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RentACoder Losing Street Cred?
Itninja writes, "Having used RAC several times in the past (as a buyer), I was shocked by a recent experience. I did a bit of looking around to see if I was the only one having problems with Rent-A-Coder. Apparently, I'm not." From the article: "This unfairness of RAC fees motivates the majority of coders to negotiate payment outside the scope of RAC which amounts to you and coder getting a better deal. For example, I have several coders that I fully trust willing to work on projects on a monthly basis because it is easier for him to deal with established clients than to have to bid for projects all the time. It saves me time and trouble because I can work with a person that I trust and he knows what is expected." A comment to this posting links a discussion of RAC at Google Groups, and there the service has its defenders. What has your experience of RAC been, either as a buyer or as a coder?
"How can you expect to win an arbitration if the arbitrator is not capable to understand more then 2-3 sentences plain English?"
Heh heh heh.
Is after several years of payments you actually own the coder outright. You will have to feed them and find a place for them to sleep in the basement. And when you add everything up, you will find that you overpaid massively.
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Glad I could help. That'll be 50% if your revenue please.
Things you think are in the Constitution, but are not.
I don't understand plain English either, if that's what you're calling English.
the rentacoder team took to do class in English grading according their total class spent time!!!!11!
Well, I already knew it wasn't kamen who submitted the story. Your summary was far too readable to be him/her.
We prefer the term 'The Service Formerly Known as Usenet.'
Crumb's Corollary: Never bring a knife to a bun fight.
You didn't through all the requirements then!
...and by "e-mail" they really meant a telegram.
They told *me* I had to mail the card to them so they could run it through their old school credit card swipe. then they'd mail it back. Also, I had to fly out to meet them so they could verify my identity.
Then, when my flight gets back home, I would receive a fexex package containing my credit card and...since this is an online transaction! they'll send me an email when everythign is all good.
I'd gladly do a text editor (coded in VB) for $50 - I'd regard that as good money for 1/2 hours work.
Thank you AC, for illustrating my point.