| The Internet has seen an explosion in so called 'lance' | | | | work for nothing just build up their portfolio, little realising |
| sites. Their service are a sort of go between to bring | | | | that they themselves will leave college and have to |
| together clients requiring projects with freelancer | | | | compete. |
| seeking work. Whilst the client uses the service for | | | | Fed up to the teeth with the freelancers 'lot' John |
| free, the freelancer is charge an ever increasing fees | | | | Thompson, a freelancer himself, decide to set up a |
| just for the priviledge of bidding for the projects. In | | | | voluntary run forum / community,(Designcrowd.com), |
| theory this seems reasonable but in practice the | | | | for freelance Designers, Programmers & Web |
| market is being destroyed by lower and lower bids as | | | | developers. In just 2 months we have been |
| more freelancers from around the globe bid against | | | | overwhelmed, he says, attracting nearly 800 members. |
| each other, which in turn is pushing down the quality of | | | | The ethos of the forum is to find jobs, projects, clients |
| the work. | | | | and offer them to the freelancers on the site for NO |
| Some of these job sites can charge up to £175 | | | | FEES. John says that the member join up is gaining |
| a month to access their database of projects. This | | | | pace daily and clients are taking a very healthy |
| situation has become critical for the freelancer. To add | | | | interest. I feel very happy that at last freelancers are |
| to all these problems there are the students offering to | | | | getting a decent deal. |