RE: Am I Off the Wall?????

Subject: RE: Am I Off the Wall?????
From: "Connie Giordano" <connie -at- therightwordz -dot- com>
To: "'Pro TechWriter'" <pro -dot- techwriter -at- gmail -dot- com>, "'Deborah Hemstreet'" <dvora -at- tech-challenged -dot- com>
Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2009 12:12:57 -0400

I find this fascinating, because I have had exactly the opposite
experience... oDesk has many jobs for $10 logos and $1 articles, and I have
yet to get a project through oDesk because my rates are "too high"-but I
won't take a user manual project for $11 an hour, and that's a problem I've
only had once or twice on Guru.

Connie

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I have found that oDesk has some reasonable clients who will pay a decent
amount of money for work. I don't work with guru.com any longer--I let that
membership lapse after the first six months. People were charging $10 for a
logo. Ridiculous.
PT

On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 6:47 AM, Deborah Hemstreet <
dvora -at- tech-challenged -dot- com> wrote:

> Hi Dave, and everyone.
>
> Dave to answer your question - yes this is for real.
>
> And although I did not say it, this was from Guru.com - where they make
you
> PAY to join...
>
> All I can say, is I 'm thankful I found some legitimate bids on ODesk.com
-
> and no paid membershp.... there I know I'm bidding against the world, but
> amazingly, a sound company in Minnesota found me and I have a decent
> contract with them now....
>
> I just had to do a reality check with you guys. Living in the middle of
> farm
> country, a farmer friend said they thought I needed to swallow my pride. A
> job is a job. If they were offering $5/hour to take it.
>
> My issue? All $5 an hour will do is maybe get a few gallons of gasolene,
> not
> pay the mortgage, electric, and etc.... so what's the diff betwen 0 and
> $5/hour? My sanity <grin>
>
> Thanks all
>
> Have a great weekend!
>
> Deborah
>
>
> On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 10:53 PM, davec <davec2468 -at- aim -dot- com> wrote:
>
> > Deborah,
> > Are you certain that the "other bidders" are indeed legitimate? Do
> > you know this client well enough to know that those competitive rates
> > are real bids?
> >
> > The story is so bizarre, I have to ask...
> >
> > Dave
> >
> > (I like Chris' suggestion of a premium if you end up fixing someone
> > else's work...)
> >
> > -=-=-=-
> >
> > >Hi All,
> > >
> > >All joking aside, I bid on a project (details listed below). Based on
> > >the fact that I would be responsible for research as well as writing, I
> > >told the bidder I could do this in probably 4 hours per page of work,
> > >possibly less. I gave a top bid based on 280 hours of work. It seems
> > >they want 70 pages of writing done, and do not want to pay more than
> > >$250. Even if, by some miracle I could get 70 pages written in 100
> > >hours, I don't think I could do the project for $250.
> > >
> > >Now here is the killer, I cannot figure this out: He wrote back and
> > >asked why my bid was so high? Of 5 people bidding for the project, 4
> > >gave a bid for less than $250.
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References:
Am I Off the Wall?????: From: Deborah Hemstreet
Re: Am I Off the Wall?????: From: Deborah Hemstreet
Re: Am I Off the Wall?????: From: Pro TechWriter

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