New system aimed primarily at matching newer sellers with buyers

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Carl

So now it seems I have to wait two hours before I can bid for a job. This is extremely unfair. Not only do experienced creatives/designers have to compete with an unfair playing field, ie people offered to do a job for £10 when it is clearly worth £100, we are now not allowed to bid for jobs as soon as they appear on PPH. What kind of system is this?!

Awful. Unfair. Unprofessional. Discriminatory.

Regards

C. Howe

 

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  • Code and More LLP

    @Paul, I found one feature request for a time tracker, and the person who requested that later changed their mind, so that thread as so far got comments from three people who like the idea, and three who are dead against it:

    http://support.peopleperhour.com/entries/42911177-Time-Tracker

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  • Code and More LLP

    The feature request for a time tracker

    http://support.peopleperhour.com/entries/42911177-Time-Tracker

    has got comments from three people in favour and three against, and the person who started the thread has changed their minds. Hardly a lot of demand! The demand really comes from people doing a particular type of work. Maybe this is a feature for supertasker rather than PPH?

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  • Code and More LLP

    I suppose you should stop the tracker before reading email etc. Of course mistakes can be made and it also just occurred to me that things like pop-up notifications could have something confidential in them. Running it in a VM would address all that, but then it makes life harder and work slower and that would have to be reflected in what we charge clients.

    On top of all that, this software needs to be absolutely reliable. I posted another message that has been held for moderation,  but the gist of it was that the demand for this is fairly uncertain. I think PPH are hoping to win business that would otherwise go to competitors who do have tracker integration, but they are probably going to lose business as sellers who object to it drop out.

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  • Paul

    They are probably going to lose business as sellers who object to it drop out.

    Certainly.

    Do you imagine that these trackers are useful in properly funded professional relationships, or with low value jobs where there is no professional trust?

    A bad day for me when I saw what PPH had done.

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  • Paul

    I assume that they will do the same as the freelance sites that already do this, so we only run the software when doing an hourly paid job

    I won't be running that software under any circumstance.

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  • Paul

    It it just me or has it really been deleted?

    It's gone.

    LOL, back to the good old days.

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  • Code and More LLP

    @David, you mean the feature request? I just get a 404 page saying it does not exist.

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  • Paul

    OK, it's Christmas eve and this thread is the closest thing to a PPH community.

    Merry Christmas everyone.

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  • Moira K

    Thank you, Paul. The same to you and everyone. And a Prosperous New Year to us all!

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  • Paul

    Here we have a quality communication from a very reputable company:

    This will help you make easy money FAST

    This is the kind of subject line I associate with scammers .

    It came from PPH. Today.

    You guys just dredge the barrel.

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  • Code and More LLP

    Looks like PPH are listening at last. The email problem is fixed. Perhaps if we get a confirmation that the stupid mandatory metering software has been dropped the prospects for future work from PPH would look a lot better?

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  • Paul

    Before Christmas Michael and Pilar seemed to be trying to engage with people here, but since then we are back to tumbleweed.

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  • Paul

    I guess Michael & Pilar are still off on Necker island with Xenios - they sure seem to have abandoned engagement in 2015.

    Today I had another classy email form PPH : "Here are some legit leads for your business"

    It's like Arthur Dailey is in charge.

    I posted a clarification message on a job and clearly the buyer didn't like it. PPH support did the usual lazy thing and gave a completely inappropriate reason for rejecting the message. They also conveniently don't list the message either.

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  • Paul

    My message was deleted because the buyer didn't like it much. An electrician wanted to pay £10 for an animated drawing to his specification. I pointed out that I'd struggle to get an electrician anywhere near my house for £10 and did he think £8 or so was a fair amount to pay. I said that if he did he could come around to my house and I'd pay him £20 for his time.

    The reason for not publishing the message? "commission only based jobs are not allowed"

    LOL

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  • Paul

    Ooh check out the clarification board..

    Job 656982

    My message got rejected. Look what the buyer had to say to some others..

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  • Paul

    .. also my rejection message invites me to send the message again. It's impossible to do so!

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  • Malcolm

    He's had plenty of people prepared to do it has he............ well, there's only ONE bid on it at the moment.  I'm guessing he means people outside of the site then??????

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  • Malcolm

    And if I'm right....... how come he's on here then?

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  • Paul

    He has another job 651811 . Same thing plus wordpress site.

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  • Paul

    Well, the first job has now been sanitised and his comment removed.

    In many ways, I feel that now misrepresents what that buyer is like. My comment on the other thread is still there.

    This is not the kind of buyer we used to have on PPH.

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  • Paul

    I think this is a job worthy of interest: 657532 Hmm.

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  • Pilar

    Hi All, 

    Happy New Year. I couldn't log in last week but just to let you know I am present and engagement on here is a top priority for 2015. 

    Glad you like the new email feature. Which was top requested :-) 

    Many Thanks, 

    Pilar x 

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  • Permanently deleted user

    Hello and a Very Happy New year to everyone.

    I was on annual leave and back in action as of today. For those that have not seen it here is an update on the new email management. 

    https://www.peopleperhour.com/settings/notifications

     

    Hope you all have a prosperous and amazing year!

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  • Paul

    It's not just the copywriters that wince at what goes into PPH communications..

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  • Paul

    Today's email from PPH selling me Hourlies is entitled 'Funny photos inside!'.

    Not exactly what I would expect of a professional organisation. Very amateurish.

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  • Paul

    Funny photos inside!

    The hourlie email has one hourlie featuring a silly cat Photo and funny facebook images at £2 and another hourlie featuring responsive wordpress design at £245.

    Whoever thought these two would ever fit together and appeal to the same market?

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  • Deb C

    My daily email is offering me unlimited monthly revisions to my Wordpress site for only $69 through their new Supertasker feature. I haven't received an email yet that is in any way relevant to what I offer on PPH yet they seem hell bent on trying to make me take them up on this amazing offer....

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    Hello Deb,

    We are reaching out to introduce a new service we've launched under the PeoplePerHour umbrella for owners and managers of WordPress sites.

    Under our new SuperTasker brand, we offer unlimited WordPress fixes for your website for just $69 per month, all done by top-rated, highly curated WordPress experts.

    The process is super simple:

    1. You describe your issue briefly
    2. We get an expert on it right away
    3. You get the fix within the hour

    Tasks start on average in less than 5 minutes and delivered in 1 hour, so imagine it as a turbo-charged version of PPH for all your niggling little tasks!

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  • Paul

    Yes, I've had an ignored that one.

    Lucy Clark is often trying to get me to 'try something new'. Unfortunately the content doesn't match the promise of the subject..

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  • Malcolm

    I agree that the email titles are often quite odd and sometimes funny, but tbh those emails that we keep getting from the likes of Jessica, Emma and whoever else sends them, tbh I just remove them from my inbox and think nothing else of them.  @Deb -  all they are trying to do is promote services to people, regardless of whether the recipients are interested or not.  But what they are not doing is filtering the emails, so that only the most appropriate people receive them.  That's my take anyway......

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  • Malcolm

    'so long as the cash keeps rolling in, it'll do, laddy.'

    I admit it was a rather long time ago, but I was always taught at both college and uni that bare minimum standards were simply not good enough......... I am beginning to think that things have changed somewhat.

     

     

     

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