>>This is good information. It has got me think in a different light. Before, I was searching my local area for clients by approaching them directly. But that was before the internet took off. Now I can see that there are sites out there that will do the searching for me. The RentACoder site looks vary interesting, and I plan to use it from now on.
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>Just checked out RentACoder...wish I had thought of that concept a few years ago.
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>I was surfing around their site and I can't believe what some clients believe is fair. The one Foxpro request that wants all that work done, but their maximum accepted bid is only $300. Even billing middle-of-the-road rates it would be more like $3,000 to do all that. They probably just don't realize what it takes.
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>BTW, got your information and will work on it some over the weekend...

I've won one Rent-a-coder job. When that happens, you get to see the losing bids. Most of those people don't know do a decent job of putting together a good proposal. There have been articles showing that the off-shore thing takes more project management than one might expect.