Should Bidding Below the budget Buyer is willing to spend be allowed ?

[sanjay]

We often see bids of 200$ on a project posted with a budget range of 1000-1500$ . Do you approve of this ? Lets see some voting now :)

[phenodesign]

Hi

I think it depends on projects.

Sometimes buyers could apreciate wrong the price and value much over the project.
We, as professional providers know better the real value of the work we provide, so we should know better if the amount the buyer offer is to big or to low. We should educate them about the value they receive so they should know, yes we are the best solution for them. And we should not bid on $1000 projects with $100 or $5 just to froze the project and get the buyer out of scriptlance as I saw many times here .. this will ruin SL & our market & our professional image.

And, yes, if the buyers really want to spent money in us, why not?
Let them pay us for our experience and knoweledge, as BONUS :)
We will give them more and more quality products!!!

As a related issue: I think it will be better if the minimal bid on a project will be forced at least to $15-20.

Ati

[slava]

Well, why not to offer for buyer ability to disable bidding under budget?
Would be good feature - the one of the ways that we can stop $5 guys.

[helpmeout]

Of course it should be allowed. :) The best part of this type of site is the fact that you can appeal to your buyer even with not as much feedback as everyone else by taking a cut and bidding less. I couldn't imagine someone controlling your bids this way.

I can't imagine someone saying, "I said I wanted to atleast spend $1000 not $900 grrrrr".

If anything I think it's more annoying when I say my upper max budget and people bid way over. It's aggravating because what's the point if I have not enough money you're wasting your time. :)

But I think maybe if you give the project lister the option, you'd cover everyone.

[hexadesigns]

If you programatically restrict bidding below specified budget and if the programmer is willing to do for less he will just let know the webmaster that he will do for $200 and they will settle the case mutually. You cannot monitor case by case basis ... so whats the use implementing it?
Yes you will get the exact 5% of the specified bid value in such cases contrary to what is happening now but that is the deal on your part ... the story of the programmers remains the same.

[IRN101]

I've overvalued projects and had programmers show me that there are solutions I haven't considered.

And vice versa. I've put in budgets too low and been educated. This helps me, as a webmaster, to have better communication with programmers. I am learning what their jobs entail.

I would continue to use a site that would help me in such a manner.

If I know that if I put in a bid and if I didn't know better I could be overpaying, I would think twice about using the site and/or putting in a budget at all.

[IRN101]

As a related issue: I think it will be better if the minimal bid on a project will be forced at least to $15-20.


$10 would be fine. I use smaller projects to test programmers before giving them bigger jobs. If they can impress me then they will be considered first for future projects.

And some of the projects are small and only take 10-15 minutes. :)

[skiv]

I am agree with Slava, there should be ability to put checkboxes:
1. Allow bidding below the lower price set
2. Allow bidding more than the upper price set.