I was a coder in RentACoder, one of the best coders. I earned about 15000$ in 3 month with completing huge projects, I was only 1 person and I finished so hard projects in this 3 month.
Everything was good, until I got a project from an unprofessional and picky buyer in RentACoder, he was good for RAC, because he accepted my bid in his first experience which was 1400$. The project was about coding an application for TV on PC. I was going to create a software which will show all available internet channels and will play them with Windows Media Player, channels with MMS stream link.
I told to buyer I'll not create channels list and he said ok and accepted my bid after my this message. Then I started coding it and on the end, buyer said my program have not good channels list and details etc.
That made me completely mad and out of control, I told buyer I'll NOT GATHER list of channels, I did a favor to him and I downloaded a channels list from Internet to show that my code works and I told him later you can change it. Then I was a bit nervous and used some words to show my angriness. Buyer sent project into Arbitration.
We was in arbitration for a month, in EACH TIME! Each time! Yes! Each time! I told to arbitrator and later to technical arbitrator, CHECK OUR MESSAGES! Check our messages! CHECK OUR MESSAGES LOG in RAC.
They says don't go offline communication and use RAC, but they never check messages on RAC. I said more than 20 times to check our messages log, he accepted that I'll not gather list of channels and he should do it, but instead of doing this, buyer and arbitrators was ALWAYS looking to find a foul or offside from myside. They was in deep search together.
RAC arbitrator was doing that to keep this buyer and ask him to bring more business to them and buyer was going to steal my code and use it in his own and don't pay anything for it.
But why? I don't know... I had 15000$ in RAC for 3 month, I asked them to send my money when I lost that arbitration and my expert gurantee which was 140$, otherwise I was going to keep my money till it reach to 20000$ or more! But RAC is always with buyer, they are with money...
If only 10 second arbitrator was going to check messages log she was determined that buyer agreed to gather list of channels and was going to award me arbitration, but she was looking to find an offside or foul from my side.
Finally she did, in such huge project with a lot of codes... I coded entire application, in middle of my codes I used only 1 COMPLETELY FREE, 100% FREE (for all coders and I asked it from author of code) code. It was a module, which I used it to control windows volume, when user changes volume in our TV software, it was going to change windows audio settings with that class module.
She said coder used 10 lines of completely free (which ALL CODERS in the entire world uses such codes, no any coder goes to code ENTIRE project 100% line by line, because if I was going to do so, I was going to charge buyer 10000$ for such project) code, so I lost arbitration, 1 month working on that project, 140$ expert guarantee and everything! I lost everything! SHE EVEN closed my account, she said I used 10 lines of 100% free available on web code so I'll close your account and she did it.
I was ranked 300th and I had 2 huge projects on hold, one for 8000$, other for 6000$. (bids was 4000$ and 5000$ but buyer was going to award other parts as bonus)
She closed my account so I lost my account, my money, my ranking EVERYTHING in a night, I lost my life and my work in a night with an unprofessional arbitrators and buyers.
I'll never use RAC again, I suggest to all coders to keep out of RAC, except they have economical problems and they HAD to work in RAC. Otherwise NEVER use RAC, NEVER!!!
Javaguru
Hamburg
Germany
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