Your ideas to make another £50-100 a week.

[witko999]

I've been doing the matched betting since I read this thread, using the guide mentioned above. So far I've placed 6 'bets' and made about £90. As long as you don't make a mistake it's easy enough.

[Wacky Racer]

GTIR said:

shakotan said:

I must be an utter cock then.

And you don't even own an Audi.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIQ-283wKgg

[LucreLout]

Type R Tom said:

I've had a go on the freelance site. Don't fancy my chances, some of them are ridiculously small. There is no way you can compete with someone in Asia will to take pennies! Will see what happens.

I also had a look, just for interest value, and you're entirely right: The prices are shocking.

Most of the jobs seem to be from spammers or scammers after tooling to make their job easier. Automating capcha entries, constant supply of what's app accounts? Bit obvious, no?

The quality of the output is probably very low, but given the technological intelligence of most clients is on par with that of a caveman, I can imagine many small businesses being happy with their $30 website.

[Type R Tom]

LucreLout said:

Type R Tom said:

I've had a go on the freelance site. Don't fancy my chances, some of them are ridiculously small. There is no way you can compete with someone in Asia will to take pennies! Will see what happens.

I also had a look, just for interest value, and you're entirely right: The prices are shocking.

Most of the jobs seem to be from spammers or scammers after tooling to make their job easier. Automating capcha entries, constant supply of what's app accounts? Bit obvious, no?

The quality of the output is probably very low, but given the technological intelligence of most clients is on par with that of a caveman, I can imagine many small businesses being happy with their $30 website.

Yep, this is my most recent favourite

I could like a a competent structural Engineer with a rich background of Archicad and Autocad preferably structural design for my project.
It a simple project but I have all the structural calculations done and you will have to provide the drawings in Autocad.
My budget is 10 $.
Happy bidding and provide samples of your past works.

What could possibly go wrong!

[200bhp]

callmedave said:

guffhoover said:

Depending on your skill set pick one:

https://www.freelancer.co.uk/job/

Wow! Not what I had in mind but this looks very good! Will sign up and bid on a few tonight. Thanks for this.

Just signed myself up for this too.

There seem to be a lot of Indians on there willing to work for next to nothing which could be a problem although I've put a lot of effort into a couple of bids, explaining what I can offer so we'll see!

[Hoofy]

200bhp said:

callmedave said:

guffhoover said:

Depending on your skill set pick one:

https://www.freelancer.co.uk/job/

Wow! Not what I had in mind but this looks very good! Will sign up and bid on a few tonight. Thanks for this.

Just signed myself up for this too.

There seem to be a lot of Indians on there willing to work for next to nothing which could be a problem although I've put a lot of effort into a couple of bids, explaining what I can offer so we'll see!

Be interesting to see how it goes. These sites always seem to be a race to the bottom. Fine if you had nothing better to do so you'll get a few quid here and there I suppose.

[200bhp]

Hoofy said:

Be interesting to see how it goes. These sites always seem to be a race to the bottom. Fine if you had nothing better to do so you'll get a few quid here and there I suppose.

I've pitched myself toward the top of the bids by quoting based on how long I think it'll take but explained what I can offer and what my experience is etc. We'll see what happens.

[DonkeyApple]

Hoofy said:

200bhp said:

callmedave said:

guffhoover said:

Depending on your skill set pick one:

https://www.freelancer.co.uk/job/

Wow! Not what I had in mind but this looks very good! Will sign up and bid on a few tonight. Thanks for this.

Just signed myself up for this too.

There seem to be a lot of Indians on there willing to work for next to nothing which could be a problem although I've put a lot of effort into a couple of bids, explaining what I can offer so we'll see!

Be interesting to see how it goes. These sites always seem to be a race to the bottom. Fine if you had nothing better to do so you'll get a few quid here and there I suppose.

I suspect it is relatively self regulating though. As in, those posting work that is worth doing aren't going to interested in dealing with a third world bid that will agree to everything, say yes to everything and then not ever deliver what you've agreed to.

Our industry went through a spate of trying to use these cheap Indian IT entities and it was a total disaster. I'm sure the decent contracts want someone they can pick up the phone to and have a sane conversation with. And certainly those jobs that are looking for the lowest bid won't be worth getting involved with.

[Hoofy]

I agree to an extent, DA. It really depends on who is using the online service and whether their eyes get distracted by the plastic diamonds glittering at them or not. As you say, it makes more sense to pay more but also be able to speak to someone who is within punching distance - if you have the budget.

[DonkeyApple]

Hoofy said:

I agree to an extent, DA. It really depends on who is using the online service and whether their eyes get distracted by the plastic diamonds glittering at them or not. As you say, it makes more sense to pay more but also be able to speak to someone who is within punching distance - if you have the budget.

When it comes to IT it is absolutely essential to have them within punching distance. . They just don't get their work done without a grownup in the room.

[Pesty]

There was an interesting piece on R4 a few weeks ago.

People making plenty of cash formsperm donation.

What about drug trials

[Hoofy]

Pesty said:

There was an interesting piece on R4 a few weeks ago.

People making plenty of cash formsperm donation.

What about drug trials

Drug trials: making bloaty head syndrome a reality since 2006!

[200bhp]

Well, I thought I'd come back here having found freelancer.com through this thread.

Its be no good to me from a work point of view as it is full of people who are wiling to work for less than I am. However, because of that, we have started using it to get things done at work. For example, we got a guy in Latvia to make a CAD model of something that would have taken us a couple of weeks. It took him slightly longer but it cost us just $250 - It takes us just 2 hours to run up that kind of cost doing stuff in-house.

We've also had a simple program written and a couple of excel templates created, each of which took a couple of days, a few emails to and fro and cost a $100.

You have to be careful to sort the rubbish bids from those that are worthwhile but its turning out pretty well for us.

[lukefreeman]

200bhp said:

Well, I thought I'd come back here having found freelancer.com through this thread.

Its be no good to me from a work point of view as it is full of people who are wiling to work for less than I am. However, because of that, we have started using it to get things done at work. For example, we got a guy in Latvia to make a CAD model of something that would have taken us a couple of weeks. It took him slightly longer but it cost us just $250 - It takes us just 2 hours to run up that kind of cost doing stuff in-house.

We've also had a simple program written and a couple of excel templates created, each of which took a couple of days, a few emails to and fro and cost a $100.

You have to be careful to sort the rubbish bids from those that are worthwhile but its turning out pretty well for us.

Be very careful with CAD stuff..........

I'll assume his rate is that low due to hooky versions of NX/SW/Catia etc, and if that's the case, there can be parts of the save file which indicates this.......

[wack]

I don't know how it would work with you buying from somebody using pirated software (if that's the case) but the penalties can be high for businesses using it

http://www.computing.co.uk/ctg/news/2104439/belfas...