Comments on: RentACoder Review: A serious site for serious freelancers http://pimteam.net/rentacoder-review-a-serious-site-for-serious-freelancers/ Bobby Handzhiev on Web, Technology And Small Business Tue, 03 Jan 2012 22:16:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.5 By: Nicole http://pimteam.net/rentacoder-review-a-serious-site-for-serious-freelancers/comment-page-1/#comment-9172 Nicole Sun, 23 Aug 2009 12:02:39 +0000 http://freelance-employment-help.com/blog/?p=19#comment-9172 Rentacoder buyers will benefit from learning *how* to outsource through the site before making mistakes via trial and error: http://www.lulu.com/content/paperback-book/outsourcing-through-rentacoder/7564711 Rentacoder buyers will benefit from learning *how* to outsource through the site before making mistakes via trial and error: http://www.lulu.com/content/paperback-book/outsourcing-through-rentacoder/7564711

]]> By: vikram http://pimteam.net/rentacoder-review-a-serious-site-for-serious-freelancers/comment-page-1/#comment-943 vikram Fri, 12 Sep 2008 16:22:08 +0000 http://freelance-employment-help.com/blog/?p=19#comment-943 From my personal experience RAC is a very risky place to work in. I bid an extremely low price for a big project hoping to get a good rating and more subsequent projects. However, the way that it turned out was that the buyer kept on expanding the scope of the project and it would never end. Frustrated I put the project into arbitration, but lost because of some feature that I tried to do but was not able to do completely. Overall, I lost about a months effort to nothing and most probably the buyer got a lot more than the initial project work for free. On RAC, you need to be very careful about clueless buyers who will make completing projects a pain. I would advise coders to stick with an hourly payment cycle on something like odesk.com and stay away from RAC. From my personal experience RAC is a very risky place to work in. I bid an extremely low price for a big project hoping to get a good rating and more subsequent projects. However, the way that it turned out was that the buyer kept on expanding the scope of the project and it would never end. Frustrated I put the project into arbitration, but lost because of some feature that I tried to do but was not able to do completely. Overall, I lost about a months effort to nothing and most probably the buyer got a lot more than the initial project work for free.

On RAC, you need to be very careful about clueless buyers who will make completing projects a pain.

I would advise coders to stick with an hourly payment cycle on something like odesk.com and stay away from RAC.

]]> By: Lance K http://pimteam.net/rentacoder-review-a-serious-site-for-serious-freelancers/comment-page-1/#comment-610 Lance K Mon, 11 Aug 2008 00:32:10 +0000 http://freelance-employment-help.com/blog/?p=19#comment-610 rentacoder and getacoder are the big programming sites. elance is the site for writers webdesigners and those doing video and audio work. This review was very positive however there is also a dark side that users should know about. Some coders are simply dishonest. They will claim to be experienced when they are not. The resulting code is filled with bugs and you may not know until you have paid them. There are ways to check into a coders background other than the resume page they post so I suggest you do that. There are also a bunch of ways you can identify bad coders. I found a list at http://rent-a-coder.y3s.net which also has a great manual explaining how to use rentacoder and similar sites. I would not recommend anyone use these sites without finding out how they really work first. rentacoder and getacoder are the big programming sites. elance is the site for writers webdesigners and those doing video and audio work.

This review was very positive however there is also a dark side that users should know about. Some coders are simply dishonest. They will claim to be experienced when they are not. The resulting code is filled with bugs and you may not know until you have paid them. There are ways to check into a coders background other than the resume page they post so I suggest you do that. There are also a bunch of ways you can identify bad coders. I found a list at http://rent-a-coder.y3s.net which also has a great manual explaining how to use rentacoder and similar sites. I would not recommend anyone use these sites without finding out how they really work first.

]]> By: Mark http://pimteam.net/rentacoder-review-a-serious-site-for-serious-freelancers/comment-page-1/#comment-438 Mark Sat, 31 May 2008 20:43:11 +0000 http://freelance-employment-help.com/blog/?p=19#comment-438 www.Icanfreelance.com rentacoder.com and getafreelancer.com are other sites to try. http://www.Icanfreelance.com rentacoder.com and getafreelancer.com are other sites to try.

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