Ill flag any job offer that is below a reasonable price. I think others should do the same. Whats reasonable? Well ask yourself this question.. "How long have you been working in your given field, is it long enough to know what is or is not a reasonable rate?"
I think everyone knows, what reasonable is. I will not be dictated to by a client on how to do a job that I specialize in. Nor will I be told how long the job should take. If they have all the knowledge about how it is done, then they don't need me, they can do it their damn self.
Finally, if I see the client (especially the non confirmed payment) types, trying to low ball freelancers, you are damn right, Ill flag them. It's unethical business practice, and Im going to call you out on it.
Clients want to pay **** for quality work. They just love to use the fancy words like, Professional, AAA+, Guru, Ninja, Expert and other such terms. If a clients material turns out looking like puke, then that's fantastic, they deserve the loss for undercutting quality for cheap labor. It's usually the ones trying to sound "Big business", like they have a team, or that they are not just complete buffoons at what they are trying to accomplish.. I love it, they really believe their own BS, it's precious.
So lets just do a quick role reversal here. I'm the person contracted to do the work, and I decide in my infinite wisdom, that its in my best interest to do a really, really crappy job, yet they are expected to pay in gold bars, and their children's college tuition. Who here thinks that BS will fly?
Odesk has ZERO interest in maintaining their platform. In fact it is working in full retrograde. Customer service is non existent, and I wonder who is actually at the helm of this cluster **** of a platform. Do a little googling and you will see just what kind of crappy reputation odesk has. I'm actually Embarrassed to claim I have worked from this site now.
There are a few good clients, and I make sure they get 5 star feedback and I let the freelancers know where to find them. But for the rest of the bottom feeding scum, idiotic sweat shop running clients, and moronic portfolio stealing waste of space freelancers I say this. *..REMOVED BY STAFF..
Oh and one last thing. I don't know what this new trend is with freelances posting in job feeds to try and get work, but Im flagging that crap also. I'm sick of seeing "I do good designings, work fast, you hire me." In my job feed constantly. Great job Odesk, the now derelict robot that runs the site has been completely ignoring those. But of course, running this place into the ground s the plan yes???
PS: There is a saying, "If the shoe fits wear it." If this offends someone who is innocent, then don't worry about it, I'm not talking about you. The guilty parties know who they are.
