[phantom_oracle]

The major issue I am finding with the new platforms like gigster and toptal is their negotiation strategies.

It is in their best interest to keep deal-flow high, which means that they try not to reject submitted projects and try to push the low prices onto the developer.

If a developer from India knows his chops and can run circles around JS-developers in Silicon Valley, he will also know that he can charge $100 per hour, over-deliver and still be cheaper than a bootcamp-JS guy.

Yet Toptal will negotiate a rate of $25 (or thereabouts), based on some average-pricing they use and justifying that "this is what most devs charge in your area, so $100 per hour will be too high, simply cause you're in India".

Also, this is a new account asking this question... It got me wondering whether this is some backhanded marketing-PR for gigster.