Programers Begs for the Job - Then Reject It

[not2serious]

I am new to SL and decided to test the system with a project that I want completed. After two time extensions, extra effort to educate the prospective bidders and a detailed job specification, I believed that I had found a few qualified candidates.

Several bidders asked for the job numerous times, stating they were very interested in completing it. I selected one, and after several days, the job was declined. I selected a second bidder, and the job was declined. I feel like I have wasted my time and still have no qualified bidder to complete the project.

Is this the normal way this work? Everyone says they are qualified and then leaves the job die on the vine? How do I find the programmers that do not play games and want to work?

[maborakprogrammer]

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Post your project url. maybe your project is very cheap or spammed by indian programmers. lol.


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[not2serious]

Originally Posted by maborakprogrammer

Post your project url. maybe your project is very cheap or spammed by indian programmers. lol.

The job is basically a single, and fairly simple, Flash game. Look at the entire posting, not just the summary: Project Posting.

I am thinking some of the bidders may be putting in a low ball bid to secure the job and then renegotiate the price higher. I was only discussing with programmers that had positive ratings and appeared to actually review the project and sent me samples that had something to do with my site.

[jtraher]

That seems kind of odd. The only thing I could see "wrong" is maybe the subject matter? But if the are sending you examples then they should already know (and its not "wrong"...its just the only thing I could think of).

I know it is frustrating but you are probably better off not working with a programmer who won't accept your bid within a few hours. They obviously don't care about your project enough to accept it in a timely manner.

[kabirchy]

There is some other reasons. Lets say someone bid on 5 projects. Lets say he won 2 projects in few hours, Then obviously he will reject one. I have same problem some time. Regards

[probidboy]

Yes, had a programmer take on a job: sorl lucene install plus, and he informed me all was going swimmingly well.He then told me everything would be ready to upload on the 19th June, this is some 6 weeks after he started the project.That was the last I heard from him, despite numerous e-mails.Then had another programmer take on the same project, who even now is accepting jobs exactly the same as my posted project.Sent him my FTP details, then never heard from him until he said he didn't have the time for the project, that was after another wasted week of no contact
Coming to the conclusion that using scriptlance can be a waste of time.

Even now I had accepted yet another bid on the same project, only for the programmer to "no reply" again if they cannot do the work then why do these people even register as programmers in the first place!

[hindiphaj]

Originally Posted by not2serious

I am new to SL and decided to test the system with a project that I want completed. After two time extensions, extra effort to educate the prospective bidders and a detailed job specification, I believed that I had found a few qualified candidates.

Several bidders asked for the job numerous times, stating they were very interested in completing it. I selected one, and after several days, the job was declined. I selected a second bidder, and the job was declined. I feel like I have wasted my time and still have no qualified bidder to complete the project.

Is this the normal way this work? Everyone says they are qualified and then leaves the job die on the vine? How do I find the programmers that do not play games and want to work?

Ask programmers to add an few words like "am not a bot" in the bid text. This way your will protect yourself against bot systems, am sure many programmers use here.

I noticed that (somebody) post the first pmb message in interested also to me projects in less than 1 minute from posting of. And this happen more that few times.

[inet]

Before awarding a project, its best to engage the programmer on project discussion inside PMB. While it does not guarantee a quality service delivery, you can avoid situations where you award the project to a programmer and they decline.

Personally I would never accept a project until I speak to the buyer in PMB and we both are absolutely clear about the deliverables and timeline.