did to Dave and John.Its was just wrong in every shape and form.
Shawn Ray, and Flex Wheeler is doing the same thing and they still have there jobs....Anyways Here is my point.
My athlete did a big spread in MD, and it was alot of pages.
Steve didnt pay the guy a dime!!!!
I was like WTF.
Steve has never had to struggle for money, not one second of his life.
He was given Twinlab.You got these poor athletes who dont make any money unless they get a contract.
Steve Charges something $10,000 per page per month to advertise in his magazine.Yet he puts these 5-10 page spreads on these athletes, and doesnt pay then a dime.Why not give the athlete atleast $500 or $1000 for his time.The athletes eats trains and works his ass off, and yu make money off of the athletes why not pay them?
Steve can I have free advertising in your magazine for free?
Hello no!!!! Bodybuilders, have alot of expenses, you got food, supplements,anabolics and everything else.
Bodybuilding is a very very expensive sport.Just eating costs $200 a week.
Steve Blechamn if you are going to charge supplement companies money to advertise in your magazine, then you should pay athletes for photo shoots.Steve $500 or even $1000 bucks is like $20 to you.
Your a friggin Multi-Millionaire, why not help a few guys out with some money.It is the right thing to do.You know it, I know, the athletes know it.

That exposure in a magazine is good enough.  That translates into dollars if its capitalized on by Robert correctly.  He could land a great sponsorship with the majory company with those pictures as his calling card.

[GetItOnNY]

Block,,,,,, I just want people to know this.I know how Steve is, if he see's my post it willl bother him and it might get him to cough up some money.
Our industry is small and Steve Blechman is very very self conscience, you can tell by the clothes he wears the weay he acts.He is very insecure about himself.
I wouldnt want to be known as cheap, would you.?
Hopefully this will help him be more generous to bodybuilders.

Bay, I dont know.If he wanted to do a shoot with me, I better have some cash or a check afterwards.If I drove or flew to some place.You know most of the guys buy nicers clothes for the photo shoot, and then you have gas money.So to do a photo shoot actually costs a athlete.
If I did a shoot, and I didnt get paid, I would be on the phone with my lawyer

[BayGBM]

Block,,,,,, I just want people to know this.I know how Steve is, if he see's my post it willl bother him and it might get him to cough up some money.
Our industry is small and Steve Blechman is very very self conscience, you can tell by the clothes he wears the weay he acts.He is very insecure about himself.
I wouldnt want to be known as cheap, would you.?
Hopefully this will help him be more generous to bodybuilders.

Bay, I dont know.If he wanted to do a shoot with me, I better have some cash or a check afterwards.If I drove or flew to some place.You know most of the guys buy nicers clothes for the photo shoot, and then you have gas money.So to do a photo shoot actually costs a athlete.
If I did a shoot, and I didnt get paid, I would be on the phone with my lawyer

You make it sound as if not getting paid after the fact came as a surprise.  If your friend wanted to get paid for the photo shoot why didn't he go into it with a contractual agreement to be paid?

[The Wizard of Truth]

Listen I dont have Steve Blechman, but I didnt like what he did to Dave and John.Its was just wrong in every shape and form.
Shawn Ray, and Flex Wheeler is doing the same thing and they still have there jobs....Anyways Here is my point.
My athlete did a big spread in MD, and it was alot of pages.
Steve didnt pay the guy a dime!!!!
I was like WTF.
Steve has never had to struggle for money, not one second of his life.
He was given Twinlab.You got these poor athletes who dont make any money unless they get a contract.
Steve Charges something $10,000 per page per month to advertise in his magazine.Yet he puts these 5-10 page spreads on these athletes, and doesnt pay then a dime.Why not give the athlete atleast $500 or $1000 for his time.The athletes eats trains and works his ass off, and yu make money off of the athletes why not pay them?
Steve can I have free advertising in your magazine for free?
Hello no!!!! Bodybuilders, have alot of expenses, you got food, supplements,anabolics and everything else.
Bodybuilding is a very very expensive sport.Just eating costs $200 a week.
Steve Blechamn if you are going to charge supplement companies money to advertise in your magazine, then you should pay athletes for photo shoots.Steve $500 or even $1000 bucks is like $20 to you.
Your a friggin Multi-Millionaire, why not help a few guys out with some money.It is the right thing to do.You know it, I know, the athletes know it.

Gayest sentence ever

[Van_Bilderass]

If I did a shoot, and I didnt get paid, I would be on the phone with my lawyer

Are you saying Blechman breached a contract? If he didn't, why would you be on the phone with a lawyer?

You're not too smart. 

[240 is Back]

I know a lot of personal trainers, models, and bodybuilders who would KILL to be able to showcase work in a major muscle magazine.

Paid or not, it's an hour or two of their time they freely choose to donate.  And it opens up a ton of doors.  The guy will be a household name to bodybuilding fans everywhere, even if he ends up not winning.

[BayGBM]

I know a lot of personal trainers, models, and bodybuilders who would KILL to be able to showcase work in a major muscle magazine.

Paid or not, it's an hour or two of their time they freely choose to donate.  And it opens up a ton of doors.  The guy will be a household name to bodybuilding fans everywhere, even if he ends up not winning.

You can't pay bills with that.  Do you know how many household names have come and gone in BB with no cash to show for it?

I'm not saying posing for free is a bad idea, but it's not necessarily a ticket to anything either.

[Van_Bilderass]

You can't pay bills with that.  Do you know how many household names have come and gone in BB with no cash to show for it?

I think GetItOnNY owes it to Robert to give him at least a 100K contract. Why should John just use him for promoting his Extreme supplements?

[OneMoreRep]

You can't pay bills with that.

Sure you can...  

The gay community will sponsor such a young man in a way that will allow him to survive.  Just because he might potentially fail within the world of professional bodybuilding, doesn't mean that he doesn't have a huge shot at the world of Gay 4 Pay or even within the realm of gay magazines (see: Rusty Jeffers).

Oh and (no homo), but the proof is in the pudding..



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[wavelength]

this whole industry is fucked up, whoever gets into it is crazy anyway

[dr.chimps]

I think GetItOnNY owes it to Robert to give him at least a 100K contract. Why should John just use him for promoting his Extreme supplements?

Agree. Those soiled manties ain't gonna get mailed on goodwill.   

[wavelength]

Agree. Those soiled manties ain't gonna get mailed on goodwill.   

sometimes I think it's all a bad dream and this can't really be happening

[Matt C]

Listen I dont have Steve Blechman, but I didnt like what he did to Dave and John.Its was just wrong in every shape and form.
Shawn Ray, and Flex Wheeler is doing the same thing and they still have there jobs....Anyways Here is my point.
My athlete did a big spread in MD, and it was alot of pages.
Steve didnt pay the guy a dime!!!!
I was like WTF.
Steve has never had to struggle for money, not one second of his life.
He was given Twinlab.You got these poor athletes who dont make any money unless they get a contract.
Steve Charges something $10,000 per page per month to advertise in his magazine.Yet he puts these 5-10 page spreads on these athletes, and doesnt pay then a dime.Why not give the athlete atleast $500 or $1000 for his time.The athletes eats trains and works his ass off, and yu make money off of the athletes why not pay them?
Steve can I have free advertising in your magazine for free?
Hello no!!!! Bodybuilders, have alot of expenses, you got food, supplements,anabolics and everything else.
Bodybuilding is a very very expensive sport.Just eating costs $200 a week.
Steve Blechamn if you are going to charge supplement companies money to advertise in your magazine, then you should pay athletes for photo shoots.Steve $500 or even $1000 bucks is like $20 to you.
Your a friggin Multi-Millionaire, why not help a few guys out with some money.It is the right thing to do.You know it, I know, the athletes know it.

No, Steve will pay his athletes bodybuilders as little as the market will bear, unfortunately that number is $0.

I recommend that you tell your athlete bodybuilder that if he doesn't like the terms to not do it.

[wavelength]

No, Steve will pay his athletes bodybuilders as little as the market will bear, unfortunately that number is $0.

I recommend that you tell your athlete bodybuilder that if he doesn't like the terms to not do it.

Exactly, stop the whining and don't do it!

[dr.chimps]

sometimes I think it's all a bad dream and this can't really be happening

Still waiting on your order? Maybe try on-line tracking.   

[Van_Bilderass]

No, Steve will pay his athletes bodybuilders as little as the market will bear, unfortunately that number is $0.

I recommend that you tell your athlete bodybuilder that if he doesn't like the terms to not do it.

Maybe GetItOnNY isn't a fan of the free market? More of a communist type?

[TRIX]

$10,000 a page? . Roughly 200 ads WHOLE PAGE ads not including the small ones, banners etc. So you're telling me steve makes $2 million per magazine from ads? 
 

[Special Ed]

Block,,,,,, I just want people to know this.I know how Steve is, if he see's my post it willl bother him and it might get him to cough up some money.
Our industry is small and Steve Blechman is very very self conscience, you can tell by the clothes he wears the weay he acts.He is very insecure about himself.
I wouldnt want to be known as cheap, would you.?
Hopefully this will help him be more generous to bodybuilders.

Bay, I dont know.If he wanted to do a shoot with me, I better have some cash or a check afterwards.If I drove or flew to some place.You know most of the guys buy nicers clothes for the photo shoot, and then you have gas money.So to do a photo shoot actually costs a athlete.
If I did a shoot, and I didnt get paid, I would be on the phone with my lawyer

Everyone in this game already knows how cheap Blechman is. They know how he stiffed Justin Harris and dozens of other writers and bodybuilders out of money they were promised or led to believe was forthcoming. When I did some work for MD, a certain someone VERY close to Steve told me:

"Whatever you do, you have to absolutely 100% get it in writing or Steve won't pay you. It's that simple."

So I faxed over a contract and sure enough, Steve balked and postponed signing it until the very, very last minute and eventually his wife signed it. I have no doubt, zero, that they fully intended to stiff me out of payment.

When Blechman later asked me to do other work, the only issue was payment and I never received a satisfactory response, as he would have Palumbo step in and call me 'lazy' or ask why I didn't want to work with him.

The number of bodybuilders screwed over by Blechman is no secret. Complaining about it is like a guy with 7 posts complaining to Ron that "this Squadfather guy is being mean to me."