People should be paid for the value of their work; no-one should be paid $5 / hour for anything.<div><br></div><div>No-one should be paid at below the poverty level for building Drupal sites or any other kind of sites. <br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 5:26 PM, fgm <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:fgm@osinet.fr">fgm@osinet.fr</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
I beg to differ, Victor: 40 times the $5/hour someone quoted for Vietnam is $200, or 150EUR/hour is actually a fairly reasonable rate in the EU for a specialist.<br>
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Date d'envoi : mardi 22 mars 2011 21:24<br>
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Objet : Re: [consulting] Lowball offers<br>
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Oh, I see, so it's OK for outside the US, but developers world-wide are supposed to earn an insignificant sum?<br>
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Your statement is ridiculous. I am not going to qualify it as it deserves to be qualified.<br>
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There are differences in what is charged in different countries, but not of the order you are implying (neither 40 times, nor $1000)<br>
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Victor Kane<br>
<a href="http://awebfactory.com.ar" target="_blank">http://awebfactory.com.ar</a><br>
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</div><div class="im">On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 5:18 PM, jcisio <<a href="mailto:jcisio@gmail.com">jcisio@gmail.com</a><mailto:<a href="mailto:jcisio@gmail.com">jcisio@gmail.com</a>>> wrote:<br>
On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 8:32 PM, Tom Geller <<a href="mailto:tom@tomgeller.com">tom@tomgeller.com</a><mailto:<a href="mailto:tom@tomgeller.com">tom@tomgeller.com</a>>> wrote:<br>
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> Is it really a problem? If these lowballers do a bad job, you'll get the work eventually<br>
> -- with a better-educated client. If they do a good job, that means the market has<br>
> shifted, and the rest of us are charging too much.<br>
><br>
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That's the reason of outsourcing to offshore. The GDP of the US is 40<br>
times higher than one of a developing country (and a Macbook Pro in<br>
the US is cheaper...).<br>
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There's simply nothing wrong with that offer. However, posting that in<br>
the consulting list, where 90% are in the US, causes problem because<br>
there is already a presumption.<br>
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--<br>
Hai-Nam Nguyen (aka jcisio)<br>
<a href="http://jcisio.com" target="_blank">http://jcisio.com</a><br>
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