Feedback of winning bid price
In the e-mail advising rejection of a bid, could you include the price at which the bid was won. This would help to get a clear picture of the market. Thanks.
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Many thanks for your suggestion. I will pass it on to our product team.
Please let me know if I can help you with anything else.
As Mohammed states PPH does give you an idea of what other sellers are offering their services for each job. They provide this by stating whether you are 'below the amount' that, on average, others are offering in the proposal breakdowns.
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I think it's a bad "good idea", later will be a paid option as in other platforms like CrupWork, where I believe you need to pay to see how many people applied...
You already have the AVG bid showing on any job post, you can ask the buyers their budget from the clarification board, and better not to care about what others are offering...if you want get a clear picture of the market you can search Hourlies prices, check other freelancers profiles and compare.
Price depends on the client you're going to work for, and you could be hired for any reason, like in here :
https://www.peopleperhour.com/job/interior-design-3d-rendering-and-walk-through-animation-1585387
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I see what you're saying, however:
1) There's a wild fluctuation in Hourlie prices for near-identical services, depending on the cost of living in local markets/CERT level of the freelancers.
2) There's a notable increase in jobs posted where the it's clear that the poster themselves is just testing the market rate for a competent freelancer (and has no intention of awarding this, or any other job). I noticed someone only yesterday who posted several jobs at once for different skillsets, and was clearly only finding out what he'd have to pay an employee...
3) Personally, I guard my credits carefully and usually only apply for jobs that I'm invited to (the success rate is considerably higher) - if you're the among the first few bidders, that average bid is next to useless.
4) The clarification board can take anything up to three hours to update for a perfectly innocuous question about budget/word count/deadline. The job has often been awarded in that time.
I can't see PPH turning this into a paid option (or should I say "don't give them ideas!"), but the market rate would be very useful to know, if only for us to make sure we a) stay competitive, and b) aren't undervaluing our services. All kinds of factors can affect it rapidly; elections, the stock market, the time of year, and so on.
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And it's useful if you're the fifth or six freelancer to submit a proposal - not so much if you got in there first.
It's also not a great deal of use if it's a generic job which is likely to attract 40 or more proposals. I took a massive chance and bid 40% over a job's stated budget last week (and won it) - had I paid any attention to the budget, or the average, I would be doing the job for around a third of what I'll end up being paid.
Averages are useful *some* of the time. Bids at which jobs were won (visible only to those that submitted proposals) would enable freelancers to have a better idea of the wider market rate.
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