Comments on: Del Boy versus Turing http://jamesmckay.net/2008/11/del-boy-versus-turing/ because there are few things that are less logical than business logic Mon, 19 Dec 2011 16:13:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Peter http://jamesmckay.net/2008/11/del-boy-versus-turing/comment-page-1/#comment-3599 Peter Wed, 26 Nov 2008 08:21:11 +0000 http://jamesmckay.net/?p=489#comment-3599 I have experimented a bit with freelancing sites (like getacoder and elance) and must say it's usually not worth the effort. The competition is cutthroat on those sites. If you place an honest bid, you're almost always underbid. And even if you can get a contract, the request is so vague you need to negotiate for a week to make things clear and end up spending way more time then estimated. You'd think that this could be solved by better managing the customer's expectation. But if you got competition that makes promises like the one in you post, that's really really hard. (anyway, just like you, I wouldn't have bid on the project example above :) ) I have experimented a bit with freelancing sites (like getacoder and elance) and must say it’s usually not worth the effort. The competition is cutthroat on those sites. If you place an honest bid, you’re almost always underbid. And even if you can get a contract, the request is so vague you need to negotiate for a week to make things clear and end up spending way more time then estimated.

You’d think that this could be solved by better managing the customer’s expectation. But if you got competition that makes promises like the one in you post, that’s really really hard. (anyway, just like you, I wouldn’t have bid on the project example above ) )

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