Software to build a C2C reverse auction site (like elance.com)?

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Software to build a C2C reverse auction site (like elance.com)?

shenbo

1:28 pm on Sep 29, 2003 (gmt 0)

Hi there,

A friend and I are thinking of starting a website, where service providers can advertise their services and users can post projects. It will be pretty much like www.elance.com.

We don't want to implement the site by ourselves, so we have two options:
1. purchase a reverse auction system building software and do some custom configurations. This might be cheap comparing to option 2, but we may not get the source code which will be important. Anyone here know any good software to buy? or any free software to download?

2. find some company to do it for us. It may cost a lot of money. I wonder if someone here would kindly recommend some companies to do that.

Thanks a lot,

bcolflesh

1:32 pm on Sep 29, 2003 (gmt 0)

Check out:

hotscripts.com/Detailed/23873.html

shenbo

1:42 pm on Sep 29, 2003 (gmt 0)

hi bcolflesh, thanks for the info. hmmmmmm...the software seems a little bit expensive for us.

bcolflesh

1:49 pm on Sep 29, 2003 (gmt 0)

This one is substantially less:

hotscripts.com/Detailed/24739.html

shenbo

2:01 pm on Sep 29, 2003 (gmt 0)

thanks again

rogerd

2:12 pm on Sep 29, 2003 (gmt 0)

Hi, Shenbo, welcome to WebmasterWorld! If you don't want to implement yourself, you could always try advertising your needs at a site like, ummmmm, elance.com. ;) You might find an offshore bargain...

shenbo

2:24 pm on Sep 29, 2003 (gmt 0)

hi Rogerd, nice to meet ya here. We thought of posting the project on elance.com, but we heard a lot of bad things about buying services on elance.com...not sure if the quality can be assured:-)

rogerd

7:03 pm on Sep 29, 2003 (gmt 0)

My personal opinion on elance (or similar) buying is that if you deal with a coder with more than a few completed projects, with high ratings, and with demonstrated experience in your area of interest, you'll be OK. The money escrow should keep everyone honest. You can still get burned, of course, but you can definitely limit your risk. (I know it's tough for service providers to develop a history if everyone wants experience, but you don't want to test the rookies.)

(Nothing's perfect. I had one project where the programmer I hired must have developed some personal issues, and what had been uniformly great reviews turned into poor ones. I got it done, but it took longer than expected.)