I used to be an events manager for them in southern california. his strategy would be to hire people off craig's list, tell them they would get their first check in about three weeks, in that time they would work multiple events unpaid, and when it was time for them to get paid, it would take a few more weeks and lots of phone calls to get them paid. finally the vendors would stop working and he would hire more and do the same thing, occasionally his checks would bounce and it took threats of law suits to get them taken care of. they also never looked ahead of time to get the necessary inventory ready for the shows and the blame would fall on me from the venue manager. i finally left after a few months because i got really frustrated with having to tell the vendors to call mark and jonathan about them not getting their paychecks. about six months later i got a call from a long time vendor saying that all of them havent been paid in over three months, and jonathan kept telling them that the pay checks were coming. i am sorry ahead of time for anyone that does business with them because i see that it is a trend and pretty much a scam