Project Scammers
Posted: Sat Apr 26, 2008 1:26 pm
Developers -- perhaps I'm going out on a limb, but I'm beginning to suspect that there are project scammers out there who hit the freelance sites, or contact other developers, and they request help on bogus, difficult projects, and ask very low prices. Not to say that these scams all come from one or two well-known country locations with lots of technicians and very low currency costs, but I strongly suspect them. And why do this? They do it, I suspect, to discourage those of us who have realistic timelines and realistic per hour prices. They hate guys like us and want to see us think that the only work out there is to do everything for no more than 40 hours, no matter how hard the project, and charge no more than a paltry $25 per hour.
I mean, if one more person sends me a chat window requesting me to build them a video streaming and ecommerce site for $500, claiming this is a piece of cake, I'm going to go C4 ballistic. Do you know what I'm feeling? Been here before?
I mean, if one more person sends me a chat window requesting me to build them a video streaming and ecommerce site for $500, claiming this is a piece of cake, I'm going to go C4 ballistic. Do you know what I'm feeling? Been here before?