Rent a coder, elance or others related sites experiences

Question

What was your experience as user of those sites? Did you win any bids?

I live in a third world country and have recently joined to RAC, and I'm not really sure what to expect.

_{Also, I'm not sure if this question belongs to here or to SuperUser.com}

Answer 1

I've used RaC before, and generally it was pretty good, but beware if you're looking through lower paying jobs: people will expect alot and pay very little. Or that's what I found anyway, when I couldn't work fulltime on things.

Answer 2

That's true. To me RaC is not feasible to spare your time and efforts. Because customers will probably wait to much but pay little that's why actually they choose RaC. If you want to play big, go get jobs from somewhere else.

Answer 3

Related post: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/128062/how-to-find-remote-off-site-work

Answer 4

I've tried it once. The problem was that everytime some indian company was putting a much smaller bid for a job. Unreasonably cheap, so I gave up.

Answer 5

I have pretty good experience with limeexchange.com.

Answer 6

Here are two comment threads on Rent A Coder experiences:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1195229

http://www.reddit.com/r/iama/comments/a2485