Page 2 - GetACoder???

GetACoder is an outright scam.

After designing a site for way below minimum wage, I found out that I had to wait 20 days for getacoder to release the funds. To speed this up I purchased they're premium membership (this apparently allows you to get your money in 5 days).

Three weeks later and I still haven't been paid. This site is a scam. I suspect the owner of this site just lives off the escrow payments.
I wouldn't recommend anyone code on that site or at the very least avoid the escrow system.

They are under investigation for fraud now out of Wilmington, DE.

Hi, is GAC good enough?

I hope my freelancer site can be better then theirs

If your freelancer job board provides project management tools so that clients can easily manage remote resources, then it'll be better. Otherwise, it's just a job board and running with a large pack, so no reason to think it'll be better.

And job boards are a waste of time for any freelancer in a mature economy. And it's likely also a complete waste for most potential clients, since they have absolutely no clue how to manage a remote project across timezones and language barriers.

In this case "a mature economy" means "expensive for nothing areas".

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New freelancer site, doesn't have long escrow withdraw rates and doesn't charge high fee's.

My account at getacoder.com has just been suspended. Apparently for posting my e-mail in a message to a contractor. Yet they scan the messages and block them if an e-mail is entered. Their rules on the matter are quite vague. It states in the rules that one is allowed to post an e-mail after the bidding process is over for a project, that is it's been awarded (so why did they suspend my account? I don't know).

I've had two projects done there and the first one was some flash adds. Overall well done by an Italian programmer but he vanished before finishing and now I suspect what happened to him. He still had $40 sitting in escrow for him. Then I had an Indian programmer do some Joomla work for $650. I think he got his money but after the suspension I'm real suspicious about GAC. They have still to explain the suspension and they only offer one way of sending in communications, that is the form on the website. I doubt that I will submit more projects there, given this experience and the confusing user interface on the site.

all of those sites are crap. you either get ripped off there, or you wind up working for $4 an hour.

Use craigslist to hire some teenager in your area. At least you know where to find them ;-)

If you're serious about freelancing, don't waste your time with GAC. I can't speak to the other freelance sites because I wrote all of them off after my brief GAC encounter. It must be run in someone's basement who has 24/7 voice mail, and never returns calls. No contact information at all is permitted when projects are bid. Oh really? And the project host does due diligence and checks references how? And the bidder checks that the project host is legitimate, how? If you want to build an entire ebay cloned web site for $300, you will find all the work you want at GAC. It's a playpen for children or those who don't mind working for slave wages on poorly defined projects (i.e. requirements creep).

I was looking through this thread, because my work might need some ASP coding, and it is interesting.

Looks a little lopsided - buyers get a great deal, coders kinda get the low-end.

Maybe it is better to just try Craigslist if you want something cheep - my work is cheep (if they weren't then I would get more).

Still, I like that the coder sites list the persons projects and ratings, not something craigslist does...