I feel that providers from some countries are being manipulated (maybe a strong word but that’s how I feel) by buyers on oDesk. What happens usually is that most buyers prefer native speaker of English and try and hire people/firms from countries like the U.S. These providers of course find it impossible to deliver a 150 articles of 500+ words each within a week’s time so they further outsource in small batches to other providers.

Providers who bid the least get the job. An excellent work is done by ‘em (in most cases) for a very meager amount. The original provider gets all the accolades and the money. Hallelujah for them.

Question is: why do buyers not realize that? Why not hire these people in the first place for a decent amount?

I am not complaining for myself. I a doing fine. Just that after reading this report on oDesk about providers from Phillipines and Pakistan being top of the list for value for money I got to wonder why these people were settling for so little.

Maybe oDesk could help in some way. I dunno.