Kommentarer til: Why You Should Never Go Cheap When Outsourcing

Af: Mikael

Mikael — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 11:20:03 +0000

There is actually a reason for not going down that route and that is that I don’t know whether they are fast or slow. I would much rather specify the job and have them give me a price. If they are slow or not skilled enough to do the job the cost will not be mine to bare.

If they are very skilled and can work fast I still get what I want for the price that I am willing to pay so everyone is still happy.

By asking them to work by the hour you could a potentially huge bill waiting for you…

Af: Christian - Eee PC Bloggen

Christian - Eee PC Bloggen — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 11:15:17 +0000

OK, I see. I thought that you got their hourly rate also (like in we will need 40 hours for this project, so the price will be 400$), wich would be good for comparison, since that is what I have collected from other companies.

Af: Mikael

Mikael — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 10:51:30 +0000

Hi Christian, we agreed on $400 but I don’t think you’ll get anything out of this. Prices are often agreed upon per project and as every project is different then prices will also be different. Right?

Af: Christian - Eee PC Bloggen

Christian - Eee PC Bloggen — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 10:35:28 +0000

Your welcome.

I’m curious: Could you tell a about what prices the companys form India charges?
I might consider using them, but only if it’s extremely cheap AND very, VERY simple tasks that can’t possible go wrong (with your experience in mind)..:-) Just to possible save some time on some simple tasks.. For more complex tasks I’d better stick with locals.

Af: Mikael

Mikael — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 07:12:43 +0000

Hi Christian, thank you for the info. I’ll shoot them an email.

Af: Christian - Eee PC Bloggen

Christian - Eee PC Bloggen — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 07:03:03 +0000

Hi!

I have worked a bit with a guy called Niels Thomsen, who has recently started his own company with a guy from Moldovia, who (if I remember correctly) have been to DK studying computer science or infomatics or something like that for a year or semester. The “trick” with this setup is, that their prices are WAY lower than the average danish prices, but that the quality is at danish standards. At least I was very satisfied..

I am not really sure if they even know WordPress (or even wants to) or if they have any time free for new projetcs, but I do know they are programming in PHP and MySQL among other languages, since that is what my own projects was made with – so they have the right skills to do it..

The email I was using was: nielsthom at gmail
- I guess they have a company mail setup by now, but I don’t know it (nor the company name), but try the above..

Af: Mikael

Mikael — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 20:14:20 +0000

Well Tommy, I wouldn’t recommend that you go forward with it but I hope that you’ll have more luck with it than I did (if you decide to do it).

Af: Tommy

Tommy — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 19:12:36 +0000

Thanks for sharing this kind of stuff.

I searched for a company to do some programming for me. I got in touch with a company from India too. They are very fast to agree and tell me that they can do what I descriped.

I have just made a detailed specification of how everything should work and got a quick reply telling me that they could do that… I just got trouble beliving that, when it does not sound like they have read it at alle (just one A4-page for just one function).

I have been reluctant to let them start on the project, because I won’t want to waste neither their nore my time. If I let them start anyway, I will let you know how it ends