Since when does high end equal no pay?

New Magazine seeks Writers

Reply to: (withheld because I don’t need a lawsuit)
Date: 2007-10-05, 9:28PM EDT

New magazine seeks writers. We are a highend fashion publication who seeks writers who are on top of the latest trends.

You will receive credit and exposure of your work in the publication schedule to launch Spring 2008.

Please send over your resume with a sample piece on the latest fall trends for this season or a runway review on a designer from this falls season.

Thank you.
* Compensation: no pay

Apparently those in the high end world of fashion journalism haven’t yet realized one gets what one pays for. Indeed these are the types of ads that give me a bit of a giggle. Now that there’s a trend to report on luxury and highend goods, all of the wannabes are coming out of the woodwork. So I ask you, how are writers who aren’t getting paid, able to afford the luxuries they’re asked to report on?

They don’t ask for much do they? A report on the latest fall trends or perhaps a runway review plus regular writing at no charge. In this case high end = ass.