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Not to rub salt into your wound, but $1250 for work which you personally acknowledge can take up to 3 months (it took you 3 months to dispute!) is hardly "gener

by alt_f4 14y ago

Not to rub salt into your wound, but $1250 for work which you personally acknowledge can take up to 3 months (it took you 3 months to dispute!) is hardly "generous". What US-based developer can afford to work on your project for this long on that pay? In short, if you don't want to get screwed, you should: first, start paying competitively. That will help you attract good candidates. Second, spend some time vetting them properly.

true_religion 14y ago
I don't think it was 3 months worth of work, just that it took them 3 months to dispute. I know personally, I had a bad experience with a contractor who delivered work after 8 months, when the timeline called for only 1 week of work.
- alt_f4 14y ago
  OK, so why the delay then? Did you also dispute after 8 months? I would understand if you are willing to cut your contractor maybe a week or two worth of slack. But in OP's case 1-2 weeks difference still doesn't make 1250$ reasonable payment for 2.5 months work. And if the work was estimated as substantially less, why did OP delay filling the dispute for so long and how is that the web site's fault?
  - true_religion 14y ago
    I didn't go through a service---I contracted them directly, so there was no real way to dispute except via small claims court. Because of that, I ended up contracting someone else for the work who finished it on time. The originally contractor dripped in the work over the course of 8 months with many weeks delay in communication between each dribble of work done. In the end, they completed the job but I had no use for the work at that point, and obviously won't be recommending them to anyone.
    - JimWillTri 14y ago
      I got pulled into a similar situation when I had a how it works video produced on Odesk. Learned real fast that you have to make them meet the milestones in a timely manner and not to pay anything up-front on a fixed price job.

by alt_f4 14y ago

true_religion 14y ago

I don't think it was 3 months worth of work, just that it took them 3 months to dispute. I know personally, I had a bad experience with a contractor who delivered work after 8 months, when the timeline called for only 1 week of work.

alt_f4 14y ago
OK, so why the delay then? Did you also dispute after 8 months? I would understand if you are willing to cut your contractor maybe a week or two worth of slack. But in OP's case 1-2 weeks difference still doesn't make 1250$ reasonable payment for 2.5 months work. And if the work was estimated as substantially less, why did OP delay filling the dispute for so long and how is that the web site's fault?
- true_religion 14y ago
  I didn't go through a service---I contracted them directly, so there was no real way to dispute except via small claims court. Because of that, I ended up contracting someone else for the work who finished it on time. The originally contractor dripped in the work over the course of 8 months with many weeks delay in communication between each dribble of work done. In the end, they completed the job but I had no use for the work at that point, and obviously won't be recommending them to anyone.
  - JimWillTri 14y ago
    I got pulled into a similar situation when I had a how it works video produced on Odesk. Learned real fast that you have to make them meet the milestones in a timely manner and not to pay anything up-front on a fixed price job.