New Bulletin Board Auction Information
 

What is it?

      Rent a coder now has a new type of auction called the Bulletin Board auction that has more lenient posting rules than the Project auctions.  This bulletin board auction is ideal for:

• Job position postings
• Hourly rate jobs
• Announcements
• Requests for completed software
• Any other situations that do not involve the typical escrowing of funds for a fixed price project

What does it give me?

    The bulletin board project allows your posting to appear on the site to 62,000+ coders for 1 month and includes full communication via the site with all coders who post responses.  Unlike normal auctions, Coder are allowed and encouraged to provide you with contact information so that you can contact them off-site as well. Additionally, your posting is placed in the scrolling 'Newest Bid Requests" ticker on the site (where the latest 10 or so projects are displayed until they are 'knocked off' by newer submissions, and featured in that day's "Bid Requests of the Day" email that goes out 33,000+ coders.

Price:

    The price for posting a bulletin board auction is $150, but is being discounted to $50 while the program is still under development.  This compares quite favorably with the $335 for a comparable posting on Monster.com and other similar sites, which do not offer the communication facilities and online browsing of past ratings (if that is of interest to you) that Rent a Coder does.

Restrictions:

    The restrictions for this new type of auction are evolving, but they currently are as follows:

1) No postings having to deal with illegal or grey market activity, including spamming.
2) No postings that are attempting to sell a product a service to a customer.

How do I get started?

   Since this is a new feature, the setup is currently done by a person.  Just send the following to BulletinBoard@rentacoder.com:

• Your posting description (2000 characters max).  If you need more than 2000 characters, you can split it into a description of 2000 characters and an attachment which can be of any length you wish.  If you've already posted a bid request as a normal project and want it posted verbatim as a bulletin board auction, just indicate the bid request id or title instead.
• How you wish to pay (PayPal, Credit Card, snail mail check (for U.S.), international postal money order (for non-U.S.).  Payment details will be sent to you.