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$7 for the project that will take them 10 days to finish
$.10 cents an hour?
Sammi, nothin against your site at all, I like your site but in general freelance sites <span style='color:blue' title='I'm naughty, are you naughty?'>smurf</span> me off with how little programmers are willing to whore themselves out for. It would be more beneficial to your clients if you pre-screen programmers.
This guy is going to build a clone of yahoo.com for $20 an hour in just one day! a SUPER programmer
TWENTY DOLLARS!
This guy is going to bid $5 for 10 hours of work
yes, .50 cents an hour. child labor gets more. oh but it will take him 365 days to do 10 hours of work
I lost a contract because the guy I sent my info to wanted me to go through scriptlance and at a lower rate. Then after the two developers he hired through there flaked on him he called me in a panic (and a deadline) and told me to write the contract I want and name my rate.
Never, ever, ever go through a site like that! Just pick up the pieces of debris left behind...
It's not really my site, bash it at will. I'm a freelancer who offers services there. And I'm a big promoter of it because it helps out the freelancing community and potentially brings me more clients.
I agree with you though, some people jack the bids so damn low it's hard to win thus hard to expand your portfolio there unless you bid below $10 per project. Make sure to provide a good portfolio site so people know you're genuine talent instead of a newbie looking for work. Besides that, it's a good place to get additional clients but impossible to be your only source of work unless you enjoy working for pennies an hour.
I also advise you guys who use it to send a private msg to the people who bid $5 and in that lower than $10 range on projects worth so much more to sotp being foolish and tell them about scriptlances 5% or $5 per winning bid commision, you can do this on the PMB. It's worked for me a few times. As you might have guess scriptlance doesn't exactally advertise every where it takes a nifty commision on thoses small projects but they do and the I want some help getting the word out.
I have not found a single job on there so far. But i'm still interested in that site because I have $8 worth of referal money laying around in my account and I want to boost that to $30 so I can get a check. If it wasn't for that fact I wouldn't even visit that place, well maybe to pick up the trash others leave behind as someone stated above, heh. My advice is do the same.
Their commision system is pathetic but nobody can do a thing about it. If you win a bid for $10, you only see $5 of it. If you win a bid for $5, which is the min and what most idiots add in as their bid, you won't see a cent for your efforts.
Sami: just count the $8 as a loss! To me, it just doesn't seem worth the time and effort spent actually looking at a site like that. Just think about how much frustration the site has caused and than multiply that by three and three fourths for an estimate of how you'll feel by the time you can request the check (if they actually send it to you).
Well you might not have relized that there is a few thousand webmasters on there and the site gives you direct access to their Inbox. =) It's a good wat to advertise your services to webmasters who are/where looking for services of a PHP programmer/web designer.
I'm not saying spam is good, but this particular method of 'advertising' does have it's many advanatages for the starving freelancer community.
I'm able to sell a website simular as my own.
Most of the sites i made where gifts to friends or just created for personal enjoyment,
so i wouldnt really know how much i should ask/ demand if i would be asked to do one proffesionaly. ..so how much?
I don't want to go to low...cause that wouldnt pay the bills...then again, i won't want to ask an excessive amount that will scare the customer away...
that way I can know exactly how much a task takes. Then when another clients wants it I then begin to get an understanding of how many hours a job will take and what my time is worth per hour.
elance.com has come out w/ a solution to the problem....paid membership. it weeds out the script kiddies, but there are still a ton of Indian firms who will bid ridiculously low on certain projects (in the top-tier you have the option of only allowing paying members to see your projects).
i've implemented that paid membership at our company and it's looking like it will be a winner.