[consulting] RE : Lowball offers

[Victor Kane]

People should be paid for the value of their work; no-one should be paid $5
/ hour for anything.

No-one should be paid at below the poverty level for building Drupal sites
or any other kind of sites.

On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 5:26 PM, fgm <fgm at osinet.fr> wrote:

> 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.
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> Date d'envoi : mardi 22 mars 2011 21:24
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> Objet : Re: [consulting] Lowball offers
>
> Oh, I see, so it's OK for outside the US, but developers world-wide are
> supposed to earn an insignificant sum?
>
> Your statement is ridiculous. I am not going to qualify it as it deserves
> to be qualified.
>
> There are differences in what is charged in different countries, but not of
> the order you are implying (neither 40 times, nor $1000)
>
> Victor Kane
> http://awebfactory.com.ar
>
> On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 5:18 PM, jcisio <jcisio at gmail.com<mailto:
> jcisio at gmail.com>> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 8:32 PM, Tom Geller <tom at tomgeller.com<mailto:
> 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.
>
> --
> Hai-Nam Nguyen (aka jcisio)
> http://jcisio.com
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