A major contributing factor to these low-ball estimates is a lot of the time, people completely unfamiliar with how IT should be conducted, much less how much it should cost are the ones who are posting the jobs. Anyone in their right mind who has worked in this industry should know that they will never be able to get a $2,500 computer ready to plug-n-play for $1,000. For that to be possible, they would either need to lower their expectations on components (specs) or lower their labor rate, or both.
On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 10:27 AM, Jacob <ja...@excaliburfilms.com> wrote: > Same here... > > One company wanted me to purchase, setup and install a web server. When I > got the requirements, I gave them a price which was fair. Just the hardware > alone (what the wanted) was $1500. With the O/S and a couple other apps and > my time.. I gave them a quote for $2450. When it was all said and done, I > would have made $250 (my labor). > > They wanted to pay me... $1000. Not even enough to cover the parts. > > I told them where they could stick it. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Ennio Bozzetti [mailto:enniobozze...@gmail.com] > Sent: Monday, December 22, 2008 4:40 PM > To: cf-jobs-talk > Subject: Re: On line project site > > Never... I did try once and they wanted to pay me around $200 for a project > over $1000 > > On Dec 22, 2008 7:11 PM, "Jenny" <jenn...@jennysplace.org> wrote: > > Has anyone had success, or otherwise, with sites such as Guru, Elance or > oDesk? > > Jenny > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-jobs-talk/message.cfm/messageid:4164 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-jobs-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.11
