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Have you found any success with Elance?

Your Writing Dept has made several attempts to use Elance to gain new writing projects, but after submitting proposals only to be hit up by buyers to see if we would be interested in drastically reducing our bid amount, or just simply being passed over for a lower bid, we decided this just wasn’t our market. Too much time was being spent combing through poorly written and vague RFPs that it just wasn’t worth the effort. And we just didn’t want to be categorized as a low-budget writing business that would get sucked in by the lure of easy money

We would like to hear from writers who have either made the system work for them, or those who have an interesting failure story.

Jessica Mah has a good post, Why Elance Failed and Odesk Succeeded as the “eBay of Outsourcing”, that includes comments from those who have succeeded and those who have turned away from Elance.

Share your thoughts with us.