child model agencys (merged)

Jamie1984_2

Hi everyone, I know people have posted about this before, but I just wanted to ask whether there was any chance of getting my money back and how I go about it. I hadn't heard of any bad publicity about the company when I signed my daughter up in November, and I hadn't seen the Watchdog program, but I began to search around in forums after I received a very tacky "model i.d. card" that my 8 year old brother could have made and then I didn't hear anything from them, and I found a lot of disgruntled parents who had made the mistake of signing up to them. I only found one person who claimed to have had work from them. I'm just really upset at falling for the whole spiel on the telephone.
Is there anything I can do, or do I need to just put it down to a very horrible experience and never be that stupid again?