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RentACoder Losing Street Cred?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the lowest-bidder dept.

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?

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  1. I make mad money with RAC, and my skillz be 1337! by Cr0w+T.+Trollbot · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Check out this 1337 coding, dawg:

    10 PRINT 'HELLO WORLD'
    20

    Awww, CRAP! Gimme a minute, it will come back to me...

    Crow T. Trollbot

  2. WTF? by Deflatamouse! · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    WTF? So two guys, one hates RAC (kamen...@gmail.com), the other (TakeReal) obviously works for RAC (or owns RAC) --- therefore responds 60 something times to kamen's comments, dukes it out in a forum, and Slashdot concludes that RAC is losing street cred??

    Did kamen...@gmail.com submit this story to slashdot?

  3. Don't Feed the Trolls by drinkypoo · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    come on, someone who doesn't know what "street cred" means? ask them if they know what a moisture barrier is for, they apparently live in a basement and they should know the answer to that one.

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  4. Re:Obligatory... by MightyYar · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Re your sig: We should invade the USA, kill Ann Coulter and convert them all to atheism.

    I'd just like to point out that the reason that all of the religious nuts are in America is that this is where put them after you kicked them out of your country :) A friend of my wife's from Switzerland saw our Amish folks, who are quite the tourist draw here. She said, "Oh my God! It's those crazy cult people that we kicked out of our country! We learned about them in school!" I thought that was pretty hysterical, since they are thought of as "persecuted" here, but apparently not in Switzerland...

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