{"id":405,"date":"2009-07-02T13:28:24","date_gmt":"2009-07-02T17:28:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rakkar.org\/blog\/?p=405"},"modified":"2009-07-02T13:28:24","modified_gmt":"2009-07-02T17:28:24","slug":"75-of-rent-a-coder-bidders-didnt-read-what-they-were-bidding-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rakkar.org\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/07\/02\/75-of-rent-a-coder-bidders-didnt-read-what-they-were-bidding-on\/","title":{"rendered":"75% of Rent-a-coder bidders didn&#8217;t read what they were bidding on"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tI posted the following bid request on Rent-A-Coder<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rentacoder.com\/RentACoder\/misc\/BidRequests\/ShowBidRequest.asp?lngBidRequestId=1203368\">PHP Directory Server 2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>At the end of the bid I wrote<br \/>\n&#8220;To show that you read the requirements, write &#8216;I read the requirements&#8217; in your bid. Bids that do not have this will not be considered as valid bids.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I got 8 bids in the next 12 hours. Of those 8, 6 did not write &#8220;I read the requirements&#8221; Not surprisingly, of those that did not read the requirements, 5 were in 3rd world counties (<a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.rakkar.org\/blog\/?p=193\">the people you should never hire<\/a>).\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I posted the following bid request on Rent-A-Coder PHP Directory Server 2 At the end of the bid I wrote &#8220;To show that you read the requirements, write &#8216;I read the requirements&#8217; in your bid. Bids that do not have this will not be considered as valid bids.&#8221; I got 8 bids in the next [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakkar.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakkar.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakkar.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakkar.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakkar.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rakkar.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakkar.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakkar.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakkar.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}