Comments on: Things I dislike about Elance

By: Elance Competitors

Elance Competitors — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 13:40:30 +0000

Try oDesk. They’ve got service providers who are into programming. Mostly they are from Russia. In fact, Russians are the best programmers I guess. From C programming to Php to any programming! And I guess why people from India cannot grasp good information because of the communication barrier. They barely understand and speak english. If I were to choose a programmer having the same programming skills from Philippines and India, I’d prefer from Philippines. They speak better english than Indians.

By: Kristi Carter

Kristi Carter — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 16:21:56 +0000

I agree that it can be extremely frustrating when you aren’t able to find providers that meet your specific needs. I too use Elance providers and what I’ve done in the past is to use their “invite only” function and then invite those providers that meet my precise specifications. When I do this, I already have a good idea of the provider that I want to choose and they take it as a “compliment” that I sought them out and typically submit proposals. Have you considered doing that?

By: Joe

Joe — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 21:40:00 +0000

I totally concur! I made a big mistake with one of my projects by hiring an India programming team to do it, ended up spending more time, money and headaches, all for nothing and had to abort it.

Turned it to an UK programming team, finished in half the time and cost less, all things (and headaches) considered. No more India programmers for me, ever.

By: Paul L.

Paul L. — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 05:28:34 +0000

I’ve had good success using ScriptLance. And it has quite a few of American programmers.

By: Dan

Dan — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 02:35:32 +0000

Look into odesk.com it still has a large international reach, however I tend to get a good number of US folks.