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Re:The subtleties in outsourcing using RentACoder by maxklein on Saturday March 13, 2010 @04:54PM (#1189709)
That's what I mean - anyone with any sort of skills in multiple languages very quickly 'graduates' from rentacoder, or picks only very well paying projects, because they can, or focuses on just a few clients that they have prior relationships with.

So a buyer coming in with a new request won't have this person available to him, and should he find a person, he will also try to monopolise the persons time, taking him out of the market.

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Re:The subtleties in outsourcing using RentACoder by scorpioxy on Sunday March 14, 2010 @01:59AM (#1190393)
True, but what you said also applies to freelancers not working through RAC or similar websites.

After a year or two of freelancing and if you're good, you'd pretty much get to choose the projects you work on. I usually go with the projects that are interesting to me(research projects from my local university) or that come from good clients or friends.

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