On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 9:37 PM, Timothy J Massey <[email protected]> wrote: >
> >From my personal experience, projects like this with a maximum bid very > close to the minimum number on the range tend to attract people who are > more interested in getting the bid and then adding extra cost after they > are in the project, rather than somebody who is giving a reasonable number > with a reasonable expectation of completing the project. > Actually, I don't think its intentional....its rather negative to think that they do this deliberately. Many of these people are newbies. Many take up projects outside their main domain knowledge, hoping to learn a new domain, while they work. Many times they find that they have underestimated the project and the outsourcing fails. In some cases a new fee is reached, in some cases the outsourcer or the worker cancels the project and the outsourcer has to find someone new. Mostly this happens in the discussion stage, as an effective requirements document is not in place. Overall, these sites are filling a niche. I find they are narrowing the difference further. The cost for a given project has almost doubled in the last two years on this particular site, which I believe is an indication that such site are narrowing the difference. Although these do put a downwards pressure on prices in high wage countries and an upwards pressure in low wage countries. Whether its right or not, is of course an individual opinion. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
