[consulting] Lowball offers

jcisio jcisio at gmail.com
Tue Mar 22 20:18:10 UTC 2011


On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 8:32 PM, Tom Geller <tom at tomgeller.com> wrote:
>
> Is it really a problem? If these lowballers do a bad job, you'll get the work eventually
> -- with a better-educated client. If they do a good job, that means the market has
> shifted, and the rest of us are charging too much.
>

That's the reason of outsourcing to offshore. The GDP of the US is 40
times higher than one of a developing country (and a Macbook Pro in
the US is cheaper...).

There's simply nothing wrong with that offer. However, posting that in
the consulting list, where 90% are in the US, causes problem because
there is already a presumption.

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Hai-Nam Nguyen (aka jcisio)
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