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No need to waste a week weeding through bids, when the whole job could be done by then. Outsourcing is supposed to save you time, bidding wastes your valuable

• jpdoctor 13y ago
  > bidding wastes your valuable time. Why does it waste more of my time in this bidding process than any other aspect of the marketplace? It's how you minimize costs, and any smart seller that realizes you're not going through the bidding process jacks up the price to milk you for all you're worth.
  • jtbigwoo 13y ago
    > It's how you minimize costs, and any smart seller that realizes you're not going through the bidding process jacks up the price to milk you for all you're worth. Honestly, I rarely get more than one or two bids when I'm looking for someone to work for me. I've been around long enough to have built relationships with vendors for various tasks. I know about how much I expect something to cost and if the bid comes in significantly higher or lower then the vendor and I talk it over and negotiate either a lower price or a changed scope. They don't jack up the price because the cost to acquire customers is very high. I'm guessing I saved 100 hours last year by not putting every last task out for bid.
  • tzaman 13y ago
    Bidding is the best way to get rid of the best contractors, because most of them won't want to invest significant time to compete with others for the jobs, so what you're left with are the most desperate or mediocre ones. And even those will realize in long-term that it's just not worth their time or either leave or perform poorly. So in my experience, bidding doesn't do any good, to either party.