Whats up with
 

Whats up with people only wanting to pay $10-$20 for a lot of hard work? The past few people on the service requests are either wanting to pay that or nothing. I talked to one guy who needed a style with flash, graphic heavy style, and he said he will pay $5, anyone else noticing this?

Unfortunately that's the way the industry is going for low-end freelancers. There are now millions of other people who can do design/programming/coding and the competition has resulted in prices going down.

$5 for a style is ridiculous though ;)

You get what you pay for to be honest.. ;)

For $5, I may just about force myself to make a new banner for them or something.

alot of people just dont think when their online doing buisness especially online. That low of money for a style, that person must be some 10year old doing buisness which got himself ripped off. Pretty much stupied like a bum standing in the middle of a highway with a sign. "Will work for any pay"

Most funny are the request:

"Need some hacks installed, some new styles, Articles, Shop and CMPS installed. Willing to pay $5-10. VB STAFF ONLY PLEASE!."

theirs just less money available, plus alot of half assed coders.

Hehe like me?? ;)

I wouldn't say that, you've been noticably helpful the past few weeks :)

Well i am just a beginner in vBulletin/php/html. Was introduced (sucked into ;)) the world of administring boards recently. Didn't know how to code 1 line of html or php.

Learned what i know today (and i feel like it isn't much yet) by reading vB sources, other hacks, etc. Starting with modifying some existing hacks, then slowly writing my own.

Most of what i have done until wasn't written to make available in public. Have just yesterday released a beta of my first public hack yesterday on vbulletin.nl, afer a request that was made here. Will try to make some improvements to that tomorrow, so i can release it here.

Nothing special i think, most people can learn what i have learned in the past few months, if they only would take the time and the interest to learn somehting themself, instead of always relying on others ;)

Hehe, better stop now :D

PS By looking at problems others have and trying to find a solution, i only learn more myself.

Time is money, and if you can find somebody to do a job for you it might be "cheaper" then doing it yourself (if you don't have the knowledge yet)