eLance or Guru?

[Tedel]

Hi there,

Well, as a Latin American, some services are new for me. Taking into account I write, translate and design, I want to get some extra money anyway.

I stumbled across these two sites: eLance.com and Guru.com. Has anyone got any experience with them? Are they worth it or not?

Thanks for your feedback.

 

[RoyalRadande]

I personally use elance to get projects completed. I've never hired anyone from guru. You should definitely try out elance. Many more people use elance.

 

[-Matt-]

+1 elance

 

[stefanie]

I've used Elance as both a buyer and a provider at various points in time, and I couldn't be happier with it. Something about the Guru.com interface never felt quite right to me, but mostly, I just like that Elance has more people (both buyers and providers).

As with anything, just be careful of people with no feedback.

 

[Tedel]

Thanks everyone for your feedback. Now I'm Heptagrama on eLance.
I'll pass the test this evening.

 

[Chris R Motive]

I have always used eLance and never had a problem.

 

[PRandContent]

I'm a member of eLance as well. I tried to register with Guru before but I had this impression that not many people post projects over there. Good luck on your quest, Tedel!

 

[Lavish]

I've had mostly good experiences with Elance. Make sure who your working with is reputable. I back Elance.

 

[Tedel]

Thanks amigos.

 

[amateursurgeon]

I've bought brochure-writing off elance before and been very happy with it

 

[alexpooley]

I've provided programming services on Elance, and bought design services.

In both cases I've found it is definitely a buyers market, with heaps of bidders at stupid low prices.

I've managed to bag a bit of work at an OK rate, but even when you do, Elance's commission (about 10% IIRC) bites you in the ass. Not to mention that if you are serious about getting work, you'll need to buy bid credits and then spend time writing quality bids.

As a Latin American native I guess the rates may work in your favour. Personally, I've had better success throwing up a few local ads and selling my development services that way.

You may also like to try oDesk. I have Chinese bidding on a project of mine averaging about $15 an hour. I'm pretty sure that's way above the rate they could get in China, like, $13 to $14 above what they get in China? I won't be hiring them, but maybe they've had success before at those rates.