i contacted many of the developers here with good feedback and reviews. i needed ccbill's affiliate system added to the default user accounts with integration of sign up forms and some other custom features as well as completely separate user accounts for membership only users. all of them told me they could not do this work and a couple gave me some outrageous quote and time frame.

i looked on odesk, found a great team the first day and hired them. $13 an hour and 2 weeks later i had everything see more i asked for and it works flawlessly. i was able to monitor their work and talk with them on odesk during the process. we were able to discuss options and problems the whole time. i only paid weekly as the work had been completed. because everything was monitored and recorded by odesk, they could not get away with doing a poor job or stealing money. odesk does a great job of moderating the buyers and developers. do you get that here?

i realize they are from 3rd world countries and their rates are cheaper. that is why you are mostly seeing the developers complaining about working on odesk. i fully understand and unfortunately there is no way of getting around that.