Hello
I have funny negative experience with rentacoder. The mental abilities of the artitrators on the site do not allow to make more than patches
more details here

Guys, beware: insulter kamen123 spoil perfect site in revenge.

You can read more about “kamen123” here: http://rentacoder.com/RentACoder/SoftwareBuyers/ShowBuyerInfo.asp?lngAuthorId=1606810 Quote: “(Arbitration/mediation result): RentACoder discovered evidence that suggested that Paris2 (the buyer)was not entirely truthful during the arbitration process. They were given an opportunity to disprove it, but instead refused to answer after being asked 3 times. Their account was closed for not following arbitrator instructions…per their contract.

Kamen123 simply had to agree to cooperate profesionally during the testing process to be paid. He insulted other parties numerous times and was warned to simply stop it or he would forfeit. In the same statement in which he agreed to stop, he gave 2 additional insults. His account was also closed for not following arbitrrator insturctions…per his contract.

All funds were returned to Paris2.”

Hi Sergey

You know that rentacoder is useless for more than patches

rentacoder failure to make serious software is visible to everyone

You confirmed too

:-)

Another rent-a-coder team…

[...] The People The “people” behind this cloak and dagger pissing contest are Kamen123 and TakeReal, both are current or past RAC users. From my own logs, both of these individuals are located in different parts of Bulgaria. Oddly, the debate on RAC between Kamen123 and TakeReal has happened on other sites including Google Groups, DIGG and few other websites. [Note: each one of those words is an article with Kamen123 posting and half have TakeReal on them as well.] This flowing Internet pissing contest is a little interesting to watch and I think its funny that it spilled over on my website. (All puns intended.) [...]

With serious projects rentacoder staff is INCREDIBLY STUPID and they are proficient to blame someone else.
Perfect examples in the articles at http://kamen123.blogspot.com.
They lie even with the slogan of the site
Please help me to give them a lesson.

The insulter “kamen123” has been banned from RentACoder.
This week he is celebrating 1st anniversary of this ban
http://www.rentacoder.com/RentACoder/misc/ArbitrationInfo/KamenKaburov/RentACoderArbitration/KamenKaburov_RentACoder_Arbitration.htm

“kamen123” spoil perfect site in revenge.

My name: Sergey I.Grachyov
Nickname: TakeReal
I am famous freelancer.
I have:

895 projects completed via RentACoder
110 projects completed via GetAFreelancer
34 projects completed via Scriptlance
http://www.takereal.com/AboutTakeReal/Default.aspx

LOL “famous freelancer”. Get real dude, or is your fragile ego to sensitive to say just “freelancer”.

My own honest experience (have about 30 projects completed by freelancers behind me) on RAC is that there are a small number of very good providers there who do extraordinary work. The problem is they are VERY few. I have posted anything from full blown desktop apps development to small bug fixes and only the bug fixes get 10-15 bidders and successfull solution, the bigger projects either get 1-2 MAX bidders (without any money amount restrictions - I am willing to always pay whatever it takes)
and the projects in 99% of the cases does not get finished because the coder was lazy, incompetent or both.

Most coders there have low amount of knowledge and wish to do only quick projects for $5-$20. They probably figure that by doing 5 of these a day they can earn enough to get by.

From my personal experience RAC is a very risky place to work in. I bid an extremely low price for a big project hoping to get a good rating and more subsequent projects. However, the way that it turned out was that the buyer kept on expanding the scope of the project and it would never end. Frustrated I put the project into arbitration, but lost because of some feature that I tried to do but was not able to do completely. Overall, I lost about a months effort to nothing and most probably the buyer got a lot more than the initial project work for free.

On RAC, you need to be very careful about clueless buyers who will make completing projects a pain.

I would advise coders to stick with an hourly payment cycle on something like odesk.com and stay away from RAC.